The most requested feature EVER is finally here: the LEVEL EDITOR! After one year from the release of the game on Early Access, I thought it was about time to allow people to create their own content. I wanted to create a level editor in line with the minimalistic style of the game, yet powerful and easy to use. And I think the current one hits all of these three! :D
The level editor allows to:
- Create celestial bodies. There are several types of celestial bodies you can create within the editor. They are all labelled as planets, even though their appearance and properties will changes according to their size. The editor currently supports asteroids, rock planets, gas giants and stars. And of course, their anti-gravity counterparts...
- Design orbital mechanics. 0RBITALIS is a game about gravity. And the editor has all the tools you need to decide how what is orbiting around what. There is also a nice support for group moving, which allows to relocate celestial bodies retaining their relative angles and positions. In addition, you have full control over the angular momentum of all of your celestial bodies.
- Create probes and anti-probes. Advanced levels in 0RBITALIS allow you to control several probes at once. The editor gives you the same power ...and much more. There is a feature which is unique to the editor and not available in any other level of the game. ANTI PROBES! You can have probes with negative mass, which will be attracted to anti-gravity and repelled by the good 'ol Newtonian one. Oh, did I forget to mention that they are blue? :D
- Share your creations on the Steam Workshop. You can share all of your levels with the Steam Workshop. It is also accessible directly from within the game, so that you can browse and subscribe to other levels without even closing or minimising 0RBITALIS. All the levels are automatically names with a star-y name; you can change that from the Steam Workshop.
Of course, there are lot of things which are still missing. For instance, you cannot vote levels ...yet.
As always, thank you so much to all the players who followed 0RBITALIS since Alpha 1. Your support has been amazing and I hope you'll like this new update.
GO MAKE SOME SOLAR SYSTEMS! NOW!
