Bluelining Fundamentals

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How to make a room: In this video:

Create new orb

Add domain (leave effect as no_name)

Assign ceiling and floor textures

Create a first wall (begin in lower left corner)

Assign wall texture

Create three more walls to create a complete enclosed room

View our creation (requires to load attempts since it is new orb).

Move/drag walls to demonstrate that a "room" can be hallway, chimney, or whatever.
How to make a RBOX: In this video:

We begin by opening the orb from "How to make a room."

Save the orb with a new name

Make sure the room is the size I want for holding the RBOX

Add a new domain (add duplicates the settings from previously selected domain.)

Make Ceiling H 64 -- leave Floor H at 0

Change Ceiling Tex to woodd7a.

Change Floor Text to NO_NAME (so it does not need to be rendered)

Change Effect to be RBOX

Go to Walls

Make a wall starting in lower left corner..

Change wall (MidText) to woodd7a

Change Front to 2

Make remaining walls to enclose a RBOX

Save, Load, A-E to exit Edit and enter into View mode

Add a second RBOX that floats in the air

Click Domain Add button

Change Ceiling H = 128, Floor H = 64

Add texture (woodd7a) because floor (bottom of box) is now visible.

Make the walls as before (with 2 as the Front)

Also we introduced CapsLock as a way for character to crouch.
How to make two connected rooms: In this video:

(Click here to download Lab2.zip for the orb)

Save Lab2 as some other name of your devising.

Fix SOUL1 for the new orb. This is required because the saving of a new orb does not carry forward the F6 for the OSOUL

First we add a new domain.

Since this will be a hallway we make it 256 height/

Delete the wall we want to insert a hallway into.

Re-add the wall in three pieces. The center piece (for the new hallway) is 256 wide)

Define the back of that wall as Domain 1

Select a single-sided wall as template and create the first wall of the hallway. West wall in this case.

Change the "Front" from 0 to 1 (the new domain)

Finish making the other walls for the hallway.

Save/Load/Look to see how things are going.

Make a new domain for the next room. Make sure the selected domain is 0 (not 1) so that the new domain has a 384 height. No big deal if you duplicate the hallway. Just change the height to your desired height for the new room.

Go to walls and all the new room.

Save/Load/Look to see the results.
Add a Doorway to a Wall(structure): In this video:

Start with a simple RBOX struction in the form of a "wall".

Select the Domain associated with the wall structure.

Duplicate that domain. This will carry forward the height and textures.

Go to the panel for adding walls. And, create a RBOX structure to be one side of the doorway.

Note: Build this box away from the original wall structure so you can slide it in later.

Grab the side wall of the original wall structure and pull it over to make room for the new side wall. Be sure to leave room for the doorway.

Go to Domain panel and move the new side wall into place.

You should now have two side wall structures and a gap for the doorway.

Go to the Domain panel and duplicate one of the "wall" domains so we can create a header for over the doorway. Make sure to add a floor texture because now the floow (bottom of the RBOX) will be visible.

Change the value of the RBOX floor to create the bottom of the doorway header.

In the Wall panel create a new box that will fill the doorway gap. Drag this into place.

You should now have a doorway in the wall.

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