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# Creating Custom Levels
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One of the core gameplay features is its Level Editor which lets you draw your
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own custom maps to play and share with others.
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From the game's Main Menu, click on the "Create a Level" button to open the
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level editor. To edit an existing custom level, click on the "Edit a Level"
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button instead.
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## Level Properties
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When creating a new level, you first choose some settings for it. These are
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described below:
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### Page Type
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This setting controls the size and boundaries of your level, and control the
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appearance of the notebook paper background of your level.
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* **Bounded** is the default. The camera won't scroll past the top-left corner
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of the page (0,0), and the level size is capped to 2550x3300, or the
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approximate size of an 11:9 standard sheet of notebook paper in pixels.
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* **No Negative Space** is like Bounded, but the width and height of the level
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have no boundary. Levels can grow "infinitely" to the right and downward
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but no negative coordinates past the top or left edge.
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* **Unbounded** allows for "infinite" sized maps that give unlimited room to
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grow your level. The wallpaper on this level type only uses the "tiling"
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pattern, so notebook-themed levels won't show the top/left decorations.
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### Wallpaper
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The wallpaper affects the "theme" of your level. Project: Doodle is themed around
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hand-drawn mazes on paper, so the built-in themes look like various kinds of
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paper.
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* **Notebook** looks like standard ruled notebook paper. It's a white paper with
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blue horizontal lines, a single red vertical line down the left, and a wide
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margin on the top and left edges.
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* **Legal Pad** looks like ruled yellow legal pad. It's similar to Notebook but
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has yellow paper and a second vertical red line down the left.
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* **Blueprint** is a dark blueprint paper background with a repeating grid pattern.
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Notably, the default Color Palette for this theme is different than normal:
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"solid" lines are white instead of black, to show up better against the dark
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background.
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The decorations of the wallpaper vary based on the Page Type. For example, the
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Notebook and Legal Pad have extra padding on the top of the page and red lines
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going down just the left side, and the rest of the level uses the repeating blue
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lines pattern. The page types and their effect on the wallpapers are:
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* **Bounded** and **No Negative Space** will show the decorations for the top
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and left edges of the page, as these levels are bounded on their top/left
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corner.
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* **Unbounded** levels only use the repeating tiled pattern across the entire
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level, because there is no top-left boundary to anchor those decorations to.
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## Editor Mode Interface
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Quick 5-minute tour of what you're looking at:
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* The top of the window has your **Menu Bar**:
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* **New Level** opens the "Create a New Level" menu.
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* **New Doodad** opens the Doodad Editor for drawing a new custom doodad.
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You're prompted for the size of the doodad, which will be its width and
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height boundary. For example, a size of "100" means a 100x100 pixel graphic
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for your custom doodad.
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* **Save** and **Save as...** let you save the current Level or Doodad you're
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drawing to disk. "Save" will only ask for the filename once whereas "Save as"
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asks every time.
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* **Load** opens the "Edit a Level" menu to choose a Level or Doodad to edit.
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* **Options** options the Level Options dialog so you can modify the page type
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and wallpaper setting.
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* The panel on the left side of the window is your **Tool Box**. Clicking these
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buttons activates a specific drawing tool or mode:
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* **Pencil Tool** lets you click, drag, and draw pixels of your selected
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Palette color onto your level freehand.
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* **Line Tool** lets you easily draw a straight line between two points. Click
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in your level where you want the first point to be, and drag your mouse to
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the second point. Release the mouse to commit the line to your drawing.
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* **Rectangle Tool** lets you easily draw rectangles on your level.
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* **Ellipse Tool** lets you draw circles or elliptical shapes.
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* **Doodad Tool** lets you drag doodads such as buttons and doors onto your
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level. See the [Doodad Tool](#doodad-tool) below.
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* **Link Tool** lets you link doodads together so that they can interact off
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each other. For example, a Button connected to an Electric Door will cause
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the door to open and close when the button is pressed. See [Link Tool](#link-tool)
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below.
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* **Eraser Tool** cleans up your mistakes. Click and drag over pixels you've
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drawn to delete the pixels from your level.
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* **Brush Size:** the "Size:" label shows the brush size of your current drawing
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tool. This translates to the line thickness, or how big your pixels are when
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drawn into the level. Click the + and - buttons to increase or decrease the
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brush size, and draw thicker or thinner lines.
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* The panel on the right side of the window is your **Palette** of colors to
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draw with.
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