Level Editor

[cuddigan]

The Delver level editor is shipped along with the game, you can find it in the steamapps folder. To get to it, go to your library and right click delver and press "properties". Then go to the "local files" tab and click "Browse local files" and launch delvedit.

Mobyduck made an awesome Editor guide, check it out: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=178004868

Here's a quick command list:

ESC: Unselect an area
Mouse click and drag: Select an area
1: Carve
Z / Shift + Z: Move floor / ceiling up or down
R: Select corner, edge. Once selected use Z to shift up and down
DEL/Backspace: Delete selected area
T / Shift + T: Spin floor or ceiling texture

With an entity selected:
ESC: Unselect
Click and drag to move
Shift + click and drag to snap to X & Y
X / Y / Z - Clamp to specific axis
ALT + drag: Duplicate object
Right click entity -> properties to edit entity options

Miscellaneous:
P: Toggle player mode (run around and test collision)
L: Toggle lighting
B: Toggle visible collision bounding boxes

[Caiuz]

how test my level ?

[cuddigan]

Delver loads the dungeon definition from assets/data/dungeons.dat. There are entries in that file for each dungeon floor, the fields you'll care about are these two:

...
generated: false,
levelFileName:"levels/myawesomelevel.dat"
...

'generated' tells the game whether or not to randomly generate the floor, 'levelFileName' points at the level file that you saved that it's going to load if generated is set to false. There's a dungeons-testing.dat file that is a good example of a dungeon with one static level.

You'll need to make sure your level has a Player Start marker in it, otherwise the game won't know where to put the player when your level loads if it's the first entry.

Once you have a dungeons.dat that points at your level, you can run Delver again and start a new game to see your level.

[DaBeezleBoy]

Love this so far, but REALLY needs expanded help on the editor. I fiddled with it, got a bit done and then pressed 'p' and I just got a blank white screen of a whole lot of nothingness. Not gonna complain because HEY its beta right?

Really enjoying this, played through several times (actually made it to level 9 on first go... but only 3 on following trips :/ ) excellent game, excellent work, just please please please a more indepth guide to using the Level Editor, and perhaps modding as well. I'd be happy to DONATE more money for that. (Bought this game for myself and friends)

By the way... its a pipe dream and I know it, but, Local co op multiplayer? Possibility?

Stay cool.

[Caiuz]

cuddigan původně napsal:

Delver loads the dungeon definition from assets/data/dungeons.dat. There are entries in that file for each dungeon floor, the fields you'll care about are these two:
...
generated: false,
levelFileName:"levels/myawesomelevel.dat"
...

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excuse me , but i not find dungeons.dat , on my directory there is delver.exe and delvedit.jar ..where it is ?

[pastuh]

I think u need open editor.jar with winrar and there u can find...
Edit: Download Assets and you can find there..

[cuddigan]

pastuh původně napsal:

I think u need open editor.jar with winrar and there u can find...
Edit: Download Assets and you can find there..

Yeah, check out the 'Quick modding guide' sticky, you'll find the current assets folder to download and some help on how it works.

[Tokyo Banana]

I have about 35 hours on this game, Most of it from map building.

[ordeille⚸ ♘]

One cool idea for the level editor would be the ability to make "dungeon chunks" that will show up as a part of the randomly generated game.

[cuddigan]

Mr. Knavely původně napsal:

One cool idea for the level editor would be the ability to make "dungeon chunks" that will show up as a part of the randomly generated game.

You can do that right now actually :)

All of the dungeon generation is done by picking stuff out of that generators.zip file. Inside it has a folder structure for every dungeon theme.

Adding a new random dungeon chunk is basically unzipping generator.zip, adding a new level .dat file to the right folder, and zipping it back up.

Dungeon tiles are all 17x17, I would load one of the existing dungeon chunks that is the right size and start from there.

[bargain]

Can we assume we will be seeing a Workshop integration? It would be awesome and would increase the life span of the game.

[cuddigan]

I'd love to get Workshop integration into the full release, or at least there shortly after.

[Phen]

Hold on, im confused
so how do i test my level.?

[bargain]

From what I read, if you want to test a full level (instead of just a chunk), you have to edit the "dungeons.dat" inside "assets\data\". Set one of the levels' "generated" as "false" and choose your level by writing its path after "levelFileName". This would force the game to always generate your level, instead of a random one.

[Phen]

Mobyduck původně napsal:

From what I read, if you want to test a full level (instead of just a chunk), you have to edit the "dungeons.dat" inside "assets\data\". Set one of the levels' "generated" as "false" and choose your level by writing its path after "levelFileName". This would force the game to always generate your level, instead of a random one.

but how do i edit that?

[bargain]

First you need the assets folder, the link can be found here.

After you download that and save it into your Delver folder (the same one where the executable of the game is), you open the files I mentioned. To edit them I use Notepad++, but I think any text editor should suffice.

The "dungeons.dat" seems to be responsible for the overall generation of maps, so editing this file will change all your games new generated maps.