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. If you are viewing the map scaled differently, from the editor hit:



Your screen should now be sized at the same size for

Once you have the cursor where you want it, hit , move the cursor up to the top-left-hand corner where it says NIL and then down a step to the tile just below that where the info window will read City. Hit to confirm your choice.

You have just selected a new Tile ! You can use either the to plot this new tile anywhere you want on your map or holding down the key you can pres and/or hold down any of the arrow keystrokes, either the 4 collected together just to the left of your number keypad, or provided you have the NUM-LOCK light turned off, then you can use the regular arrow keys including the diagonal ones to plot a tile where the cursor is, and to move the cursor in that direction.

This is useful for rapidly filling in areas if you like.

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Now hit and you will be presented with a selection of options:

Add Which One ?
SPRITE
CRITTER
WARP
TREASURE
LOCK
TRANSPORT

If you do not see the choice of

version of and you should upgrade to a newer one. You can get

.

Confirming you have the latest version of From the choices listed above hit to select that you are going to add a WARP.

A new screen will pop up:
Image Of Warp ?
BLACK
TILE
INVISIBLE

Because we have already plotted the tile of City we can safely say

, so hit .

There are many different kinds of warps, and the easiest one to learn is the

.

You will see several types of warps, but we want to keep this simple and easy for now so hit:

From the map editor, hit for

.

You will be notified that the position to warp to will be recorded where the cursor is when you hit one more time, and at this time now, you can use both square bracket keys and arrow keys to specify the exact location this warp will take you.

Once the cursor is over where you want it to warp, hit .
A notice will appear that the warp was added and would you like to make a return warp here as well ? This very simply means that if the player now touched WHERE the cursor is, they will be warped exactly to the warp tile that brought them here. Generally, you would say NO and build a new adjacent warp entirely, but you are welcome to use this mirror technique if it assists you.

Realize that when a player is warped, they can walk backwards on to a map cel matching the same cel as they warped to, which may put them "outside" of a map where it is impossible to enter the map since the tile they arrived on does not match the type or class of the actual inside map. It's a good idea to have warps send the player inside the destination map and not on the edge of the map.

That is how you make simple warps.

should I use a named warp when an absolute is so much easier to create, plus the fact that if you do create a named warp, that you cannot put a Sprite Message directly where the player will land whereas with an absolute warp, you can.

Actually you can do both, and I haven't really gone into this yet so I will now.

For the purpose of warping to a new location or map, you can use a named warp without any difficulty. Some of you advanced Worldbuilders however want to warp to a new location where there is a

inside your

Where the white represents the actual location they want a player to warp to, when touching a particular warp. In addition to this, there is a Sprite Message linked to this tile so it will be run instantly upon touching this.

In an absolute warp, it is very simple, you just tell to warp to the exact map, X, and Y where the white is represented. Since there is a Sprite Message there, it will be run immediately on arrival. But you cannot mix a Named Warp with a Sprite Message on the same map cel, so how would you have a named warp run a Sprite Message immediately upon arrival ?

Make the blue the named warp , let's say, "CITY"
So the white will still have the Sprite Message we want to have run immediately upon arrival. SO how does it know to run the Sprite that is adjacent ?

Make sure that on the first page of your Sprite Message you have a Warp Catch as one of the commands listed there. Now when the player warps to the blue a check is always made for any adjacent Warp Catches , even if it happens to be inside an adjacent Sprite Message. In this case, there is, so it will HOP from the blue directly to the white because of the Warp Catch located inside the Sprite Message there.

If there isn't a Sprite message, then you can either put a Warp Catch adjacent to the NAMED WARP or, if you don't have any adjacent warp catches, then the player will arrive promptly on the NAMED WARP cel. Remember that touching a Named Warp does not warp the player at all ! This is just the marker name and location that a Warp Seek will be looking for.

If you want to ricochet warp between two or more points, when a Warp Seek cannot find a matching Named Warp then a new search is made for any matching Warp Seeks besides the one that the player is on. If one is found, then the player will warp there. See SuziQ at . Notice there are 3 (three) pillars there that all have the same Warp Call name of Pillar.

Also notice that there are 3 Warp Catches beside each pillar.
Why would you use those ? Well, we don't want the player warping directly on top of the Pillar when they arrive.

A brief example follows showing the use of a Named Warp.

Kenuchii, you can try this if you like, but it is a bit advanced, so you are not required to learn or understand it immediately for simple warps.

Returning back to the map cel you plotted a City tile on, after selecting that you want your Warp to be INVISIBLE (which remember, merely means to use the tile image already beneath the cursor), then you are presented with a new list of choices:

ABSOLUTE
DIRECTION
SEEK ID NAME
RECORD ID NAME
CATCH

Hit for SEEK ID NAME and then it will ask for the name.
Well, what is the name of your city ? Lets say SUNBROOK for this example.

Type it out and hit again to confirm.

We're almost there !
Now using the square bracket keys to change maps and the arrow keys, position yourself on the new map where you want the player to arrive at by touching the city icon, hit and because we are now recording WHERE this warp actually arrives, we hit and type out again SUNBROOK, confirming the name again by pressing .

That's it ! Now go back to where the Warp Seek for SUNBROOK is move the cursor a bit away from there, and hit to enter Testplay. Have your player step onto the City tile and after a moment of searching, the player will be WARPED to the matching Named Warp , which of course, is right inside your city of Sunbrook.

Now I am not saying you cannot use absolute warps, but in the long run, this will be easier, especially if you shift locations of your warps later. If they were absolute warps, well, you'll have to re-encode all of them that got shifted or will be later. But if they are Named Warps, then they will be searched for based upon their name, which would not be changed by MOVING the destination warp.

The warp not explained in this tutorial is the Direction Warp which allows the player to "surf" from one warp to another. There are many examples on the 5th map (#04) in SuziQ. Hit the key to enter any warp while in the map editor to see where it puts the player for debugging purposes. I will undoubtedly explain Direction Warps in later Q & A ..

Named Warps aren't the easiest things to understand in , Kenuchii, but they are vital for shifting the location of a player, for accessing the other 15 maps, and for organizing your rooms, dungeons, castles, and cities, and without having to rewrite them if you shift the locations of one of them, and you can associate the destinations with up to 8-letters for a reference name.