1 00:00:04,010 --> 00:00:05,570 ‫Hello and welcome. 2 00:00:05,570 --> 00:00:10,040 ‫In this lecture we're going to be making this a level from scratch. 3 00:00:10,220 --> 00:00:18,050 ‫Are using the assets in the asset pack and modularity, laying out every single one of these 260 almost 4 00:00:18,050 --> 00:00:22,640 ‫actors and making a level that looks something like this. 5 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:27,560 ‫And we're going to keep our outline a nice and organized at the same time by using folders. 6 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:29,630 ‫Let's dive in and see how this is done. 7 00:00:30,020 --> 00:00:37,370 ‫So let's start by opening up our new level, which is the dungeon levels and the route of content for 8 00:00:37,370 --> 00:00:39,380 ‫me, and I'm going to go ahead and open. 9 00:00:39,380 --> 00:00:46,970 ‫It's completely blank and we want to be in our four pane view here in order to be able to place things 10 00:00:46,970 --> 00:00:49,070 ‫down nice and easily. 11 00:00:49,790 --> 00:00:51,140 ‫So what we're going to do? 12 00:00:51,140 --> 00:00:57,290 ‫Well, I felt bad for leaving you with this scrappy design in the last lecture, so I'm just going to 13 00:00:57,290 --> 00:01:05,360 ‫show you how I then refine that just now to basically give you a better idea of what I'm trying to build. 14 00:01:06,290 --> 00:01:10,340 ‫So here is the two levels separated out. 15 00:01:10,340 --> 00:01:11,750 ‫This is the top level here. 16 00:01:11,750 --> 00:01:15,110 ‫On the right, you can see there's a courtyard section with some doors. 17 00:01:15,110 --> 00:01:20,420 ‫We've got the four cells here with pillars, table and chair, this time labelled. 18 00:01:20,420 --> 00:01:26,810 ‫We've got the statuette hidden inside this open cell and the secret door here that the statuette opens 19 00:01:26,810 --> 00:01:30,500 ‫and then stairs going down to the lower crypt level. 20 00:01:30,740 --> 00:01:36,110 ‫Here in the lower crypt, we've now got a dead end over here at some door, but it's closed. 21 00:01:36,110 --> 00:01:37,010 ‫We can't get in. 22 00:01:37,430 --> 00:01:41,690 ‫We've got the vase, which we're going to need later to open up our closing rails. 23 00:01:41,690 --> 00:01:42,860 ‫It's hidden over here. 24 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:50,090 ‫And then if you go round the corner in this crypt, you're going to find the open doors to the mausoleum 25 00:01:50,090 --> 00:01:52,640 ‫where there is the statue that we want to steal. 26 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,250 ‫We take that statue, the rails close. 27 00:01:55,250 --> 00:01:56,570 ‫So we need to put the statue back. 28 00:01:56,570 --> 00:02:02,930 ‫We need to then go find some substitute for the statue, this vase over here near the dead end, and 29 00:02:02,930 --> 00:02:05,330 ‫then we can escape with our statue. 30 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,830 ‫So that's going to be the little puzzle we're going to have to, first of all, find that we need to 31 00:02:09,830 --> 00:02:11,000 ‫open a secret door. 32 00:02:11,030 --> 00:02:14,690 ‫Then we're going to need to find the vase to open the statue. 33 00:02:14,690 --> 00:02:18,710 ‫Well, how do we go about creating this with the components we've got? 34 00:02:18,710 --> 00:02:25,250 ‫Well, control space to open up our content drawer and then we can search for floor. 35 00:02:25,250 --> 00:02:29,720 ‫So if I search for floor, you can see it's coming up with a bunch of different stuff. 36 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:37,430 ‫But what we're looking for is the same floor, so maybe we can start with SM floor and you can see it's 37 00:02:37,430 --> 00:02:39,500 ‫going to come up with a few options. 38 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:43,880 ‫We've got the crypt floor, but we've also got our standard floor as well. 39 00:02:44,030 --> 00:02:47,840 ‫So we need to decide where we want to start with our design. 40 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:54,920 ‫In my case, I think I'm going to start with the upper section and the courtyard, etc. So let's go 41 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:57,230 ‫ahead and start creating the courtyard. 