fallen-aces-modding

[crude elk]

ok thanks

[echo oyster]

got it to work finalyl

let's see what's going on here

what

certainly a first level

[crude elk]

there's 8 dudes 4 fire axes and 1 car

idk what else you expected

there's also a floor sign

[echo oyster]

yeah??? why is it there

[crude elk]

because i put it there

[echo oyster]

0/10, misinformation

fake news

[crude elk]

[echo oyster]

i mena yeah it's certainly a first level

it's got things

[crude elk]

i was trying to make the gloomwood fishery but it was too hard so i decided to make 8 dudes 4 fire axes and 1 car

[echo oyster]

over ambition much???

make a playable map first

[crude elk]

i wasnt planning on finishing it i was just seeing how possible it was

[crude elk]

does this count as playable

[echo oyster]

oh it's possible, just learn the tools first!

[frank flicker]

yeah i also first wanted to make the dusk e1m1 but then settled on something simplier

[echo oyster]

i mean it at least launches

now you can try something with a goal

you can use the meredith (nightmobile) as a level end point

[crude elk]

ok

[echo oyster]

then you can try some simple scripting

it's kinda hard, but ask around here

i'll be glad to help

very nice to see a new soul getting into this

[crude elk]

where do i save my level before uploading it

[echo oyster]

hm?

just save it to a txt file

[crude elk]

mod must be saved before uploading

where do i put the save

[echo oyster]

oh

just wherever, it doesn't matter

just don't delete or lose it, you need it to update your map

[crude elk]

ok i uploaded the new version

can you test to see if it works

[echo oyster]

i have all mine saves in a special folder for example

[echo oyster]

yeah sure

[echo oyster]

oh also you can update your mods instead of bloating the workshop with fixes

just select the "load" option in the uploader and load the original .acesmod file

than replace the mod directory with the directory for the new version and BAM

update

[echo oyster]

ya did it wrong again

this is your setup

all your content here should be in another folder

8 dudes in this case

[crude elk]

sorry i had to go for a bit

[crude elk]

ok lemme try again

im 99% sure its not going to work this time either

[echo oyster]

dude stop uploading new workshop items every damn time 💔

[crude elk]

so
there's a file named 8 dudes
inside that there's another file named 8 dudes
inside that there's the attached photo

[echo oyster]

show the path

[crude elk]

i use the first 8 dudes folder?

[echo oyster]

the first folder is supposed to be named episodes

your mod folder works like your acesdata folder

so it goes

[crude elk]

so i use the episodes folder or the one above

[echo oyster]

Mod Folder \ Episodes \ 8 dudes \ episode info, levelm poster

Just like the actual game goes:

[crude elk]

so i use the one above the episodes folder?

[echo oyster]

AcesData\ Episodes \ Heart Of Glass \ episodeinfo poster chapters

[echo oyster]

use it for what

[crude elk]

put it in the mod directory in the mod uploader

[echo oyster]

yeah

[crude elk]

okay i uploaded it

i also deleted the others

it's not about getting this mod specifically to upload its about learning how to upload mods properly

okay well fuck i cant even find my new map on the workshop

oh it was because the preview image was too big

YES! IT FINALLY WORKS

[crude elk]

idk if i ping a single mod or the whole role

@quartz carbon

[quartz carbon]

.ban 1020235950430879784 bot

[crude elk]

picked one at random

[earnest rock]

:o: Banned adam_devourer_of_souls8967#0 (Case #43656) (user notified with a direct message)

[quartz carbon]

works for me

[crude elk]

thanks

[quartz carbon]

for future reference please do the ticket system

[crude elk]

ok

[crude elk]

they're in tenebris somnia channel too

[wanton estuary]

blue house

https://files.catbox.moe/x2lugw.png

[echo oyster]

Nice

Use flora models for the vegetation

[echo oyster]

Hey chataling can i print a variable with the show notification script?

[wanton estuary]

there desperately needs to be a way to view models in editor

its annoying booting the game constantly just to move a tree a couple inches to the side

even just an outline of the extents of the hitbox would suffice

[echo oyster]

flora models have previews

like the thing called flora model, it's very useful

try it out

[open hill]

When modeling a map. How do you make the walls into those see trough squares that you can pass trough?
I was checking out the Mansion level and figured out it showed a handy way of modeling exterior and interior floors by having each be on a new layer. But in order to get this to work, I need a reliable way to make two different squares to not block each other.

[flint onyx]

Click on the wall, select Plane Options, uncheck Visible and Solid

[open hill]

Ah. I tried that but it didn't yeld the square-cross texture. Will that appear automatically or?

