Who wants to try the map Editor?

[Pintea]

We're still working on Workshop support, but if anyone dares to try the editor ahead of time and without any tutorial, please email me at pintea (at) inthekillhouse (dot) com
I'm sure you guys will have tons of maps ready to upload to workshop once we roll that in next week :)

[Pintea]

Well ♥♥♥♥ emails, just download it from here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fn13oz51l19aner/action_squad_editor.zip?dl=0

No tutorials yet (and I'm unsure we'll have the time to do it), but if you open one of the maps from the the game you'll eventually catch on.
Workshop support will be coming soon, you'll have the chance to share your maps with the entire world then.


Later edit:

To play/edit:
- go to where the game is installed, usually something like
D:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Door Kickers - Action Squad\media\levels\missions
- open the editor and choose a map from that folder, the tilesets will be loaded automatically


Now you can either modify a map from the original game, or save it as a new map.

Let's say you save it as a newmap: mycoolmap.dkas
To see it in game, open missions.xml and add it like <Mission nChapter="6" nLevel="3" sSource="mycoolmap.dkas" />

[Rattler]

Tutorials are good if theyre done by the Community, as they always discover more stuff that the devs didnt think of (using).

[Pintea]

Agreed!
We'll probably just write some succinct technical stuff together with the Workshop update, but the community has always done it better.

[bullettrain101]

Sweet, downloading now

[Fantastic_LZwho]

emmm,strange,why I can't open the "ActionSquadEd.exe"

[Sr K4SiNO]

i preffer to wait for the "official" release,i hope soon :D

[bullettrain101]

Well I'm stuck. I can't move the grid left right up or down. Great.

[Gauthier4]

But after making file ->load tileset-> what is thetileset ,where is he?

[Pintea]

You should load one of the maps from the game, the tileset will be loaded automatically.

[Gauthier4]

Thanks =)

[BlackWhale]

i just downloaded it now trying to work out how it works !

[Rabid Urko]

Bit late noticing this post, cheers, ill have a play with it.
Ahhh there isnt any way of testing a map we make yet right now ? (i realise not long to official launch)

Great editor btw and seems powerful but easy to use.

[Pintea]

Of course you can play what you're building. You just can't share it until the Steam Workshop support is up.

To play/edit:
- go to: Door Kickers - Action Squad\media\levels\missions
- open a map from the game, the tilesets will be loaded automatically

Now you can either modify a map from the original game, or save it as a new map.

Let's say you save it as a newmap: mycoolmap.dkas
To see it in game, open missions.xml and add it like <Mission nChapter="6" nLevel="3" sSource="mycoolmap.dkas" />

Once we add workshop support this will be much easier.

[Rabid Urko]

"To see it in game, open missions.xml and add it like <Mission nChapter="6" nLevel="3" sSource="mycoolmap.dkas" />" Cheers, it was this bit i would never have worked out myself.

[TheSuit]

Thank you