1 00:00:04,470 --> 00:00:04,830 ‫Okay. 2 00:00:04,830 --> 00:00:05,910 ‫Welcome back. 3 00:00:05,940 --> 00:00:07,860 ‫So let's carry on. 4 00:00:07,860 --> 00:00:12,630 ‫I think ceilings are needed within this crypt at the moment because it's quite open air. 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:18,570 ‫So we're going to have a look for the ceiling. 6 00:00:18,930 --> 00:00:26,040 ‫And we've got a few different ceiling pieces here of different arch length. 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:33,210 ‫I think I just want this simple ceiling here, which I'm going to drag in to the top down view and I'm 8 00:00:33,210 --> 00:00:34,830 ‫going to try and position. 9 00:00:34,830 --> 00:00:41,220 ‫Now it's pretty invisible from the top, which is slightly annoying, but as long as I know which corner 10 00:00:41,550 --> 00:00:47,640 ‫we are aligning or whether we're aligning a corner, no, it looks like the centre of the mesh is actually 11 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:48,660 ‫the centre of it. 12 00:00:48,660 --> 00:00:50,220 ‫So we're not aligning a corner at all. 13 00:00:50,220 --> 00:00:55,770 ‫We're trying to place it in the middle and we're trying to have it lifted up. 14 00:00:55,770 --> 00:00:58,680 ‫We can use that either right or the back of you to do that. 15 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,650 ‫Lift it up so that it meets with. 16 00:01:01,650 --> 00:01:05,130 ‫Let's see, we don't actually want it to go over our walls. 17 00:01:05,130 --> 00:01:11,040 ‫We want it to overlap them so that when we're inside, there you go, you can see completely blocked 18 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,860 ‫off by the wall and the ceiling like so. 19 00:01:13,860 --> 00:01:20,760 ‫So now all we need to do is repeat this to cover the entirety of the dungeon using a bit of shift clicking 20 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:23,280 ‫magic once we've got a few of them, and there we go. 21 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:29,220 ‫We've got a ceiling that basically covers the entirety of our dungeon. 22 00:01:29,790 --> 00:01:35,280 ‫We just need to extend that ceiling a little bit further to cover our staircase. 23 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,250 ‫So there we've got the staircase covered as well. 24 00:01:38,250 --> 00:01:44,400 ‫Now I'm going to try and look for some doors that I want, so I'm going to look for them door. 25 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,960 ‫And you can see we've got these doorways with doors separate. 26 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:54,900 ‫Actually, I think we want a beep door, so a blueprint door that has both of them already put together 27 00:01:54,900 --> 00:01:56,130 ‫into a blueprint. 28 00:01:56,130 --> 00:01:58,560 ‫So we've got the crypt doorway we've got the dungeon doorway. 29 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,620 ‫We want a dungeon doorway in our upper level. 30 00:02:01,620 --> 00:02:08,160 ‫So let's go and put that in the level and arrange it so that actually the doorway should be at the other 31 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:11,160 ‫end, not near my secret passage. 32 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:12,180 ‫So there we go. 33 00:02:12,180 --> 00:02:13,710 ‫We've got a doorway over here. 34 00:02:13,740 --> 00:02:17,010 ‫Now I want to set the doors slightly ajar. 35 00:02:17,010 --> 00:02:22,500 ‫So if I select the blueprint, I can then go down and have a look at the individual components that 36 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:25,170 ‫make it up with a left door and a right door. 37 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:33,300 ‫And I can select the rotation and the transform of the Z axis to rotate these doors a little bit, open 38 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:37,890 ‫both of them, so that they both swing open in the same direction. 39 00:02:38,810 --> 00:02:39,170 ‫Like. 40 00:02:39,170 --> 00:02:41,770 ‫So we've got a doorway out to the courtyard. 41 00:02:41,780 --> 00:02:46,700 ‫Now let's look for SM Pillar and I want the pillar, not the crypt pillar. 