[echo oyster]

do you have a texture applied to the invisbile plabe?

like anything different than the default one

[open hill]

As far as I am aware, my stuff is factory preset. Tough let me check.

Nah, I am just an idiot. who mistook the redness of the selection for it meaning that the plane texture itself was red.

It seems to work now. Though it does beg a simple question. Is there a way of resetting this aside from the undo button?

[echo oyster]

you can select invisible planes by holding tab

[open hill]

While in 3D mode? I keep trying but it dosen't seem to work.

[echo oyster]

oh shit i meant alt sorry

[open hill]

There, we go. Thank you so very much!

[echo oyster]

Oh and also embed assist
https://files.catbox.moe/x2lugw.png

Is this your first map, you're doin very well if so

Even if it aint your first map

[echo oyster]

Oh and you should so add orange street lights here

The contrast will be beatiful

[wanton estuary]

Nah I made Crystal Set for Sale a whole back

Im still super pissed it’s incompatible cause the files are on an old laptop and I cant figure out how to decompile workshop maps

I finally learned how to use SetMoveState so I can get rid of those door platforms

and that silly secret goon timing mechanism that may or may not have been discovered by anyone

[echo oyster]

Workshop maps are stored in steamapls/workshop/content/114419...

Not sure bout the numbers

Oh and please fix tge file size if you do reupload it

[wanton estuary]

I think packing core game files messed it up

[echo oyster]

Yeah, why the HELL did you do that

Map was 5 gigabytes

[wanton estuary]

it just came out that way lol and i really couldnt be assed to fix it

map making is annoying enough

[echo oyster]

Is it? It's really fun for me

[wanton estuary]

im used to gmod map making so sector geometry goes against every fiber of my being

as well as having to only work in plan view

and having no script documentation so i gotta experiment a bunch and stuff just starts not working for no reason

This new map has a giant conveyor belt that I spent several days trying to figure out

which currently only half works so i just have to pray nobody interacts with it for the 20 seconds it doesn’t work every 40 seconds, and that they dont stay on the map for more than 10 minutes lol since i cant figure out how to get a loop to work with ingame flags or in the script

but the brushwork is alot of fun when it works

[echo oyster]

You can pretty much do anything except for dragging vertices around in 3d tho

Oh and adding a thing

[echo oyster]

You could probably get a loop by typing simething like
While((Equal)1, 1)
{
}

Or something like that

Not sure tho, might wanna check

[wanton estuary]

Except rotate sectors along an axis other than y

[wanton estuary]

I’ll try to test that in the future

[echo oyster]

Ohhh yeah that

[wanton estuary]

There also desperately needs to be a measuring tool

[echo oyster]

I mean, rotating sectors isn't used that often

[wanton estuary]

It took me way too long to realize “1 unit” the entities referred to was 1 grid square at grid size 7

true but i couldve really used it in my map rn :(

[echo oyster]

Select the "lines" mode in 2d view and check the very bottom line of the console with a line selected

[wanton estuary]

I was measuring large objects out with the trigger entity for gods sake

[echo oyster]

There is a "length :" line

Absolute lifesaver

[wanton estuary]

dang i never thought to try that, nothing ever appears in the console I swear

[echo oyster]

Strange, it should appear if you hover over a line

[wanton estuary]

https://files.catbox.moe/tr80si.jpg

Is it possible for the edge of a slope to be completely flat when said edge is not orthogonal (i.e face is aligned parallel to x and z axis)?

The sector on the left is rotated 45 degrees and has the slope rotated 45 degrees, yet the edge of the slope is like .25 units thick and its ruining my build

as opposed to the right image which shows a completely flat edge

also we could really need a visual representation of the axis in editor for like MoveState reference

[wanton estuary]

adjusting floor height seemed to work but now I have a negative sector that has a positive height dif which may mess something up, oh well

[flint onyx]

Right now only 0, 90, 180, 270 slope rotation works properly, so 45 is bound to cause glitches

I've heard that this will be corrected after ep2 releases, we'll see

[echo oyster]

strange, website doesn't load for me

[echo oyster]

hey, is there a way to check if the player has died with scripts?

[teal axle]

maybe you can try using delia's damage logic as a workaround but idk if that would work

[echo oyster]

Old Hotch and Heavy lore

[open hill]

How large can a map be exactly?
Like, is the areal 1/4th of what the hammer editor has, or could I hypothetically make gm_bigcity as long as I keep the vertices number in check?

[echo oyster]

I dunno, try it

I remember a 2000 x 2000 square working just finr

It had nothing in it tho

It's like 4km squared play area

[echo oyster]

Oh and what are ya trying to do here?

