All about The Age of Wonders III Level Editor

Nice!! Ive been waiting for this. In the middle of making a map right now actually lol 🙂

Dear Mr Emperor (Lennart!), Is there any chance we can get the map without the empires territory control placed over it? That would be epic!

I really enjoyed seeing a little more of the map, i cant help but notice that your still hiding the northern tip of the commonwealth 😉 Keeping it secret for a future frostling expansion eh? ^_^

Arlow wrote:

I love you!

LOL

Nice! Now all i need are Archons (Real Archons! Not your undead abominations!), Frostlings, and Lizardmen and I can make a nice map of H.P Lovecrafts dreamlands! 😀

IHunterKiller:

You can disable the empire territories, they are separate layers in the photoshop file

So… who’s making a Game of Thrones-inspired campaign? 😀

Make our own campaigns….oh wow.

AoW1 campaign remake is now possible!

Wow, really?

Players can create their add their own campaign maps.
You can create your own story sequences, using your own art and voice files for narration.

Wow!

invisible handmade heroes:

fixed: seems on my pc i could not create a hero out of scratch. I had to clone Merlin and customise him. Now i clone all my heroes/leaders out of merlin. Ive tried out a lot of options and none seem to work exept this one.

costed me 3 hours to fix this. Maybe some people find this information usefull.

You need to create a new map!

Basic steps for getting started:

1) Menu -> File -> New
2) Set at least 2 players and choose a size. There are RMG options, but that doesn’t work at the moment 🙁
3) When you press OK, you’ll need to wait for a minute or so before doing anything. You can start working when the green ground appears.
4) On the tool bar on the right, select the “Leaders” tab. That lets you set the start positions for the player. You need both to be placed to play the map.

Thanks, Tombles.
I managed the first two steps on my own however perhaps I was just being a bit impatient as the window seemed to glitch whatever was behind it inside itself and it looked like it might have crashed or something.
Seems like it’s just loading.

I can change windows when it’s loaded though, right? I don’t want to ignore my friends! 😛

Hmm, Is it normal for the editor to freeze if I leave it unattended while it loads what I saved? I don’t think it likes being alone. 🙁

Narvek,

“Scripting Guide coming soon!”

Looking forward to this. Tried some things out today with LUA. But running into a brick wall here while trying to make some sence of it. I have not worked with this kind of advanced scripting before. Hoping to get some basic commands done which would help my handmade maps greatly.

Sheepfly,

You are right. I have spend like 5 hours yesterday on handmade heroes. And another 4 hours today. Today mostly figuring out how to make them visible again. If you ask me, writing down all the numbers is a bit of a pain. But i think i can do it in about 2/3 hours. Now that ive got some experience with it on a medium sized map. Of which a good amount of my time is spend unnecessarily if you could import them. In some way from within the game.

meeber,

Not sure what u are trying to ask here. Might be my poor english skills. You could not pull up the heroes like in the game. You have to get out of the editor and start up the map ingame. to see what they look like.

(Heroes created in the game can be manually copied to the editor by writing the numbers of each feature and put them into the editor. You could give them names, custumized items, change their stats/perks. When you are done with them and start up the game and play the map you created. They are visible on a pop up screen and in tactical battles. It is very time consuming proces but very awarding work to see them in the game after tweaking them in the editor and custumise them in the game.)

Hi people,

Thanks for the kind words 🙂
Some answers to things that popped up in this thread so far:

* Making custom heroes: Best way is to go to the hero library (button is on the heroes tab) and clone an existing hero of the same class/race you want, then rename/change whatever you want to change. If they are atill invisible in tactical battles then, I have no idea and it’s a new issue that I haven’t seen before and we’ll look into it.

* Varwulf: we do have water based teleporters 🙂 In fact, all cave entrances/exits are secretly teleporters, so if you place two water caves and link them together you’ll have a water-based teleporter.

* sheepfly: that would be useful indeed. How we did such things when we needed it was screenshot the settings after creating them ingame and then in the editor choose the same settings.

* rohirrimcat: scripting is not really possible without our script commands I imagine. You need to call specific custom made functions.
For example
HexWorld:GetScriptingS():PlayerSendMessage(“MESSAGENAME”, “PLAYERALIAS”)
will send a message when the script is triggered, for example on an area trigger OnEnter (like I showed in the video).
Messages can be made in the story tab (third tab at the top left part of the editor). (Do note: when you use an area trigger like that make sure it is set to cancel movement = true, otherwise you might get problems with events happening at the same time). This is a really small example, I hope to be able to get the scripting stuff out to you guys soon ^^