42 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:54,590 ‫I'm going to drag this in to our scene and I'm going to position it in the middle of these posts. 43 00:02:54,590 --> 00:02:55,010 ‫There we go. 44 00:02:55,010 --> 00:03:00,200 ‫Like so now I think to break up the monotony of these walls, we're going to need some arches. 45 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:05,060 ‫So if we search for SM Arch, then we've got ceiling arch A's and B's. 46 00:03:05,060 --> 00:03:06,610 ‫Just going to go with the A's for now. 47 00:03:06,620 --> 00:03:10,250 ‫We can always easily swap out a mesh if we need to. 48 00:03:10,250 --> 00:03:11,750 ‫So I've positioned this arch. 49 00:03:11,780 --> 00:03:18,770 ‫It should be going over the entry to the secret passage and then I can lift it up so that it's properly 50 00:03:18,770 --> 00:03:25,640 ‫aligned with the ceiling as duplicate out these arches so that they cover this entire wall. 51 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:29,600 ‫Then I'm going to shift, select them all and duplicate them along the room. 52 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,150 ‫So that does the arches in one orientation. 53 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:38,240 ‫Let's rotate them by 90 degrees with an alt click to make a duplicate at the same time, and let's duplicate 54 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,100 ‫them in the other orientation. 55 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:40,520 ‫There we go. 56 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,670 ‫That's broken up the monotony of that room quite significantly. 57 00:03:43,670 --> 00:03:47,900 ‫We may want to have some of those arches in the staircase as well. 58 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:54,410 ‫So I selected a group of arches that I've already got and I'll drag them to fill the staircase that's 59 00:03:54,410 --> 00:03:55,490 ‫looking a lot better. 60 00:03:55,490 --> 00:04:00,920 ‫And I'm just noticing that I think I probably need pillars in every one of these spots as well. 61 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:05,900 ‫In the case of the staircase, I think I need two pillars, one on top of the other, and they go, 62 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:12,410 ‫I've got pillars now on each of these arches, which makes the room really filled out and look good. 63 00:04:12,410 --> 00:04:17,510 ‫And we've almost got the all the pillars that we want here in the staircase. 64 00:04:17,510 --> 00:04:22,760 ‫I'm just going to need to duplicate these sets of four pillars to go a little bit further. 65 00:04:22,790 --> 00:04:26,210 ‫And to finish this off, I'm just going to need to add in some cell walls. 66 00:04:26,210 --> 00:04:28,580 ‫So we've actually got I noticed it before. 67 00:04:28,580 --> 00:04:32,090 ‫We have a BP cell here which has got a door. 68 00:04:32,090 --> 00:04:34,310 ‫So I'm going to bring that in for the cell doors. 69 00:04:34,310 --> 00:04:40,250 ‫I'm going to rotate it 90 degrees and position it between the pillars, duplicate that around, and 70 00:04:40,250 --> 00:04:45,980 ‫then we're going to need just the cell side, which is a cell and a position that correctly and duplicate 71 00:04:45,980 --> 00:04:46,760 ‫it around. 72 00:04:46,790 --> 00:04:47,240 ‫There we go. 73 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:52,640 ‫We've got cell walls, we've got cells and we've got a bit of a dungeon setup going on. 74 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:57,830 ‫Now, the next bit, the whole crypt downstairs is basically more of the same, but with different meshes. 75 00:04:57,830 --> 00:05:02,330 ‫I'm just going to go ahead and speed through that while I create it. 76 00:05:22,530 --> 00:05:28,230 ‫So one thing I've noticed here with the ceiling is that because we've got a slightly wider section where 77 00:05:28,230 --> 00:05:36,120 ‫it interfaces with the units of the dungeon, we actually need to use this half ceiling to bridge the 78 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,410 ‫gap and we'll have to use a bit of flat ceiling, too. 79 00:05:38,430 --> 00:05:43,260 ‫So I'm just going to duplicate this kind of rotate it 180 degrees. 