[wanton estuary]

I think catbox only works for 24 hours

[wanton estuary]

trying to place a house diagonally so it contrasts with the other regular houses. The 45 degree slope is for the roof.

I hope the workaround doesnt render my map incompatible when the next update drops

thatd really suck to have happen AGAIN

[wanton estuary]

the gameplay in the map kinda sucks even with all the planning so it has to atleast look nice for this to have not been a wasted endeavor

[echo oyster]

Ok not to be rude but crystal radio was like totally you screwing up, not the update

[echo oyster]

Also what's the workaround

[wanton estuary]

lower the floor value so its below the ceiling. The sector properties show a positive height, but visually it looks like a negative sector

I havent tested extensively its interactions with other entities like lighting or pathing, but collision seemed fine when I stood on it

no positive sector space even appears below wedge, atleast I havent seen any

[echo oyster]

Might cause some serious rendering fuckery

[wanton estuary]

lol maybe

[frank flicker]

does this look good

[stark path]

yes

[echo oyster]

Something something cockored sharting

But yeah lowwaltzuinely looks pretty nice

[wanton estuary]

kickass

[echo oyster]

Made this event actually like kinda function if the player interrupts

[hallow laurel]

im so lost on how to make a note in the editor trey said in his video "make a note in a thing and put it in a thing"

[echo oyster]

Ok so first of all you'll have to write your note

[hallow laurel]

done ts

[echo oyster]

Create a subfolder inside of your level folder called "Notes"

inside of this folder make a .txt file

Notes are formatted in a specific way, you can check it out by looking at a note from an official level

so as you can see inside of your .txt file you'll have to make a general info section and then a section for each page of the note

these sections are seperated by these brackets {}

the first page consits of the note's name, the rest of the pages can have any text you'd like on them

the title that you write on the first page will be displayed in the journal

it's really easiest to just copy a note from an official level and change out the name and text

[hallow laurel]

accidentally broke my map then the editor crashed

[echo oyster]

what did you even do

[hallow laurel]

opened something wrong ig I got most of the map back in a pervious map save

[echo oyster]

uh huh

anyway uhh back to notes, shall we?

[hallow laurel]

I'll fix my map first

I can't mess this up

[hallow laurel]

Still doing some fixes to my map. Considering I have no idea how this note stuff works it will take my a while but we all got to start somewhere.

[hallow laurel]

still completely lost

[echo oyster]

where?

[hallow laurel]

everywhere. I took a break because I was just messing it up (yes im that bad please don't eat me)

can't even save it into the acesdata it just wants to save in documents

[echo oyster]

All parameters for the CreateDisturbance script command

[hallow laurel]

the mod shows up in my fallen aces menu now after doing some file stuff it has no poster and doesn't do anything when I click it (haven't finshed with file stuff)

got a lil distracted from trying to get notes in my map

[fierce forge]

Yes!!

[echo oyster]

it'd be very nice to have a no mantle parameter for these things

[wanton estuary]

Where can I view the parameters for other commands?

Is that file in the steamapps/common/Fallen Aces directory?

[astral fjord]

Is there an expanded SDK Document? I'd like to get some destructable geometry going but im a bit stumped. (I know I can just load in At Goons Gate to see an example but i wanted to give the discord a try)

https://discordapp.com/channels/240195284695646209/1378501435385315378/1451339842515632239, ok got the answer to the question. After checking I assume there's no expanded Doc?

[fiery tree]

It'll have information added to it with time

[astral fjord]

Oh, thats sick

[echo oyster]

Oh no, that was me digging trough source code

[echo oyster]

genuinely abysmal early BLOODRUST screenshot

like holy shit

[astral fjord]

For a moving geometry (on event) i think i just need a

• Referenced sector
• Event triggerer
• Script thing
• Move state thing
• Movable geometry thing
• Txt file in script folder
  Aside from filling them out correctly, is there anything else?

[echo oyster]

That's alla them

[astral fjord]

🫡

[wanton estuary]

also a single movestate cannot be simultaneously referenced by two seperate movable geometry

[astral fjord]

Though so, i’m doing a double sliding door, so I think I might just do double whole thing based off the same event

[astral fjord]

https://i.imgur.com/DO7Tryp.gif

wahoo, immersing my sim

[frank flicker]

dusk is a good source of inspiration

[frank flicker]

sector staircase or texture staircase?

[echo oyster]

EWWW STRETCHED TEXTURE ALERT!!!!!!!!!

