Add a basic editor template with a Map Instance and example Player Controller

[fantasticaneer]

For?

S&Box, Hammer

What can't you do?

Presently for people who only want to make maps/levels and models, they tend to get pretty frustrated when there isn't a basic template available for the sorts of stuff you'd want to do.

With the removal of Content Mode, a common occurance in the S&box discord is people saying things like:

I think the editor is mature enough now that it would be good to have a basic "test your hammer map" template even if it needs to change/be improved in the future.

How would you like it to work?

I think that having a good handful of editor templates in the future would obviously be good, but for now we need the absolute basics for people to stop complaining about the lack of Content Mode.

FPS Base A first person base with an example Player Controller on a Citizen.

FPS Base & Map Instance A first person base with a Map Instance and an example Player Controller on a Citizen that you can use to load a Hammer map and run around in it.

What have you tried?

Informing people of this process:

• Create a Map Instance component
• Write the filepath to your map in the text box (ie: maps/mymap.vmap)
• It should immediately load automatically as soon as the full filename is in there
• If you want to walk around in it add a Skinned Model with citizen.mdl
• put a Character Controller component on him
• Download the PlayerController.cs from scenestaging and put it in /code/, then add the Player Controller component to your citizen as well
• Drag the character controller into the character controller spot on the Player Controller component
• Hit F5 or Play

For many people this is too much just to test a map.

Additional context

I get that 'the most permanent solution is a temporary one' and there's a fear of getting locked into doing things a certain way if you do them now, but I think it's worthwhile to add a basic hammer map testing editor template now to stop people getting confused and frustrated when they just want to make levels and have no interest in creating their own game.

[msuddaby]

The little tutorial you wrote actually helped a lot, thanks lol

[garrynewman]

We need to have a think about how best to do this. I suspect if we just add this now we're going to end up disrupting things again in a few months.. so we'd be better off taking our time and having a think about how it's going to fit into the wider system.