What is BQ? Go
here.This here be an introduction to the map editor, because BMcC is totally exhausted from working and can't write one himself! Aren't I so nice?
First things first: you've got to have a map to edit! To do this, create a new text file in the maps folder of BQ.
Since .bqMap is a text editor-compatible extension, you can save some time by taking care of the preliminary stuff right now. At the top of the document you will need to put four lines. These lines represent:
Tileset
Music
Border Color
Background
They are written like this:
Tiles_set
Music_set
Border_set
Background_set
You can see the sets for yourself by looking in the individual folders. The folders are named the same as the prefixes of the base attributes, so it's pretty straightforward. Most importantly, there are several mostly-complete tilesets. They are:
- Bootcamp
- Dungeon
- Forestville
- House
- Mario
- Underside
- Warehouse
Note: Underside is a joke. It's actually a Cave Story tileset.
After creating the new map and saving your options, you need to rename it to name.bqMAP. Make sure you turn on "see hidden file extensions" in options if you can't see the extension.
After renaming your map, hop in-game and type in your map name into the "Load Map" door.
After loading your map, press F2 or Tab to bring up the development tools. When you are finished editing, F9 saves your map. There's 3 different editors for maps, so instead of doing a step-by-step, I'm just going to explain how each editor works and leave it up to you!
Collision Editor1.) The GFX tile number that is in that particular square. Not really needed as you can see GFX on the collision editor screen, but can help.
2.) The particular type of collision that this square has. Collision at the moment is divided into 6 types, and are accessed by pressing the corresponding number:
- 1 - Platforms. These are tiles that Guy Balding can stand on or cling to. In other words, solid blocks.
- 2 - Spikes. If Guy touches these, he's dead.
- 3 - Ladder. Guy can climb up these like one would expect.
- 4 - Lava. Guy dies if he falls into lava, much like spikes.
- 5 - Water. At the moment, water doesn't actually do anything.
- 6 - Coin. These are tiles that guy can collect. When he runs into this tile, whatever GFX is there disappears and a coin noise is heard.
3.) Tells you if this tile is background or foreground. You can change the values by pressing
Page Up for Foreground and
Page Down for Background
4.) The type of collision you are currently drawing. See 2. for examples of collision types.
5.) The cursor. You control this with the mouse, quite obviously.
Left-click places a collision tile,
right-click removes it.
Tile GFX Editor1.) This is a GFX tile. You can trigger whether you are showing background and/or foreground tiles by pressing
9 and/or
0, respectively.
2.) This shows which GFX tile you are currently placing. Press
left and
right to change the tile, press
up and
down to rotate it.
Note: You will still control Guy during this, so you may want to delete him.
BMcC Edit: You can also Pause. In the next update I'll have the Editor override any other input.
3.) Your cursor. Again.
Left-click places a tile,
right-click copies the selected tile (changes 2. to the tile you have selected, rotation included), and
Delete removes the current tile.
Page Up and
Page Down still work as normal here.
Objects Editor1.) The entry field to create an object. Press
Enter while on this screen to bring it up, and enter to create the object at the tip of your cursor (or close the field if the object called is invalid). The object name is the individual script file in the Scripts subfolder (RedSwitch01, Guy, etc). You have to place Guy to play the map, and where he is when the map is saved determines the starting position. Note: The object creator stores the name of the last object you created, so to continue to create objects of that kind, just press enter twice.
2.) An object! The green box (or pink if you have the object selected) is the collision hitbox for the object.
3.) Your cursor.
Left-click selects an object, and you can drag a selected object by holding left-click down.
Right-click anywhere deselects the object.
Delete removes whichever object the cursor is on.
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