[echo oyster]

uhh sector looks nicer but texture is easier to go up i think

[frank flicker]

also enemies cant use the sector staircase

[echo oyster]

ah right happened to me with the hotch heavy rope bridge

they don't like the gaps

add like an invisible ramp maybe

[frank flicker]

wait real

like in tf2 maps

[echo oyster]

literally oldest trick in the book

[wanton estuary]

I think all the source engine games do that for pathing

[astral fjord]

Are best practices for making a destructible wall without a visible crack just setting the wallcrack to scale 0?

[echo oyster]

what are you tryin to do with the wall

if you want the wall to only be destructible with an explosive you need a wall crack

setting the scale to 0 will just make it not work i think

if you want the wall to be breakable with regular damage just tick the "breakable with damage" box in the breakable geometry properties

[astral fjord]

Oh forgot about that one, thanks (the scale 0 crack does work in my experience though)

[echo oyster]

layout's pretty much done, just gotta add some buildings

custom textures probably won't take too long

[proud night]

Episode 2 before episode 2

[main grail]

how does secret trigger work?

i just placed it and that doesnt seem to work

[echo oyster]

Well it won't do anything by itself, you need to go to it's properties and select an event on which it's supposed to get found

[main grail]

ahhh ok

[main grail]

another question

what art software does fallen aces use

[echo oyster]

No clue, i don't think it matters tho

You can emulate the style in any software

[main grail]

it would just be easier

guess mspaint would be fine

[echo oyster]

Krita is right there and it's free

Or gimp

[main grail]

i actually do just like using mspaint

[echo oyster]

Oh damn

[main grail]

i was being genuine

[echo oyster]

Very well then

[main grail]

Halp

damn

i will just explain it

i have a note that one use triggers an explosion event and summon enemies event

but the explosion activates as soon as i enter the level

and i cannot dmg the enemies

is this common?

[echo oyster]

You must've screwed up your events tgen

[main grail]

aww flump

i will show you what i did

[echo oyster]

The explosion should be linked to the "event on use", not event on pickup

[main grail]

ahhh ok

but it works fine when i interact with the note

it just activate prematurely

and then activates again when i use the note

and what about invincible enemies

hold on i will record gameplay

[echo oyster]

Genyinely no clue

[echo oyster]

Yknow what just send that txt over, i'll look at it when i have some time

[main grail]

okey pokey

thank you kind sir

[echo oyster]

fixed it

i removed the event from the note's "event on pickup" field

it was probably causing issues as the goon has the note in his inventory

couldn't get the invicible enemies to occur

[main grail]

Ahh thank you!

I will implement when I have the chance

[frank flicker]

what is that

knifeguy jumpscare

[echo oyster]

holy shit he's gotta have some seriously jacked legs to do a fucking bunny hop like that

[frank flicker]

navmesh links will never fail to impress me

[echo oyster]

genuinely what are you even doing with nav mesh links to make enemies just kinda spawn in

and also fucking fly

[frank flicker]

IDK

[echo oyster]

you might've cursed your aceED by creating throttlin gooning 1 tbh

haunted geometry,

[frank flicker]

?????? did palooka just vanish into the barn

i wonder if i can make it even worse

[echo oyster]

speaking of nav mesh links

[main grail]

Is that an electric light?

How do you get that?

[main grail]

i did the thing. it works now. also the invincible enemies are no longer there

cheers mate

ok now

how do i add stuff to the note?

[echo oyster]

Ok so first up create a subfolder inside of your level folder called "Notes"

In the "Notes" folder make a txt file

Notes require some specific syntax, so the easiest way to add text to your note is to just copy the text from a note from an official level and then change out the text

Once you have the content of your note, go into AceEd

In AceEd make a note thing

The note thing has 2 important properties, show on event and path

Show on event is self explanatory

In the "path" window type in the name of your txt file (without file extension)

Note should show up in game

[main grail]

Thank oh AceEd prophet

[echo oyster]

givegadget flashlight in the console

[wanton estuary]

Will running this command in a script also give the player a flashlight?

also how long did you have to experiment in the console before you found that

[echo oyster]

I think so

You could also use the gadget in world thing

[echo oyster]

Found a screenshot of my oldest level

It was made before the release of AceEd

Even before the beta tests

So this was made with god damn notepad

[main grail]

thats actually impressive

[echo oyster]

Oh also it was based off an map belph made earlier

Which was a giant dirt planw

You can actually trace hotch and heavy part 2 back to that map, as they all pretty much share a chapter info

just modified heavily

[main grail]

bingeton lore

[urban juniper]

Deep lore

[frank flicker]

this was peak mapping in early 2025

[viscid tinsel]

nice

[echo oyster]

Consider a quick trip to the general store before your next saloon visit

[astral fjord]

terrific vibes

[rotund kiln]

what about the specific store

[echo oyster]

Thanks, it was real fun to make, since general stores are pretty much just full of random crap

[wanton estuary]

sneak peak

https://files.catbox.moe/kbu1g3.png

[echo oyster]

Why did he superglue himself to the wall

[wanton estuary]

spiderman

[astral fjord]

Umm, how do you delete "things"? I cant find it in the documentation.

