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Posted these tutorials on the wiki - they're not fantastic, and not overly detailed, but hey, they work.

I'm going to try and fill as many of the missing links as possible in the wiki, because it frustrated me, when I was learning.

Apologies if they're not brilliant, edit away if you think so,
Owen.

Edit:

How to Make Secret Doors, Walls and Floors
http://sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/index. ... %26_floors

How to create a hollow tower/tube
http://sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/index. ... tower/tube

How to create set of glass stairs
http://sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/index. ... ass_stairs

How To Make a Realistic River
http://sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/index. ... stic_river

How to Add Fog to a Map
http://sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/index. ... g_to_a_map

How to Make New Textures
http://sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/index. ... w_textures

Tips To Make Night Time Maps
http://sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/index. ... t_time_map

Editing the wiki
http://sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/index. ... g_the_wiki

Just some things you could maybe change, thx 4 posting it btw =P

There is a couple of ways to make secret passages in your maps.

The first one is the simplest. Go into edit mode and make an ordinary wall that you want to be able to walk through. Select the part of the wall you want to walk through /Select the part of this wall you want to walk through. Move to the other side of the wall, than right click on the other side of the wall. Hit f3 to go to the materials, and select noclip. (maybe: select noclip?)

And its done. Now hit the e-key and you will be able to move through the wall. That's the simple way to make a secret passage.


The next way is a lot harder and longer to make[/b] (and its also theoretical - I've never tried it, but I cant see why it wouldn't work) (If so, try it out! )

Make your wall as per usual in edit mode. Now you have to find the texture of the wall you just made (normally located in packages/textures) Either make a new mapmodel, and animate it, or edit door number 2 in packages/models/doors/doors_02, so that it is totally flat. (For both of these, look at the Adding Models in the Sandbox tutorial on the main wiki page, under the Advanced Topics heading) Make the skin of the mapmodel the texture you located in the first point. Load the model in the game, load the model into the game. Delete the cubes behind where you want the door to be. Position (maybe place is better?) the door in the place where you want it to be. If the size of the door is slightly off the size of the hole, use f and scroll of the size of the hole, until it fits, if it doesn't, change grid size with g + scrolling and try again. Use triggers to determine what opens the door. http://sandboxgamemaker.com/platinumart ... itref.html Is useful when doing this.

All done!

Thanks Runescapedj. Feel free to edit it yourself?

anyway, next tutorial

How To Make a Realistic River
http://sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/index. ... stic_river

How to Add Fog to a Map
http://sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/index. ... g_to_a_map

How to Make New Textures
http://sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/index. ... w_textures

Tips To Make Night Time Maps
http://sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/index. ... t_time_map

maybe you can edit your first post instead of posting that many posts? (this is not a spam topic), and I'll look into them, and I never editted a page be4, and I don't know how 2 edit a wiki page

EDIT:

Realistic river: sorry, but if I didn't knew the way u use already, I didn't get it, is this what you mean?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4bq7F3A64k

Adding fog:

Adding fog is very simple!


simply hit the ` key (the one that is between Esc and tab)

Now type


fog X


Where X is a value between 16 and 1000024

16 is the maximum amount of fog you can add; you can't see anything basically

That's all!/All done!

P.S.: To change the fog colour, type

fogcolour X

Where X is the colour of the fog, in 0xRRGGBB format, where R is the Red value, G, Green and B, Blue ?, in 0xRRGGBB format? what do you mean? (maybe you can explain a bit) PS: I know, but I don't think everybody knows

New textures: why isn't it poss 2 create a tutorial (example if there're more ways) while there are some that you can find using google?
And you didn't included how 2 add them 2 sandbox after creating them btw

Night time (dark) maps: maybe a link to the adding fog tutorial? and how do you make lights that you can see from a far distance but that don't give 2 much light?

Sounds like a good idea, but ill post one more time to alert you to this tutorial, made for yourself Runescapedj

Editing the wiki
http://sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/index. ... g_the_wiki

Have fun!

You know Sandbox has a wikipedia page?

It's not very good, though...

lol that is where im putting these...?