HPL1/Content Creation Chapter 5 - Revision history

Iamrealife: /* 5.4 Scenes */

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5.4 Scenes

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5.4 Scenes

Iamrealife at 15:24, 29 March 2023

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Iamrealife: /* 5. HPL Helper */

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5. HPL Helper

Iamrealife: /* 5.7 Sound */

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5.7 Sound

Iamrealife: /* 5.1 General */

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5.1 General

Iamrealife at 20:45, 28 March 2023

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Iamrealife: /* 5.3.2 View */

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5.3.2 View

Iamrealife: /* 5.4 Scenes */

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5.4 Scenes

Mudbill: Fixed broken links

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 Convert does nothing.
-The following keys are used in side the viewer:
+The following keys are used inside the viewer:
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 |'''W,A,S,D:'''||Movement.

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 The StartPos box was meant to be used to define the starting position for the viewer camera, if one of your start areas was called something like "link02" you would input that and the viewer would start from that position. The functionality was never implemented and does nothing no matter what you put into the box.
 The following keys are used in side the viewer:
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 The following keys are used in side the viewer:
 {| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
-|'''W,A,S,D'''||Movement.
+|'''W,A,S,D:'''||Movement.
 |-
-|'''Mouse'''||Look around.
+|'''Mouse:'''||Look around.
 |-
-|'''1.'''||Toggles shadow modes, on, static only, off
+|'''1:'''||Toggles shadow modes, on, static only, off
 |-
-|'''2.'''||Turn room/portal debug graphics on and off. In this mode the rooms are randomly colored according to the order they where created. The portals are colored red and have a normal in the same color to witch the room it belongs to. At the end of the portal normal is a sphere in the same color as the room the portal connects to.
+|'''2:'''||Turn room/portal debug graphics on and off. In this mode the rooms are randomly colored according to the order they where created. The portals are colored red and have a normal in the same color to witch the room it belongs to. At the end of the portal normal is a sphere in the same color as the room the portal connects to.
 |-
-|'''3.'''||Turns light bounding boxes on/off.
+|'''3:'''||Turns light bounding boxes on/off.
 |-
-|'''4.'''||Turns collision geometry on/off.
+|'''4:'''||Turns collision geometry on/off.
 |-
-|'''5.'''||Turns bounding boxes for entities on and off.
+|'''5:'''||Turns bounding boxes for entities on and off.
 |-
-|'''6.'''||Turns sound colliders on / off.
+|'''6:'''||Turns sound colliders on / off.
 |-
-|'''7.'''||Turns line rendering on / off. This is useful for optimizing portals.
+|'''7:'''||Turns line rendering on / off. This is useful for optimizing portals.
 |-
-|'''8.'''||Turns show areas on / off.
+|'''8:'''||Turns show areas on / off.
 |-
-|'''9.'''||Displays Object names.
+|'''9:'''||Displays Object names.
 |-
-|'''B'''||Bloom on / off
+|'''B:'''||Bloom on / off
 |-
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 '''Category:'''<br />Allows you to add, rename or remove a text category. It can be anything like MainMenu, Notebook, Global, Items, etc.
-'''Entry:'''<br />The entry is used to name your text depending on how it will be used (I.E AlkoholDesc), categories are used a way to organize these entries without losing track. You can add and remove entries.
+'''Entry:'''<br />The entry is used to name your text depending on how it will be used (I.E AlkoholDesc), categories are used a way to organize these entries without losing track. You can add, remove and rename entries.
-'''Text Entry:'''<br />This defines the actual text to be displayed.
+'''Text Entry:'''<br />You type words into this big white box, this defines the actual text to be displayed in-game.
 '''Name:'''<br />Allows you to change the name of a text entry if you're not happy with it or made a typo somewhere.

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-<br /><br />
+<br />
 ===5.3 Models===
 This part of the program is used to view and convert model files.
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 Just remember that the changes aren’t updated until the file is saved!
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 ===5.6 Physics Materials===
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 </syntaxhighlight>
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 ===5.7 Sound===
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 '''Note:''' When looped sounds are overridden by another, the looped sound is started over once a channel gets free. This shouldn’t be any problem for most sounds though. You have 32 audio channels to work with.
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+<br /><br />

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 Valid values are 0 – 255. Higher value means higher priority.
-'''Note:''' When looped sounds are overridden by another, the looped sound is started over once a channel gets free. This shouldn’t be any problem for most sounds though.
+'''Note:''' When looped sounds are overridden by another, the looped sound is started over once a channel gets free. This shouldn’t be any problem for most sounds though. You have 32 audio channels to work with.
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 ===5.1 General===
-HPL-Helper is a front-end for various programs and an editing tool for various engine purposes. Latest version of the .Net Framework must be installed to get it working. See [[HPL1/Getting started|HPL1/Content Creation Chapter 6]] for details and download location.
+HPL-Helper is a front-end for various programs and an editing tool for various engine purposes. Latest version of the .Net Framework must be installed to get it working. See [[HPL1/Getting started|Getting started]] for details and download location.
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 ===5.2 Settings===
 Under this tab various settings can be altered.

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 Under this tab a scene can be loaded and viewed. This works exactly the same way as with models (described the previous chapter) apart from a few small things.
-Beside the View button you can fill in the start pos. This will specify at what start point the camera will start at, you are using the _start entities for this, if you have a "_start_location1" entity in you map you enter "location1" to make that your starting point. If this is blank or the start position doesn’t exist the camera will be placed at (0,0,0).
+The View button allows you to see your map exactly how it will look in the game.
 The following keys are used in side the viewer:
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 For the time being there are no nice menus so one has to deal with using keys to toggle features.
 {| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
 |'''1:'''||Turn shadows on /off.
 |-
-|'''2.'''||Show/hide colliders.
+|'''2:'''||Show/hide colliders.
 |-
-|'''3.'''||Turn physics on /off.
+|'''4:'''||Change animation.
 |-
-|'''4.'''||Change animation.
+|'''5:'''||Start/stop spinning lights.
 |-
-|'''5.'''||Start/stop spinning lights.
+|'''6:'''||Show/hide bounding box.
 |-
-|'''6.'''||Show/hide bounding box.
+|'''B:'''||Bloom on / off
 |-
-|'''R'''||Turn ragdoll on/off if present.
+|'''R:'''||Turn ragdoll on/off if present.
 |-
 |}