No, i cant be that easy...

it was, i was hitting backspace 🤦‍♂️

[frank flicker]

select a thing in 2d mode and press the delete key

nevermind

[frank flicker]

which one do you prefer to use as light above doorways

or

[echo oyster]

Depends

But 1 is cooler

[astral fjord]

1 might encourage to player to use it as a platfrom, which is not necessarily a bad thing

[echo oyster]

Also 1 looks nice if you add curves to the pole on top

And maybe drag the vertices back a bit to make it less square

[astral fjord]

10 days no axe posting on the workshop

[rotund kiln]

ill learn acesED and fix that

[echo oyster]

Please just make something good💔

Or well

Put effort in

[viscid tinsel]

4746747 axes and 473674367387 dudes (your computer explodes)

[echo oyster]

6.. 7.. jdjjwjajwjjwiw

I might be an actual lobotomite

[viscid tinsel]

touch grass, bingass

breathe some fresh air

abandon the lead for at least once second

[astral fjord]

Take a break for six or seven minutes

[viscid tinsel]

eeeeeeeeeexactly

six or seven minutes outside, touching grass

breathing some fresh polluted city air

and then going back to eating lead

[echo oyster]

Ingesting carbon dioxide instead of lead sounds pretty fun

[viscid tinsel]

you'll come back to lead eating with a fresh mind and new perspective to put into your levels i'm sure

[echo oyster]

St Andrey Metropolitan or Rockysprings, which one's the vibier?

[astral fjord]

St Andrey Metropolitan, you get that nice urban tension between intention of appearance and reality. Though its very close.

[frank flicker]

is it similiar

[echo oyster]

Hotch and heavy part 2 playtest!

[echo oyster]

yeah

[echo oyster]

warning, this shit is still unfinished!

[wanton estuary]

Are textures for the next update being pushed into the main game branch? I swear I see new textures everytime I work on my map

i hope they dont revert it too far I've already started using PD doors in my map lol

[main grail]

Can you make hotch and heavy set in kazakhstan

Spend multiple years learning kazakh to rerecord all voice lines in kazakh

[echo oyster]

Not actively, there was an update adding some e2 textures a while back

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1369386735255158950/1402050446293471263/caption.gif

Hotch and heavy never

[astral fjord]

New Axes entry supposedly in the works 🔥 🔥 🔥

[echo oyster]

Yeah sure i'll take anything atp💔

[frank flicker]

atp i should just credit dusk in the workshop description

it gave me a lot of ideas for tg2

[astral fjord]

https://imgur.com/a/ygkrBVX

[echo oyster]

House

[echo oyster]

peak modding in like mid 2025💔

[clever furnace]

I made a tank but I have no way of posting because I don't have a rank yet

[echo oyster]

post it to like imgur or something and paste the link in

[clever furnace]

Can't

I'm british

[echo oyster]

yikes

catbox maybe?

[clever furnace]

What's catbox

[echo oyster]

file hosting website thing

pretty good

[clever furnace]

ah

thank you

[clever furnace]

https://files.catbox.moe/m0p3cs.png

[astral fjord]

That rocks

[teal axle]

thats one cool ass tank

[clever furnace]

thank you

[echo oyster]

oh yeah that's pretty damn cool

i forgot if tires have a rotated variant of the texture, but if they do, consider changing these to be vertical

[clever furnace]

they do, and this was done on purpose

[echo oyster]

ohh

aight

[clever furnace]

since its tank tracks

[echo oyster]

not a tank scientist guy or anything

right yeah

[clever furnace]

neither am I

[echo oyster]

forgot how treads work

[astral fjord]

Does anyone know what script handles the slow door break in the intro of e1m1?

[echo oyster]

HitDoor()
(onGoonsArrived.txt)

[astral fjord]

Terrific, thanks

[clever furnace]

guys how do I make water

like in water under the bridge

[echo oyster]

liquid box thing

[clever furnace]

ah

also how do I make a fence

[echo oyster]

elaborate

[clever furnace]

actually nevermind

[main grail]

This architecture doesn't look Cornish at all

[echo oyster]

someone wasn't paying attention to the deep hotch n heavy lore

mike only builds a teleport machine during part 2, so he couldn't teleport to cornwall before

[main grail]

RIP

Are you gonna release a lore video

[main grail]

how do i tie a note to a note pickup

[frank flicker]

make the note pickup a usable, then have the note event on use, for example event 4, then have the note show on event 4

[high dome]

hello
I was curious if replacing textures like mike's face or fists is currently supported through workshop compatible modding, or if that would require using bepinex or something?

