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Scenario Editor O.R.B. Environment Tutorial So, you’ve played through the campaigns, the skirmishes and have enjoyed the multiplayer aspect of O.R.B. thoroughly. Now you are ready to create new worlds that you can explore, conquer and show off to all your friends! But upon trying out the Editor you quickly realize that you have no idea how this damn thing works... right? Well fear not, we are here to guide you! ORBEditor isn’t exactly the easiest of tools when you start off, but it will quickly become second nature once you grasp the basic concepts, including the fundamentally important "CTRL-SHIFT-ALT" command key combination. Let’s start now! Starting with a Blank World Adding a Light Source (Sun) Adding Planets to Your Map Adding Moons to Your Map Creating an Asteroid Group Creating Asteroid Clusters Customizing Asteroids Further Creating a Debris Field Creating a Star Field and Nebula Effects Adding Units and Adjusting Game Settings Download the Word document that contains this entire tutorial (2 MB) O.R.B. Textures You may want to customize the way the game looks. This document contains a list of all asteroid, moon, nebula and planet textures that you can change in your game directory with your own images. Asteroid Textures Moon Textures Nebula Textures Planet Textures O.R.B. Basic Cinematics Tutorial This section will help you add a bit of cinematic flare to your environments. Make sure you've read the Environment Tutorial before proceeding with the following documents. Part 1: Section Name Part 2: Cameras Download the Word document that contains this entire tutorial (213 KB) O.R.B. Triggers Tutorial So you made quite a few environments and awesome looking multi player maps, but you find that they all lack activity and dynamic properties within them. This is where Triggers come in play. Putting Action Into the Environment Placing Ships Trigger 1: Initialization Trigger 2: Mine Is Built Trigger 3: Reinforcements Trigger 4: New Objective Display Trigger 5: Ping! Trigger 6: Investigate Trigger 7: Investigate Objective Making Zones Trigger 8: Player Brings a Ship to Zone1 Trigger 9: Communication from Nimbus 5 Trigger 10: Bring in Carrier Trigger 11: Win Condition - Fighters Trigger 12: Win Condition - Cargo Ship Trigger 13: Victory Trigger 14: Defeat Download the Word document that contains this entire tutorial (920 KB) Other Resources Be sure to drop by the scenario editor forum to exchange tips and tricks with other designers. Scenario Editor Forum Copyright © 2002 Strategy First Inc. All Rights Reserved.