HPL2/Tutorials

This page lists a large amount of tutorials, most of which are community-made.

Don't know where to start? Check out Mudbill's video tutorial series.

Tip: If you can't find a tutorial for what you need, make sure to check the Editor documentation and Engine documentation. An example of this would be the Particle Editor.

Text tutorials

Level Editor

• Tutorial 1 - The minimum required to get a level that can load.
• Tutorial 2 - Placement of lights and advanced setup of lights.
• Tutorial 3 - How to make an outdoor environment. There's a newer version of it available.
• Tutorial 4 - Explains how to make water.
• Tutorial 5 - Prop dimensions and detailing your map.
• Tutorial 6 - ???????
• Tutorial 7 - Making skyboxes for HPL2
• HPL2/Tutorials/Level Design - Using all of the basic techniques to achieve good effects
• Level Editor 101 - All the basics and some more advanced techniques.

Model Editor

• Basic tutorial - The minimum required to load a model as an entity with collision and game properties.
• Creating Ragdoll Entities - How to create full physics-based entities.
• Making Items Static - How to change an items' properties to static.
• Coin chests - How to create chests that can be only opened with coins.

Material Editor

• Tutorial 1 - Basic materials and their properties.
• Creating mirrors - make reflective surfaces using water materials

Game files

• How to create Custom Sounds - Teaches how to create custom sounds for your custom story.
• How to Create Notes and Journal Entries - Explains how to make journal entries and place them in a map
• Porting MFP Assets - explains how to copy assets from MFP to TDD and avoid issues
• Convert HDRI to skyboxes

Scripting tutorials

General basics:

• Make your set-up comfortable for scripting
• Newbie's Guide to Scripting - A tutorial for those new to scripting, focusing on syntax and a few helpful hints - By 'Entih
• Tutorial 1 - Using a tutorial level, with some objects to make basic scripts.
• Activating/Using Message Pop-Ups - Explains how to activate a message to appear when walking into a script area.
• Triggering monsters on entities - Explains how to trigger an event after picking up an item.

Door-related script tutorials:

• Item That Unlocks a Door - How to make an item that unlocks a certain door.
• Buttons that open doors - Explains how to make buttons that open doors.
• Scary door events - Explains how to make scary door events.
• Using A Crowbar On A Door - Explains how to script a crowbar to blow open a door.
• Adding Messages To Locked Doors - Explains how to display a message when a player tries to open a locked door.

Useful coding practices:

• The "For" loop - Explains how and when to use the "for" loop.
• Advanced Timers - Explains how to use multiple timers in one function.
• Local and Global Variables - Explains what they are and how to use them correctly.
• Scripting Sequences - Explains how to build simple and easy to use cutscenes, or sequences for your mod.

Forces and impulses:

• Impulse and forces - Explains how to use force and impulse.
• Push doors open using force - Explains how to use Force to open doors and entities.
• Dynamic curtains - Using force to simulate wind
• "Disable" gravity and make objects float - Make entities seem to float using timer functions and forces

Other:

• Monster Path Nodes - Explains how to set up a monster's path and how to trigger it.
• Levers and secret bookshelves - Explains how to make a lever that opens a bookshelf.
• Scares - Explains in as much detail as possible the multiple scares you can use without having to bring out the monsters.
• Combining The Hammer And Chipper - Explains how to combine your hammer and chipper in your inventory.
• Checkpoints using Areas - Explains how to make a checkpoint using Areas.
• How to create your own Main Menu Backgrounds! - The usability of Amnesia's .cfg files and its Editors
• ShowScreenImage() - Some notes about the ShowScreenImage() function new to ATTD in version 1.5 (and also AAMFP).

Modeling

• Modeling tutorial - Initially written for outsourcers.

Video tutorials

Crossed-out videos are unavailable or privated (as of June 2024).

Sublists

• Large playlist of video tutorials for beginners and intermediate developers - By Mudbill
• From Noob to Pro: Amnesia Custom Story Creation Series - By YourComputer

By Khyrpa

• Building and Lighting in The Level Editor
• Lighting in Level Editor
• Billboards
• Advanced Candle Light Connecting
• Wind Scare (Part 1)
• Wind Scare (Part 2)

Various authors

• How To Create a Custom Story - By TheVegaNVega
• How To Make Journal Entries/Notes - By RussMoney
• How To Make Journal Entries/Mementos - By RussMoney
• How To Convert a Custom Story To a Full Conversion - By RussMoney
• How to convert cube map images to DDS format in the GIMP - By YourComputer
• Adding Voice to your Diaries - By triadtimes
• How to create a custom main menu background - By CTCommunity
• Using Prop Force: How Do I Know Which Coordinate To Put My Value In? - By JenniferOrange

By MulleDK19

• Make a key unlock a specific door
• How to create and use Areas or Triggers
• Using the Level Editor (Part 1)
• Using the Level Editor (Part 2)
• Using the Level Editor (Part 3)

By Simpanra

• How To Make Level Door
• How To Get a Key To Unlock a Door
• How To Make Water
• How To Make a Custom Story Background
• How To Make a Functional and Interactable Ladder
• How To Name and Describe Keys
• Simple Script Function

By Elven

Youtube Channel link

• Basics of the Basic
• When is it syntax and when not?
• Make your life easier: Notepad++ with plugin & Debugging
• So, how the duckling I install hps support?
• Scripting Functions (intro)
• Timers
• Piano Scare (Request)
• Adding Credits
• Setting up development mode
• Loopable timers - LIMITED EDITION (Specific amount of times)
• Hallucination monster scare!