[echo oyster]

oh no, you can only replace sprites for like props and decals

[high dome]

got it

[echo oyster]

what were ya tryna do?

[high dome]

oh I just had an idea for putting a friend's character in the game over mike since they're kind of similar, but it seems like that wouldnt work
yeah I know it would be a huge amount of work but just starting with replacing the hud portraits lol

[echo oyster]

nah, nothing of the sorts is possible, it's just custom levels for now

[high dome]

👍

[main grail]

fallen aces doesn't recognise chinese text 💔

Also how do I make water not see-through?

When I use the fog value it only works when you are in water not outside of it

[echo oyster]

Yeah if you're changing the liquid box settings it'll only work on the liquid box

[main grail]

RIP

[echo oyster]

Change the global settings

[main grail]

oh thats curious

[echo oyster]

There's a fog thingamabob there

[echo oyster]

Elaborate

[main grail]

lemme pull up photo

by photo i mean video @echo oyster

[echo oyster]

Make an inverted sector, give it a liquid texture, make the floor and ceiling not solid

[main grail]

lol that kinda convoluted

ok i will try later

[echo oyster]

Not really, just make the water texture a plane

[main grail]

oh ok

thanky kind saar

[hallow laurel]

I haven't used the editor in like 2 weeks thats not very good for learning it but I'll get back on it at somepoint

[echo oyster]

Lock in!!!

[clever furnace]

hey, how do I make a custom faction

[astral fjord]

It’s mentioned in the latter half of trey’s Ace ed video I think

Away from my pc but it looks like you toss

faction_color = 0 "red";```
into the chapterinfo txt

He mentions it here (58:36): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMco6ol2Ewc&t=3515s

[clever furnace]

I probably should of watched that video

[astral fjord]

It's a good source of knowledge, but not entirely necessary to have fun modding

LETS GO, IM A GOON NOW

Whats the plan boss? Sorry boss makes the rules, Im just a ref with a gun. What was that?! Oh just a shattered bottle, probably fell from a shelf that I cant see in this dark room.

[echo oyster]

the plan is to post a sneak peak right now you knucklehead! boss told us that if we don't get more sneak peeks here he's gonna bite more than just our fingers off damn it!

[astral fjord]

Oh yeah, I've done my part. This job is so easy, you just need to get one sneak peak and repost it every week. Boss is gonna have no problem with me.

[echo oyster]

REPOST!? listen the boss' already got my balls in a vise grip, repost ain't gone cut it!

[clever furnace]

I've been trying to make a room like the barber shop, like it's got an interior but it's also an outside that is viewable how am I supposed to do this?

[echo oyster]

ok so for the interior room just make a normal sector

then, to make the walls from the outside, use inverted sectors

[clever furnace]

dammit that's what I did before

and I undoed it

[echo oyster]

make the inverted sectors invisible from the inside so that they don't clash with the interior sector

and if you want like windows and doors, cut up the interior sector and make the section where the hole is supposed to be invisible and non solid

[echo oyster]

OH AND FOR YOUR OWN SANITY!

make the interior and exterior on separate layers!

[clever furnace]

THAT'S WHAT I DID

[echo oyster]

good, good just keep it like that

[clever furnace]

When I added the windows it broke

[echo oyster]

how did it break?

[clever furnace]

I don't know

it just broke

[echo oyster]

yeah but like how did the "breaking" look like

what was wrong

[clever furnace]

the walls started clipping

Even though I already made them invisible

they just because visi-

Oh I think I realise what happened

[echo oyster]

yeah walls become visible when you cut them

[echo oyster]

playtesting is very serious business where no fun is allowed

[main grail]

MAPLE LEAF RAG!!

should try and find a way so the civilian never turns around

absolutely unplayable now

[main grail]

thoughts?

[echo oyster]

Grove

[echo oyster]

hey uhh you forgot the notes

but yeah what can i say

it's certainly a map

[main grail]

Oopsie doop

Will send them later

[main grail]

Yeah.

For my first map it's fine....

It's a map of all time

[echo oyster]

exactly it's a first map

[main grail]

I'm mostly just adding crap in without thinking about cohesion

[echo oyster]

yeah that's a good way to learn it

learn how to do everything important before making a coherent level

[main grail]

Learning experience

[frank flicker]

messing around with dusk textures

[viscid tinsel]

aces x dusk fusion level??