42 00:02:57,230 --> 00:03:03,980 ‫As you can see from my design, this looks like it needs to be three units by three units for this main 43 00:03:03,980 --> 00:03:08,990 ‫inner section, and the outer section may as well be three by two. 44 00:03:08,990 --> 00:03:11,420 ‫So let's go in and create that. 45 00:03:11,420 --> 00:03:18,050 ‫We're going to take a floor mesh and we're going to drag it in to our top down scene like so. 46 00:03:18,110 --> 00:03:21,230 ‫And you can see that it's added it in here. 47 00:03:21,860 --> 00:03:24,920 ‫So we can then you can see you can drag it around pretty freely. 48 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:28,130 ‫But I actually don't want to drag it around so freely. 49 00:03:28,130 --> 00:03:34,190 ‫We can restrict how we're dragging it by clicking on this plus plus icon here. 50 00:03:34,220 --> 00:03:36,710 ‫Or if you've got a bigger screen, it's actually going to be visible to you. 51 00:03:36,710 --> 00:03:39,140 ‫And we're going to look at the grid snap settings. 52 00:03:39,140 --> 00:03:43,970 ‫Now here we get to choose the increments with which this is going to snap. 53 00:03:43,970 --> 00:03:50,120 ‫And in this case, I actually want to snap with fairly large increments of one meter, which will allow 54 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:54,350 ‫me to place things aligned on this grid that we are seeing. 55 00:03:54,350 --> 00:04:01,970 ‫Now, I'm just going to reset the transform so that this floor starts at the 00. and we can start building 56 00:04:01,970 --> 00:04:09,800 ‫out the floor for our courtyard so we can click and drag in the top down view to start creating the 57 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:10,250 ‫courtyard. 58 00:04:10,250 --> 00:04:16,580 ‫Now I want my X to be the forward direction and in the x direction is where we're going to head to get 59 00:04:16,580 --> 00:04:17,300 ‫to our goals. 60 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:21,620 ‫So I'm going to build out the courtyard around that. 61 00:04:21,860 --> 00:04:29,360 ‫We're just going to drag these floor tiles a bit and that should create us the courtyard. 62 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:33,950 ‫Now remember, we're doing this in the unlit mode because we have no lighting at the moment. 63 00:04:33,950 --> 00:04:36,470 ‫Now, just at the moment, just be following along. 64 00:04:36,470 --> 00:04:39,350 ‫And in a second I'm going to challenge you to build out your own level. 65 00:04:39,350 --> 00:04:45,350 ‫So just watch, see how I build with the level, and then we'll come back and do some more level building 66 00:04:45,350 --> 00:04:46,250 ‫after that. 67 00:04:46,250 --> 00:04:51,950 ‫Now, I just want to take a second to have a look at the outline and check that we are going to have 68 00:04:51,950 --> 00:04:56,870 ‫something manageable here in the outline, you can see that we're already starting to accumulate a lot 69 00:04:56,870 --> 00:04:59,240 ‫of actors and they're kind of unmanaged. 70 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:03,290 ‫So what I would like to do is right click on this and move them into a. 71 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:10,050 ‫You folder, which we're going to call the courtyard, so that we can just have the different areas 72 00:05:10,050 --> 00:05:15,000 ‫split out and we can easily hide or show different elements of the map. 73 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,270 ‫This is going to be useful when we have a lot more map. 74 00:05:18,270 --> 00:05:21,870 ‫Now, before I go much further, I'd like to add some walls into my courtyard. 75 00:05:21,870 --> 00:05:27,540 ‫So I'm going to look for some wall in the outer liner. 76 00:05:27,540 --> 00:05:31,830 ‫And you can see we've got the crypt walls, first of all, but I want the dungeon walls here. 77 00:05:31,830 --> 00:05:36,060 ‫And you can see there's a few variations of decorative wall available, too. 78 00:05:36,060 --> 00:05:43,080 ‫I'm just going to go for the standard dungeon wall and I'm going to try and place it somewhere in my 79 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:44,010 ‫level. 80 00:05:44,130 --> 00:05:50,640 ‫You can see I can actually put it in the visible level or I could try and drop it into one of the other 81 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:51,690 ‫levels instead. 