80 00:05:43,260 --> 00:05:45,810 ‫And you can see we've got a bit of a hole here. 81 00:05:45,810 --> 00:05:52,620 ‫So we're going to use this SM crypt ceiling flat to patch that over and that covers it over rather nicely 82 00:05:52,620 --> 00:05:55,920 ‫and we'll just duplicate that whole assembly into the corridor. 83 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,310 ‫And now we can just use the standard crypt ceilings here. 84 00:05:59,490 --> 00:06:05,490 ‫And you can see they dovetail nicely into that little patched bit of ceiling that we've created. 85 00:06:13,790 --> 00:06:17,840 ‫Now I'm getting to the bit where I'm going to be using the mausoleum meshes. 86 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:26,270 ‫So the mausoleum is a funny looking double mesh here with two sides to it and there's a ceiling as well, 87 00:06:26,270 --> 00:06:27,340 ‫especially for it. 88 00:06:27,350 --> 00:06:33,110 ‫So let's take in the mausoleum and plonk it in our scene to see what it looks like. 89 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,530 ‫And let's put it at the right height for our crypt. 90 00:06:36,620 --> 00:06:40,370 ‫And you can see it's just this one wall that's rounded. 91 00:06:40,370 --> 00:06:43,160 ‫So we do still need a capping wall at the end here. 92 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:49,130 ‫And what we can do is we can either rotate or scale it to the other side. 93 00:06:49,130 --> 00:06:56,240 ‫So I can just go ahead and kind of invert the scale for the mausoleum to get a mirror image on the other 94 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:56,780 ‫side. 95 00:06:56,780 --> 00:07:03,080 ‫And I just need to do the same old thing with the ceiling to just position it down at the right level. 96 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:08,930 ‫And you can see that the ceiling fits on perfectly to this mesh underneath it. 97 00:07:08,930 --> 00:07:15,770 ‫It's going to duplicate it and scale it by minus one and now minus a floor and something on the end 98 00:07:15,770 --> 00:07:16,670 ‫wall over there. 99 00:07:16,670 --> 00:07:20,090 ‫We've got ourselves a nice looking little mausoleum here. 100 00:07:25,650 --> 00:07:30,750 ‫Now with any of these really boring walls, we can actually swap them out for other static mesh walls. 101 00:07:30,750 --> 00:07:37,530 ‫So if you go to the details pane and scroll down to where you've got the static mesh, then what we 102 00:07:37,530 --> 00:07:45,060 ‫can do is we can just go in here and search for s m crypt wall and you can see there's a few decorative 103 00:07:45,060 --> 00:07:48,750 ‫options, so you could set that to the decorative A for example. 104 00:07:48,750 --> 00:07:52,830 ‫Instead, in this case it's rotated, this wall is rotated the wrong way. 105 00:07:52,830 --> 00:07:58,890 ‫So I'm just going to have to rotate, rotate it by 180 and put it into place. 106 00:07:58,890 --> 00:08:04,110 ‫And you can see that you get a more decorative wall that's in keeping with the rest of this mausoleum 107 00:08:04,110 --> 00:08:04,710 ‫area. 108 00:08:04,710 --> 00:08:07,500 ‫So now I'm just adding some arches and pillars. 109 00:08:13,110 --> 00:08:18,930 ‫Having to budget with this arch just a little bit by scaling it, which is not ideal, but it'll do. 110 00:08:26,820 --> 00:08:30,720 ‫So let's do a quick fly through to see if there's anything obviously missing. 111 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:37,650 ‫So here I am in my courtyard and we're going to fly in to the dungeon and you can see that that looks 112 00:08:37,650 --> 00:08:38,930 ‫pretty good. 113 00:08:38,940 --> 00:08:40,440 ‫Everything seems to be matching up. 114 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,250 ‫No kind of open gaps between things. 115 00:08:43,260 --> 00:08:47,610 ‫Now I can go down my staircase and let's just check the staircase. 