[echo oyster]

we already got an aces textures level for dusk, only fair to flip the script

[viscid tinsel]

🙂‍↕️

[echo oyster]

how do i even set up checkpoints without objectives

saw the checkpoint location thing but it doesn't really seem to do anything

[echo oyster]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeIuuT11ayE

[echo oyster]

Big things happenin' in March
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykJKR716BdE

[echo oyster]

we need more mod trailers

[astral fjord]

They are very fun

[echo oyster]

i think that the only other fallen aces mod with a trailer is umbutchers

very sads

[astral fjord]

Hopefully the multimillion dollar franchise has one for its next entry

[echo oyster]

multimillion dollar franchise?

[astral fjord]

You know, the iconic multi-part fallen aces map series

[echo oyster]

no

what is the multibajillion dollar franchise

[frank flicker]

cant believe the big b forgot about the dudes and fire axes

[echo oyster]

oh, that

right

dudes and fallen axes

[frank flicker]

the reason throttlin gooning 2 was delayed so many times was to not steal the spotlight from dudes and fire axes

[echo oyster]

whatever you say

[astral fjord]

A tragedy, loved 1’s combination of highier effort & lower brow

[echo oyster]

just made the best texture pack ever

[main grail]

person who made that series is a fucking genius i tell you

they would have been able to take over the world if they were not making mind blowing fallen aces maps

[frank flicker]

any news on when the updated editor becomes available for public use?

[echo oyster]

episode 2 i'd assume

[frank flicker]

sounds reasonable

[echo oyster]

Average evening in Rockysprings

[echo oyster]

Some of the original pictures behind the Hotch and Heavy adverts

[frank flicker]

does this texture look out of place

[echo oyster]

Kinda yeah

[echo oyster]

Send that texture over

[frank flicker]

literally just took it from dusk

[echo oyster]

Hmm yeah gimme a moment

[echo oyster]

nah that one is too pixelated for a watercolor filter

[frank flicker]

it'll probably wont matter that it looks out of place since you wont see this texture up close

[frank flicker]

is this reactor envirovement friendly?

[echo oyster]

Holy shit dingleberry made a dark fountain in his basement, crazy

Fucking awesome tho

[echo oyster]

Do add some reverb tho

[flint onyx]

Gravedigger

[echo oyster]

Holy shit good slopes

[frank flicker]

cool shovel

[frank flicker]

i think the reactor is gonna have a similar feel to the golden tower where you can see it throughout the level and finally enter it at the end

[echo oyster]

JASON ADD SPOT LIGHTS TO EPISODE 2 AND MY SOUL IS YOURS!!!

[echo oyster]

Rare footage of civ male playing something that isn't Maple Leaf Rag
https://x.com/BingassFA/status/2024921445587988884

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X · Feb 20, 2026, 6:57 PM

[viscid tinsel]

i like how bro is still playing while you do that

bro is in the zone and cannot be taken out

[clever furnace]

would it be possible to make springfield

hypothetically

nevermind

I forgot how big springfield is

I'm not making that

[echo oyster]

Realest shit spoken on this channel?

[main grail]

Make a Springfield 1903 instead

[echo oyster]

hotch n heavy prequel???

[echo oyster]

Since mike has to leave town for e2 imagine if we get a new hideout

And a system for episodic hideouts

Imagine custom hideouts

[frank flicker]

already possible

just change the hideout.txt file

[echo oyster]

that'll screw up the base game tho, won't it

[frank flicker]

didnt check

[echo oyster]

well yeah you're replacing the hideout file

it's gona replace the hideout

[frank flicker]

oh thought you meant its gonna break

my dumb palooka cant read

[echo oyster]

https://x.com/BingassFA/status/2025641417918341292

Bingass (@BingassFA)

HOTCH N' HEAVY'S OUT!
https://t.co/NRpBwrCCQl

X · Feb 22, 2026, 6:38 PM

[jade wind]

Hey, trying out the new map, How am I supposed to get up onto the dock that goon is on at the town? I don't see a way up to get to him

[echo oyster]

you can mantle onto the rocks there

there's a little sloped bit

[jade wind]

Ayo there's a hole here in this cell.
Also, so far at least, map is really hard and really dark. It could use some more weapons and healing items. Some spots could also use some guiding light, those rocks to get out of the lake are across from the dock and the dock really grabs my eye when I get to the town. Having there be a lamp or something by those rocks to get out would make it clearer. Same with the tunnel when the bridge blows earlier, I presumed the tunnel the goons came out of was a dead-end monster closet.

