Stage Editor tutorial

and in the grey grid-map thing

They are always represented by these, regardless of what object it is for.

The number of spawn points are fixed to 5 for each team, so plan ahead as needed.
Also, TEAM0 = Alpha
       TEAM1 = Bravo

Moving and changing height of the spawn point:

Powerspot_0 = Alpha powerspot
Powerspot_1 = Bravo powerspot

A thing to note is that the square represents where the powerspot's effect will hit, not the powerspot's body itself.

As shown here:

You can also put a maximum of 2 powerspots for each team, but there is no known way to make their respawn points change when they get destroyed (if you do know of one, message me). Other than that, powerspots aren't that much different to the other objects.

To begin, select your preferred object in the dropdown menu.



Then, click the Attach button to put a "group" of the selected object.

example:

After that, drag the DROP THIS button to the grid area to put it into the map.

Spoiler:

You now know everything else about those from the previous two subsections. It's up to you what to do with thooose.
yes i put a metacactus because i like them

Range is used to determine how far a light reaches and also its intensity.

From this...:

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...to this:

Colour determines the, well, colour of the light. Need I say more?

From this...:

...to this:

Not much is known about Type other than if you change it to SPOT, it'll completely obliterate all shadows(again, iirc). Please experiment on this yourself, and if you want, tell me about it so I can update this part and add relevant pictures.

Shadows make it so that your lights  cast shadows over objects, but only under certain conditions I haven't been able to reproduce enough times to make sure. Maybe later.

I'm pretty sure healing water has been featured in GM or black11 maps(?), atleast, while browsing the forums, that is what I've found about.That aside, healing water is basically water that deals negative damage,minus the twitchy circuit-frying sound effect triggered and flashing that normally occurs.Yadda-yadda... let's just get down to the awesome part: actually doing it!

1.Open Cheat Engine, click the somewhat-rainbow glowing button and attach it to a process called cosmic.exe

2.Change the Water Damage value to something obvious like 333 (and press Enter if you typed the value)
3.Go back to Cheat Engine, pick Float as the value type and put the Value textbox with whatever number you set it to like this, then click "First Scan".

4.There should be a few hundred results(or more if you set it lower)matching the number. Change the number in the editor again to another number, then on CE click "Next Scan".

5.Repeat until there is only one value left(if there's none then you did it wrong)
6.Change it to a negative value of how much you want it to heal by doubleclicking the value in the left table in CE, then the bottom table and changing it and clicking ok.

Freezing the value is optional.

Alternate way:

done

You know, set objects higher than 40. The sky is QUITE the limit!(Wait, what did I just say...?)

1.Put any part that you want to put at a height higher than 40
2.Adjust its height to 40, and then on CE do a scan for 40 in 4 bytes(click on "New Scan" first if you do this directly after the previous one)
3.Find the value, set it to how high you want it to be, and freeze the value by clicking the checkbox as shown.Then change the height again, and it should be stuck to the height you set it to be.


Notes:
this applies to every part in which you change its height
maximum height is around 70 or so, parts lose texture and eventually left unrendered entirely after 70

Do you like skydiving? No money to do it? Just make it happen in CB!(but don't you play gta...?)
This will teach you how to make terrain higher than 10.

1.Adjust the height slider to 10.
2.Search for 10 in 4 bytes
3.Repeat until one value remains
4.Add the address and change it to a value of your preference


notes:
freezing the value is optional as you will need to frequently change it anyways
maximum height is 39 and any polygons get eaten by an invisible void after that

First, for any cave you'd want to start with either CAVE01, CAVE_ENTER01 or CAVE_ENTER02. From left to right, here are how they look like(and should be place on the editor's grids).

Note how they have to placed in the grids (in which otherwise they won't be functioning as they should).

If you don't do that properly, it'll probably look like this(it's actually rather a often occurrence).

To not let that happen, you should make sure that the cave entrance is placed with a balance of two even numbers, to put it in complicated math terms(in other words it will be having 2,4,6 squares to it sides and so on, not 1,3,5), like this:


(Or you can be lazy and use the dull, industrial nature07 standard set since its caves are all flat...)

Now, to put a cave part inside the cave! For smaller cave, use CAVE_02, and for the normal one, use CAVE_STRAIGHT1. By those two, it's pretty obvious how they are grouped together in the sense of finding other parts for them.

First, put a normal cave part that you want to put into the cave(here will be shown CAVE_straight01).


Then, change the height to a negative value accordingly until it fits just right (move the part around if needed) like this.


Same goes for other cave parts, put, adjust height to underground if needed, done. But there's a special stepchild in the cave parts.

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Said stepchild:

Oh, and on notes about caves...
Making a cave deeper than -3 depth will result in bots teleporting back to level 0 by the power of a somewhat restrictive invisible safety net. So, if you want to make deeper tunnels, just raise the terrain levels first (this is where the third lesson comes useful).
Mirroring it, like any other part, has to be done manually.

Now, to make ceilings.This is another annoying part, but it's kind of a basic thing that you will need to use anyway in the end. I'll explain it in a short form since all ceiling parts usually use the same basics.
First, put one of the roof parts that don't have a red line in 'em, like ROOF_08.

As you can see in the picture, there's about 8 boxes we still can fill in the grid to complete the ceiling. That's what the ones with the red lines are for, so since it's actually rather simple, I won't show you the process, just a short summary:put part, change height as neccesary, repeat, done

It'll look somewhat like this in the end.



...yes, I may have gotten lazy but that's because Stage Editor is kind of too vast to explain in itself and if you can't figure out to operate the parts i didn't tell you then you probably need to reach the legal age to play cosmic break which is either pg13 or r-18.

no, really.