Great job on the tutorial, Darksaber7! I haven't read it fully, but I've read enough of it to know it'd be very helpful for the curious ones out there.

I dabbled a bit in DEdit a while back to try and create my own single-player Tron 2.0 level and learned quite a bit (the tool's not for the easily frustrated).

It was quite rewarding to build a room of your own and to be able to test it by walking around in it and stuff. I reached a point, unfortunately, where I lost patience. I had a glass textured floor with a circuit board floor about 12" underneath it -- and I was running into a problem where AI characters (and myself - Jet) would fall right through both and land on the world box surrounding everything (e.g., when testing the room, if you looked up to your zenith, my room was way up there off in the distance). I detached sides from boxes to give different textures to the walls vs. the floor and ceiling, but re-assembled everything ('CTRL+J' if I remember correctly); so I couldn't figure out what was going on.

Another issue was when I set an AI unit on a back & forth patrol, he'd start the patrol an inch or two about my glass floor, then as he paced he kept slowly getting lower and lower (actually walking in the floor texture as if the floor was water)... ankle deep... knee deep... waist deep... etc. Very odd. Everything seemed to be level and lined up in DEdit, so again... I have no clue what was going on.

I plan to try DEdit again -- maybe I'll try to create a Light Cycle or Multi-Player level. I can create very simplistic rooms and have them work okay, but I like detail. I want to try to create some cool levels. (I should do it before everyone loses interest in the game, eh?)

I must admit I got a bit discouraged when I saw an actual Tron 2.0 game level in DEdit. Good grief!! Those levels are huge and detailed and must've taken forever to build!!

Well, hopefully an expansion pack is being worked on by BVI to revitalize the energy in this game. I'd love to have more single-player levels to play.

If the mod community were more active with this game, I'd also be more interested in creating new levels. As it is now, I wonder who would even play a level if I built one. And, unfortunately, I'm on 56K dialup, so I haven't gotten into the Multi-Player aspect of this game much. In fact, I tried to play an MP game the other day, but nobody was there to join

I'm not very far off from knowing enough about DEdit to be able to create some cool things, but it definitely isn't the easiest thing to learn and work with. Tutorials like yours would've been a great thing to have in January when I was trying to learn DEdit.

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Well Traahn, the only way I've had them work so far is to follow the tutorial that comes with the tools + a few additions. If you look in your "prefabs" folders there are two "skybox" prefabs. After you do everything the tutorial says, add one of these and then attach it to your "DemoSkyWorldModel" along with the other stuff. This should give you a working sky.

Of course, you only have two skies to pick from this way, but it beats having to leave your level in a big box...

From browsing through the pics on TronFaqs site, it looks like a bunch of the Disc / Derezz mappers have indeed figured out the sky boxes. Only a few of the maps use the prefab one that comes with the tools.

I'll work on it some more this weekend. Didn't get much time today, took 16 hrs. + to process the map I'm working on....

I just created my first light cycle map! Thanks a lot for the tutorial, DarkSaber! I went through the "Basics" thread.

The instructions were very clear. The only part I think I got hung up on was the very end: "Create a Rez file (see rez post) and run the map from within the game."

Maybe link to the "Finishing Up" thread here, to help clarify where users should go?

Also, I was a bit confused for a sec on this part, in the Finishing Up thread: "Once your Dat file is in there, go to "file" and click "save as". You can name this rez file what ever you want." With all the other steps that we're needing to keep track of regarding the .dat file, I was wondering where "rez file" was all the sudden coming into the picture. Suggested rewording (bold text = additions):

"Once your Dat file is in there, go to "file" and click "save as" to save the file as a .REZ file. You can name this rez file what ever you want, but be sure to save the file in your "Resources" folder (see below for more info) if you plan to test your level."

In general, the tutorial was easy for me to follow. It's hard to say how much I'd understand if I was totally new to DEdit. I think it certainly helped me that I had an understanding of DEdit and navigating through it with my trial mods back in January, but I think newbies would be okay.

Thanks again! I'll try to see what sort of light cycle creations I can make on my own now.

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