I'm going to start making some short tutorials on how to do various things in the editor. Others are welcome to post tutorials in here as well.

Here's the first one:

Map Editor Tutorial: Linked Checkpoints (Length: 3:18)



I also wrote this text tutorial back in July. Originally posted on MP Forums:

eyebo says:

A little more about Linked Checkpoints, for those who want to know how to use it:

Linked CPs are for having CP groups. You only have to pass through one CP in the group to trigger the whole group. So instead of triggering every CP in a map in order to finish, you only need to trigger one CP in each group.

Respawns for each CP still work the same. You respawn at the CP you triggered.

You can access this feature by placing several CPs, and then clicking the wrench icon at top left in the Map Editor. Then click on one of the CPs in the map.

You'll next see a dialog on the right side that looks like this:



In the dialog, click on the chain-link icon, leave group set to 1, and hit OK. Now the CP is a LinkedCP in group 1.

Do the same for additional CPs. Assign all the ones to group 1 that you want linked together and continue for other groups if you want more than one set of linked CPs.

In the example image above, I have 2 groups of CPs.

Have fun with it!

Hello ManiaExchange,

Here's a second tutorial:

Map Editor Tutorial: Install Mods (and put them on old maps).

You can download some mods and their locators on Maniapark , here or on the thread dedicated to this on the Forum.

After downloading the mod you want you have to place it into Documents/Maniaplanet/Skins/[Environment]/Mod/ ,
If "/Mod/" doesn't exist , create it.

Don't unzip the mod !

Let's take the example of Valley (Documents/Maniaplanet/Skins/Valley/Mod/)
After downloading the mod open Maniaplanet , create a new map , save it and quit the editor,
Hold Ctrl+click to reopen your map ,






Now you can choose the mood and the mod ^^
You can of course do such things on your existants maps.

Happy mappings !

akiliyh