Creating Virtual Worlds
by Tels

Section 1 - A single room

$room = { texture => $txt->texture("blustn"), };         # line 1
$world = cell ( name => "Hello World", room => $room );  # line 2
$bunch = worldAsBunch ( 0, 0, 0, 32, 32, 16, $world);    # line 3

Example 1

1: A single room

Thats it! You may wonder now, what has happened? And where are all the details?

Okay, for the slow ones :o)

We described a room in line 1, and the only thing we set was the texture, which is named 'blustn'.

In line 2 we described our world, gave it a name and said it should use the room described earlier. The call cell() will fill in any parameters we left with good default values.

In line 3 we constructed the world as a bunch, which contains all the gory brushes and objects from our world and can then be saved to a mission file. The wrapper will do the rest for us. In line 3 the 6 parameters are X,Y and Z of the world's center and its width, length and height.

Just FYI, here is the output from the script:

Call as perl vtutorial.pl [section] where section is 1..x and defaults to 1.

Reading tutorial section 1...
Texture families: 8
flavours: 59 links: 242
Tutorial Section 1

Hello World: 0 0 0 (32 32 16)
Debug on for 'Hello World'
Unrotated 0 out of 1 cubes (1 brushes).
Optimizing: air's (1)
Removed 0 rendundand cubes by comparing 0 times.
Stuffing meself into VBR:
'Hello World' contains:
1 brushes, 1 rooms, 0 flows, 0 objects and 0 lights in 3 groups.
Generating object system: 0 links (0 with data), 0 properties.
Done, enjoy data/vtut_1.mis!
Destroyed 'Hello World'

That's it! Load the mission into DromEd, type light_bright[Enter] in the lower right command window (since we haven't added any lights/lamps, and you would otherwise not see anything), then portalize, build the room database, and then hit [ALT]+[G] to go into Game Mode. Walk around and enjoy the empty space a bit.

Now onto to some more complex things...

Two rooms

Contents

	Introduction
	What you need
	How it was...
	A single room
	Two rooms
	Three rooms over the edge
	Another brick in the wall
	Doorways to Heaven
	Redefine the world
	Links, routes, etc.
	More ideas
	Afterword

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