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Tutorials: Mapping: Complete Beginners' Guide to Embrace

by Kiramin

This is a guide designed for a beginning editor (though it contains much useful information for experienced editors unfamiliar with Vampire editing). It walks you through the process of building a map for vampire, and in the process, covers almost every tool and function you will need to make good maps. It was written as a continuation to the Setting Up and Getting to Know Embrace and Building your First Vampire Map tutorials, so it is expected that you have the knowledge of the things they covered:

• Installing and Setting Up Embrace
• Familiarizing yourself with Embrace
• Creating, Deleteing, Moving, and Resizing Brushes
• Loading and Applying Textures
• Using the Make Hollow Function
• Adding Lights
• Adding Sectors
• Exporting and Running your Map

If you don't know how to do all of those things, take a look at those tutorials. If you do know these things, then you can continue with this tutorial. Below is a table of contents that outlines what each page teaches:

• Page One
• 1. Using Clipping Mode
• 2. Copying and Rotating Brushes
• 3. Resizing Multiple Brushes
• 4. Making Sky, Fog, and Music
• Page Two
• 5. Edge and Vertex Manipulation
• 6. Multiple Selections
• 7. Selecting and Manipulating Individual Surfaces
• Page Three
• 8. Arbitrary Sided Brushes and the Subtract Function
• Page Four
• 9. Making an Exit Out of Your Map
• Page Five
• 10. Placing Sectors
• 11. Finishing Up

Click here to begin...