116 00:08:47,610 --> 00:08:49,650 ‫Looks okay as well. 117 00:08:49,650 --> 00:08:51,020 ‫Yep, that looks good. 118 00:08:51,030 --> 00:08:52,170 ‫Now we're going to go down. 119 00:08:52,170 --> 00:08:55,890 ‫I've put a little arch and a hallway, a little door here. 120 00:08:56,310 --> 00:09:02,370 ‫We may need to put something across this top element here because I can see a bit of a gap. 121 00:09:02,390 --> 00:09:05,580 ‫We look for some trim. 122 00:09:06,450 --> 00:09:09,420 ‫Then there seems to be something that may fit the bill. 123 00:09:09,540 --> 00:09:11,460 ‫It doesn't quite align with the axis. 124 00:09:11,460 --> 00:09:17,670 ‫So what I'm going to do is just quickly switch off our grid snapping so that I can put it in place like 125 00:09:17,670 --> 00:09:18,300 ‫so. 126 00:09:19,190 --> 00:09:25,250 ‫And I'm also going to move the arch ever so slightly so that it's not penetrating this wall because 127 00:09:25,250 --> 00:09:26,910 ‫I don't want to see it on this side. 128 00:09:26,930 --> 00:09:29,960 ‫I just want to see it on the other side like so. 129 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:34,580 ‫And now I'm actually looking at these bits of wall between the pillars and they don't look quite right. 130 00:09:34,580 --> 00:09:42,410 ‫So I think what we need here is this same edge stones, which if I drag them into the scene, you can 131 00:09:42,410 --> 00:09:43,850 ‫see just look like this. 132 00:09:43,850 --> 00:09:45,950 ‫They kind of neat and up that edge there. 133 00:09:45,980 --> 00:09:48,530 ‫Now, I've had the grid snapping off when I brought this in. 134 00:09:48,530 --> 00:09:54,200 ‫So let's go back to switch on the grid snapping and then we can right click on the object and go to 135 00:09:54,200 --> 00:10:00,710 ‫snapping and then snap origin to grid, which then puts it back onto the grid and allows us to move 136 00:10:00,710 --> 00:10:02,870 ‫it around and put it between. 137 00:10:02,870 --> 00:10:09,020 ‫These edging pillars here have having duplicated that to both sides, I think that just makes this staircase 138 00:10:09,020 --> 00:10:10,100 ‫look a little bit better. 139 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:12,950 ‫Let's continue our fly through so we can see. 140 00:10:12,950 --> 00:10:14,270 ‫Here's our dead end over here. 141 00:10:14,270 --> 00:10:15,260 ‫Everything's looking okay. 142 00:10:15,260 --> 00:10:17,060 ‫What if we go in the other direction? 143 00:10:17,060 --> 00:10:21,500 ‫Well, I think we need something on this wall here, so I'm just going to swap that out. 144 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:27,110 ‫So I'm just going for a decorative bee and rotating it round like so looks a little bit less monotonous. 145 00:10:27,110 --> 00:10:34,010 ‫Let's continue the fly through down we go down this corridor and in to our mausoleum, which is looking 146 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:36,650 ‫quite alright apart from this arch poking through. 147 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:42,080 ‫So let's push the arch back just a little bit and in fact we can without switching grids snapping off, 148 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:50,240 ‫we could just adjust things minutely in the details pane just by shifting the x axis coming through 149 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,360 ‫and having a look and seeing that that looks okay here. 150 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,840 ‫Noticing that I've actually got a couple of pillars missing here as well. 151 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:02,810 ‫We could just use a bit of edge trim stone here instead, just change the grid snapping scale to place 152 00:11:02,810 --> 00:11:08,870 ‫these stones as they don't really fit onto our modular system in this particular location, but they 153 00:11:08,870 --> 00:11:11,750 ‫do the job of rounding things off quite nicely. 154 00:11:11,750 --> 00:11:12,590 ‫So great stuff. 155 00:11:12,590 --> 00:11:19,460 ‫One thing before we finish off, we've got 200 and almost 60 actors in our scene and I forgot to put 156 00:11:19,460 --> 00:11:21,380 ‫them in two folders. 157 00:11:21,380 --> 00:11:24,830 ‫So what we're going to do is we're going to do that now. 158 00:11:24,830 --> 00:11:31,700 ‫And one way that's quite easy to do this by sections is to box select, which you can just do by left 159 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:36,950 ‫clicking and dragging on any of the orthographic views. 