{"id":129,"date":"2013-02-01T16:36:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T15:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/?p=129"},"modified":"2013-02-01T16:38:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T15:38:31","slug":"editing-with-sauerbraten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/2013\/02\/01\/editing-with-sauerbraten\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing with Sauerbraten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sauerbraten.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cube 2: Sauerbraten<\/strong> <\/a>is a free multiplayer &amp; singleplayer first person shooter, the successor of the Cube\u00a0FPS.<\/p>\n<p>Much like the original Cube, the aim of this game is fun, old school deathmatch gameplay and also to allow map\/geometry <a href=\"http:\/\/sauerbraten.org\/docs\/editing.html\" target=\"_blank\">editing <\/a>to be done cooperatively in-game.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: monospace\"><code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EsTkLZhMI0I\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" fvars=\"fs=1\" \/]<\/code><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This article is based on the<a href=\"http:\/\/sauerbraten.org\/docs\/editing.html\" target=\"_blank\"> editing section<\/a> of the Sauerbraten website. I must admit I approached this with some dread after poor editing\u00a0experiences\u00a0with quite a few FPS I was less than convinced that an open source game could get it right, boy was I wrong. Here are the basic steps for creating a map from scratch<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Load Sauerbraten<\/li>\n<li>Load a map, any map will do.<\/li>\n<li>press &#8220;e&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Editing in Sauerbraten is done live on the map, it works with a series of cubes than can be made larger or smaller or deformed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scroll wheel down &#8211; create a cube off of that face<\/li>\n<li>Scroll wheel up &#8211; destroy a cude<\/li>\n<li>Spacebar &#8211; unselect currently selected area<\/li>\n<li>G &#8211; Change the size of the &#8220;selection cube&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Y &#8211; Change the texture of the current selection<\/li>\n<li>Middle mouse button &#8211; Deform a corner when used with scroll wheel<\/li>\n<li>F &#8211; Deform a face, useful for making platforms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To create a new map go to the editor then press &#8220;t&#8221; and enter <strong>\/newmap 7 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To save a map go to the editor then press &#8220;t&#8221; and enter <strong>\/savemap mapname<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cube 2: Sauerbraten is a free multiplayer &amp; singleplayer first person shooter, the successor of the Cube\u00a0FPS. Much like the original Cube, the aim of this game is fun, old school deathmatch gameplay and also to allow map\/geometry editing to be done cooperatively in-game. [kml_flashembed movie=&#8221;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EsTkLZhMI0I&#8221; width=&#8221;425&#8243; height=&#8221;344&#8243; allowfullscreen=&#8221;true&#8221; fvars=&#8221;fs=1&#8243; \/]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6468,243],"tags":[752,17238],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-development","category-software","tag-editing","tag-map"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}