82 00:05:51,690 --> 00:05:57,720 ‫But I'm just going to put it in the visible section and then I'm going to try and align its corner with 83 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,500 ‫the edge of the map and then drag it out to make a wall. 84 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:07,050 ‫When we get to a corner, we need to rotate it by 90 degrees about like so. 85 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,080 ‫And you can see that we've got the wall finished off over here. 86 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:14,940 ‫Now, what I can do is I can easily take these two elements by control, click shift, clicking them 87 00:06:14,940 --> 00:06:20,340 ‫in fact, and then I can move them to the side with an alt drag to the other side, and that finishes 88 00:06:20,340 --> 00:06:23,220 ‫off the wall nicely on the whole courtyard. 89 00:06:23,220 --> 00:06:30,930 ‫We're actually not quite we need to bring two elements to panels here over to add a wall on this side 90 00:06:30,930 --> 00:06:36,150 ‫of the courtyard, because we're going to have a big door in this central area, but we'll think about 91 00:06:36,150 --> 00:06:38,190 ‫the door in just a second. 92 00:06:38,190 --> 00:06:41,160 ‫First of all, we're going to continue our flooring. 93 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:46,650 ‫So now that I have these three panels, I can select them with shift, click and then alt and duplicate 94 00:06:46,650 --> 00:06:53,820 ‫the whole lot so that I can create floor for the whole of the inside dungeon area and I can do the same 95 00:06:53,820 --> 00:06:55,290 ‫with the walls. 96 00:06:55,290 --> 00:06:56,040 ‫So here we go. 97 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,340 ‫We've got our main dungeon area in there. 98 00:06:59,340 --> 00:07:04,620 ‫We've got our walls, we've got our little courtyard area which we may want to make bigger later on, 99 00:07:04,620 --> 00:07:05,790 ‫which we can always do. 100 00:07:05,790 --> 00:07:10,950 ‫And then we've got our secret door going down the stairs into the crypt. 101 00:07:11,100 --> 00:07:14,850 ‫So the stairs are probably the next element that I want to worry about. 102 00:07:14,850 --> 00:07:22,110 ‫So let's search for SM stair and you can see they come into varieties a step, five steps and ten steps. 103 00:07:22,110 --> 00:07:31,080 ‫Now having looked at the level, I know that you need one five step and 210 steps to make it down to 104 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:31,890 ‫the crypt level. 105 00:07:31,890 --> 00:07:34,770 ‫But if we weren't sure about that, how could we figure that out? 106 00:07:34,770 --> 00:07:41,580 ‫Well, first of all, we could have a look for some crypt wall and figure out from there essentially 107 00:07:41,580 --> 00:07:42,420 ‫what the height is. 108 00:07:42,420 --> 00:07:48,570 ‫So I'm going to bring in a crypt wall and I'm going to drag it in to my level down here, and I'm going 109 00:07:48,570 --> 00:07:54,690 ‫to try and align it on the right hand view so that we can kind of see its height. 110 00:07:54,690 --> 00:08:00,660 ‫Now, you see this height because it's 450 doesn't align with our grid spacing. 111 00:08:00,660 --> 00:08:05,490 ‫So we need to go and change the grid snap settings to be a grid size of 50. 112 00:08:05,490 --> 00:08:13,800 ‫So now we're going to align on half a meter and that allows me just to align the roof of this floor 113 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:19,500 ‫level with the bottom of the floor on the upper level. 114 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:23,880 ‫So you can see what that looks like from this view and it kind of looks okay. 115 00:08:23,890 --> 00:08:28,500 ‫I'm just going to make sure it's aligned with the side of the passage, but we may need to change things 116 00:08:28,500 --> 00:08:29,280 ‫there anyway. 117 00:08:29,460 --> 00:08:32,310 ‫Now let's take the stair. 118 00:08:32,310 --> 00:08:39,660 ‫So as stairs what we're going to look for and I'm going to take the ten unit stair and notice it's aligned 119 00:08:39,660 --> 00:08:41,190 ‫in the wrong direction. 