Clownfish's Step-By-Step Tutorials
From Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker
Currently Being Edited by Siimvuss
Contents
Getting, Installing and opening Sandbox
Learning the editor basics
- Map Editing Basics
- How to place 3D grass
- How to add lava, water, glass and other materials to your map
- How to make invisible boundaries
Building editing
- How to make sloped roofs
- How to make a hidden room
- How to make secret doors, walls & floors
- How to make 1-way windows only you can see out of
- How to make 1-way doors
- How to create a spiral staircase inside a hollow tower
- How to create a hollow tower/tube
- How to make a bathroom
- How to make stairs you could walk up
- How to create set of glass stairs
- How to make a TV
- How to make a tree house
- How to make a fish tank/swimming pool with a window
- How to make various window shapes
- How to make a pirate's lair
- How to make a lighthouse
- How to create a spiral staircase
- How to create an underwater base
- How to make a house fit for an ogre
Lighting and Particle effects
- How to add various lighting
- How to light a map properly
- Tips to make a night time map
- Tips to make a morning map
- Tips to make a sunset map
- How to add particle effects
- How to create snow or rain
- How to put fog in a map
Terrain editing
- How to create mountains, ponds, and oceans
- How to make a forest
- How to make a cave
- How to make a realistic river
- How to make a swimming pool with a diving board
- How to make a fountain
- How to make a fish pond
- How to create smooth curvy pathways
- How to create fields with flower patches
- How to create a camp fire and fireplace
- How to make a hollow pyramid
- How to make a bumpy road
- How to make various types of fences
- How to make a nice waterfall
- How to edit terrain properly
- How to fix bad terrain or geometry errors
- How to make railings
- How to make a small wooden bridge
- How to make a large stone bridge
NPC-s
- Creating a shop script
- How to make characters talk with text pop-up windows
- How to make characters talk with a voice recording
- How to make characters give you quests
- How to add bots and train them
Importing models to Sandbox
- Blender to Sandbox
- Wings3D to Sandbox flash tutorials
- Importing .OBJ files
- Loading and adding mapmodels
- How to add new models
Textures
Cubescript tutorials
TO DO/Sort tutorials
- How to make items that can be picked up
- How to make moving doors and platforms in single player mode
- How to add your own music
- How to create skymaps
- How to create other useful cube scripts in a game
- How to create a train
- How to create lens flares
- How to create a slide
- How to create a trampoline
- How to create electric fences
- How to create invisible tunnels
- How to create warp speed tunnels
- How to create climbable ladders and vertical walls
- How to create hidden teleports
- How to create spinning palm trees
- How to host a coop edit session over the internet
- How to host a persistent world in Sandbox over the internet
- How to capture screen shots and videos
- How to make ramps, bridges, and angles
- How to change gravity
- How to copy, paste, rotate, and resize cube builds
- How to transfer parts of a map to a new one
- How to save a map properly
- How to make a trigger load another map
- How to change textures in your map
- How to update your maps from SB version 2.3 to the current version
- How to add creatures
- How to add new colors of creatures and map models
- How to add more player character models
- How to make an endless slide
- How to make a robochimp throw you into the air
- How to make a snowman
- How to make a boat
- How to re size map models and textures
- How to monitor your dedicated server without being in it
- How to add projectiles to your game
- How to add a welcome message to your map or coop edit map
- How to change color of text in maps welcome message
- How to automatically save your map every x number of minutes
- How to copy a whole building and it's contents
- How to obtain SVN SB version, update it, and compile it
- How to contribute to the SB SVN
- How to contribute to the SB wiki
- How to make a sphere shapes in 'edit mode'
- How to make curved shapes in 'edit mode'
- How to make a launch tube
- How to make a working circus cannon
- How to create a wishing well with a round hole below in ground
- How to create an apple tree
- How to make a water slide
NOTE: Some of these step-by-step tutorials will contain fundamental info for learning sandbox, and other will just be ideas you can try for the fun of it. The latter is good stimuli for your imagination. Let see what you can do with these ideas when you take them and make them your new creations! :-D
