Level: Beginner
Scene Designer
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What is the Scene Designer?
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How to use the Scene Designer
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Survey of the Interface
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Tips & Tricks
What is the Scene Designer?
The Scene Designer allows you build levels for your game. Stencyl's term for "levels" is Scenes.
How to Use the Scene Designer
Summary: Stencyl works like Photoshop, Illustrator and other popular drawing apps.
Selecting & Moving Objects
To select a single object, click on it while the Select tool is active.
To select multiple objects, create a box around the objects you want to select by clicking the background and dragging, or CTRL + Click every object you want to select.
Once an item is selected, you can move it or change the layer it's on. To move an item or number of selected items, click and drag it/them. To change the layer items are on, right click them and click one of the send or bring items.
Adding Tiles
1) Select a Tile (or several!) from the Palette.
2) Click and drag around the main area to place them.
Tip: To select multiple tiles at once, click and drag to draw a box around the tiles you want to select. Selected tiles are indicated by a box with a yellow border.
Adding Actors
1) Select an Actor from the Palette.
2) Click to place the Actor. You can click and drag around to place multiple Actors.
Changing Layers (for an object)
1) Right-click the desired object.
2) You'll see this menu. Pick the desired option.
Task Bar
The topmost area of the Scene Designer lets you switch between different areas of the Scene Designer.
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Scene is the actual scene editing area.
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Behaviors allow you to manage the Scene Behaviors you have attached to this scene.
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Events lets you manage the Events you've attached to this scene.
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Physics allows you to adjust the physics settings for this scene, such as gravity.
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Background lets you manage both Backgrounds and Foregrounds.
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Properties allows you to set your scene's size, the background color and name.
Toolbar
The toolbar gives you control over what you can interact with in your scene and changes the current scene's display options.
Layer Mode
The Layer Mode determines whether your selections only grab from the current layer or from all layers (default).
Working Mode
The Working Modes let you work with specific kinds of objects within a scene.
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Actors and Tiles (default)
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Tiles Only
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Actors Only
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Joints
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Regions
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Custom Terrain
The Rest
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Take a Snapshot
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Show Backgrounds
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Show Foregrounds
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Show Scene Boundaries
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Show Grid
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Play Animations
Note: We're working on adding keyboard shortcuts to toggle between layer and working modes. These should arrive by Stencyl 2.5.
Toolbox
The toolbox controls which tools are currently active.
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Tools Group
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Select Tool
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Pencil Tool
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Fill Tool
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Scene Bounds Group
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Add Column
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Add Row
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Remove Column
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Remove Row
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Scene Objects Group (double-click to select box/circle/poly)
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Add Joint
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Add Region
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Add Custom Terrain
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Zoom In/Out
Palette
The Palette lets you select Tiles and Actors from your game.
Tip: You can select multiple tiles at once in the Palette by clicking and dragging the selection box.
Layers
The Layers pane lets you manipulate layers and toggle the visibility of them in the Scene Designer.
The color corresponds to the color used to draw the selection box. This lets you tell different layers apart when selecting multiple objects at a time.
Tip: You can double-click a layer to rename it.
Status Bar
The bottom part of the Scene Designer will show you the x and y coordinates of the mouse as well as the zoom factor.
Tips & Tricks
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Hold shift to snap your selection to the grid.
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Mouse over the corner of an actor, click and drag the rotate icon to rotate the actor.
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You can select multiple tiles at once in the Palette by clicking and dragging the selection box.
Last Updated: 2012-04-06 by Jon
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