120 00:08:41,190 --> 00:08:43,080 ‫It's trying to go up in the Y axis. 121 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:51,900 ‫So we're going to need to rotate it by 90 degrees and then we can try and position this so that it starts 122 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:55,710 ‫at the exit to our dungeon and then we can duplicate it. 123 00:08:55,710 --> 00:09:01,650 ‫I'm going to use the right view and alt to move these steps down and you can see how another set of 124 00:09:01,650 --> 00:09:03,630 ‫ten stairs would be too many here. 125 00:09:03,630 --> 00:09:11,100 ‫So we can take the slightly smaller mesh, bring it into our scene, and we can rotate that by 90 degrees 126 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:15,960 ‫as well and then try and position it next to these stairs here. 127 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:24,210 ‫Now, it's not 100% perfect and we may need to have the floor level slightly higher than the last few 128 00:09:24,210 --> 00:09:26,370 ‫steps, but that's going to be fine too. 129 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:32,820 ‫We can easily just have the wall start here and also have some crypt floor starting down there as well. 130 00:09:32,820 --> 00:09:39,210 ‫So let's search for the SM crypt floor and you can see there's a few concave examples, but I want the 131 00:09:39,210 --> 00:09:45,810 ‫flat crypt floor which I'm going to drag in to our top down view and notice that the stairs are actually 132 00:09:45,810 --> 00:09:49,410 ‫a bit wider than that floor. 133 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:50,970 ‫But that's fine. 134 00:09:50,970 --> 00:09:58,500 ‫What we can do to mitigate that fact here is simply just have two of them and hide some of the flooring 135 00:09:58,500 --> 00:09:59,610 ‫behind the wall. 136 00:09:59,610 --> 00:10:03,000 ‫So we select both of these, bring them down to. 137 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:11,410 ‫Floor level under the stairs, and we may just need to bring them along to align them with our wall. 138 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:18,670 ‫Now I'm going to finish off the walls in our staircase by duplicating some of the dungeon walls here, 139 00:10:18,700 --> 00:10:25,210 ‫bringing them into the staircase like so and then just filling out with some copies, this whole space. 140 00:10:25,210 --> 00:10:30,640 ‫And it doesn't matter if things overlap a little bit and we have extra wall that's not visible. 141 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:31,600 ‫That's all. 142 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:38,140 ‫Part of the magic of using these modular things is you can often just hide the fact that you've got 143 00:10:38,140 --> 00:10:41,500 ‫a little bit of excess behind some of your other scenery. 144 00:10:41,500 --> 00:10:44,830 ‫So here you can see I've got the staircase mostly sorted. 145 00:10:44,830 --> 00:10:53,890 ‫I'm going to add in a bit of war here to patch things up over the top of our crypt hallway, going to 146 00:10:53,890 --> 00:10:55,540 ‫rotate it 90 degrees. 147 00:10:55,540 --> 00:11:01,090 ‫Then I'm going to select and shift select all the walls along this one side. 148 00:11:01,810 --> 00:11:05,980 ‫And I notice I've actually got a duplicate wall that's misaligned that I don't need. 149 00:11:05,980 --> 00:11:09,850 ‫So let's get rid of that and then shift click all of this using the Move tool. 150 00:11:09,850 --> 00:11:13,630 ‫I'll click and move it to the other side of the staircase. 151 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:20,170 ‫And if we go and have a look from a player perspective, you can see things are not quite aligned here 152 00:11:20,170 --> 00:11:26,980 ‫on the corner, but this is okay because we can patch this over with some pillars or some other level 153 00:11:26,980 --> 00:11:28,330 ‫design material later on. 154 00:11:28,330 --> 00:11:34,210 ‫We're just getting the basic building blocks right now and this is looking pretty okay, to be honest. 155 00:11:34,210 --> 00:11:41,080 ‫So with some of these skills, I'd like you to go ahead and have a stab at creating your own level layout. 156 00:11:41,470 --> 00:11:46,030 ‫First of all, just look at doing the walls and floors and ceilings potentially as well. 157 00:11:46,030 --> 00:11:51,970 ‫If you want or if you want to see how I do those, you can come back and try that with me later on. 158 00:11:52,300 --> 00:11:57,880 ‫We're also going to add in some doors, try and find some door meshes and our doors between some of 159 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:02,140 ‫your areas and then decoration after that. 160 00:12:02,140 --> 00:12:05,140 ‫So adding in pillars and arches and stuff, have a go. 161 00:12:05,140 --> 00:12:09,160 ‫See if you can decorate some of the set scene as well. 162 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,200 ‫But for now, just ignore any lighting. 163 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:16,150 ‫We're going to stay in this unlit mode and just look at add geometry for the level instead.