160 00:11:37,430 --> 00:11:41,270 ‫You can see that allows us to select objects quite easily. 161 00:11:41,270 --> 00:11:44,900 ‫We might just want to deselect a couple of things manually. 162 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:50,360 ‫So these selected actors are going to right click move to a new folder called The Dungeon. 163 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,430 ‫So now we've got the courtyard, the dungeon. 164 00:11:52,430 --> 00:11:57,350 ‫We can hide both of these so that we can see what actors we actually selected. 165 00:11:57,350 --> 00:12:04,220 ‫I can see that the walls here haven't been selected so I can control alt click in the 3D viewport. 166 00:12:04,220 --> 00:12:12,470 ‫I can also box select those actors and I can right click, move them to the courtyard so that now when 167 00:12:12,470 --> 00:12:17,030 ‫I go to the courtyard folder and make it invisible, that goes as well. 168 00:12:17,030 --> 00:12:18,980 ‫The next thing I want to do is the staircase. 169 00:12:18,980 --> 00:12:21,920 ‫So I'm box selecting that from the right view. 170 00:12:21,950 --> 00:12:25,520 ‫Just going into the 3D view and visually inspecting that. 171 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:31,820 ‫Everything I wanted has been selected right clicking that move to create new folder and we'll call this 172 00:12:31,820 --> 00:12:33,740 ‫one the stair case. 173 00:12:33,740 --> 00:12:34,340 ‫Let's hide it. 174 00:12:34,350 --> 00:12:36,390 ‫Make sure we got all the actors that we wanted. 175 00:12:36,390 --> 00:12:37,310 ‫It looks like we did. 176 00:12:37,310 --> 00:12:43,250 ‫Now I'm going to box select this whole corridor section again, visually inspecting for any actors that 177 00:12:43,250 --> 00:12:44,840 ‫may have got missed. 178 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:50,000 ‫Right clicking move to create new folder corridor. 179 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:51,980 ‫Then we can hide the corridor. 180 00:12:52,850 --> 00:12:58,100 ‫And now the last bit that's left, which is pretty easy to do, it's going to be our mausoleum. 181 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:05,810 ‫So let's right click and create a new folder and call it the mausoleum, which I always struggle to 182 00:13:05,810 --> 00:13:10,250 ‫spell, but I think I manage by copying how it was spelt in the assets. 183 00:13:10,250 --> 00:13:19,610 ‫So now if we close down all of our folders, we should hopefully not have any straggling leftovers that 184 00:13:19,610 --> 00:13:21,380 ‫are not in any of these areas. 185 00:13:21,380 --> 00:13:28,670 ‫And we can individually just enable the courtyard, for example, and just see that in our 3D view, 186 00:13:28,670 --> 00:13:33,140 ‫we might just enable the dungeon or the mausoleum. 187 00:13:33,140 --> 00:13:40,130 ‫We can just see individual elements one at a time if we need to, and that can be helpful when we get 188 00:13:40,130 --> 00:13:42,110 ‫to having lots of actors like this. 189 00:13:42,620 --> 00:13:45,740 ‫And you might want to split out your level in a different way. 190 00:13:45,740 --> 00:13:48,320 ‫You might want to put the ceilings inside folders. 191 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:53,360 ‫You can have folders within folders as well so that you could disable the ceilings while you're trying 192 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,160 ‫to do work on just the floors. 193 00:13:55,160 --> 00:14:00,410 ‫It depends on your own personal workflow and you'll get a feel for that as you go along. 194 00:14:00,410 --> 00:14:04,260 ‫But it's good to keep some sort of order there in the outlier. 195 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:09,260 ‫Okay, so that has been a mammoth long lecture, well done for sticking through. 196 00:14:09,260 --> 00:14:15,080 ‫It is a lot of clicking and dragging to be done with level layout, but hopefully you've now got a feel 197 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:21,920 ‫for how to do this modular level layout and you feel empowered to create your own levels. 198 00:14:21,950 --> 00:14:23,480 ‫I'll see you in the next lecture.