[echo oyster]

what difficulty are ya playing on?

[jade wind]

Easy. I know, I know, skill issue.
However, there's a lot of enemies with ranged weapons, more so than there are weapons so far. Generally just a metric ton of enemies period.
Even on easy, when there's this many enemies that you're resorted to fight bare-handed, that can start to chip away at a players health.
The level is also really dark and it's hard to tell what's going on and where to go. A lot of these locations seem to be made as spaces first and don't mesh as well as they could in the flow of a level.
Visually impressive and likely took you a lot of time, but the visuals can only carry so far when this optional area looks good but is filled with so many enemies that the usable resources I have run dry before I figure out that I didn't have to go into that space to begin with. The little police station has like 40 dudes in it as an example.

[jade wind]

I do like the radiators though

[main grail]

When they gonna add cornwall

[flint onyx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scezcSp29kc

[echo oyster]

how bout you hit the bricks pal

[main grail]

Think fast chucklenuts

[echo oyster]

why the hell are images not allowed on this channel what

[proud night]

Should we ask the mods about that or?

[frank flicker]

fixed now

[main grail]

how do i make table? like a table that is part of geometry? im not sure how to make the top as it sits above the legs

[echo oyster]

I'll record a little tutorial for ya when i get home

[main grail]

can youse see it?

[fiery tree]

Use inverted sectors to make each part of the table

should be a part in the basic mapping guide that explains them in detail

[fiery tree]

you should put the top part of the table on a different layer to make it easier as well

[main grail]

thanky kind saar! 🙏

[echo oyster]

big things coming with the episode 2 version of the editor

[main grail]

Glorious

[echo oyster]

glorious indeed

made that table btw?

[echo reef]

You have been given access to episode 2 version?

[echo oyster]

hell naw, that's just footage from vriska

[echo reef]

Ah!

[echo oyster]

i wish..

because holy shit is this amazing

[echo oyster]

https://fixupx.com/BingassFA/status/2028497120991273075

Bingass (@BingassFA)

Dingy

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FixupX · Mar 2, 2026, 3:46 PM

[main grail]

Nah not yet.

[sly steppe]

im getting roblox vibes for some reason

not a bad thing btw

[main grail]

made table now

[echo oyster]

Show table

[main grail]

legs look funky

[fiery tree]

you used normal, non-inverted sectors for the legs

try selecting them, going into properties and between "floor height" and "ceiling height" click the icon showing two arrows

it'll flip the sector to be inverted

[main grail]

table no longer has funky legs! tis a joyous day!

[echo oyster]

Normal legs? What's next? Teztures?

[main grail]

is it possible to make individual enemies stronger than usual?

[main grail]

no. teytures

[echo oyster]

Naw

[main grail]

awww man. i wanted a boss enemy

[echo oyster]

Spawn 50 malones

BLOODRUST type shit

[main grail]

i have molotov mook at end of hallway

i just wanted more hp so he wasnt complete push over once you sprint towards him

also stronker mollies

[echo oyster]

You could elevate him or sum to make it harder

And have a few enemies, molly mooks really don't too much on their own

[main grail]

nah i wanted a long hallway

its fine

maybe he will the boss's henchie

can you give them unique names?

i dont htink thats possible

maybe i give him unique gang name

how do i do that?

i saw you named yours ziad

i wish there were more online resource for this kind of thing

[echo oyster]

Go to the chapterinfo of any official level, you'll see some lines with function in them

Copy over those lines to your chapterinfo, change the name color and number if you wish

If you have multiple factions, they will always attack each other

[main grail]

oh so its impossible to make certain factions not attack each other?

[echo oyster]

Nah

Maybe with the more advanced faction relations in episode 2 it'll be possible

[main grail]

how does one change the faction name colour?

is it same as faction colour

[echo oyster]

There's a faction color line somewhre

[echo oyster]

Yeah the faction color determines the title only

[main grail]

ahh ok

thx

[tawdry parrot]

Molly mooks def work best when used somewhere high, same goes for snipers. Putting them in a strategic position is what makes em a threat.

[flint onyx]

https://youtu.be/DtMBfdxdGOQ

[shadow dew]

haven't made an aces map in a while

[main grail]

pretty lighting

[teal axle]

how much is the rent

i should get to it as well, but im kinda waiting for e2

[proud night]

Is this a reference to anything in particular or did you make this up on the spot?

[shadow dew]

it's not a reference to anything i just wanted to make a crappy apartment

[main grail]

real

[echo oyster]

Blue ass tv

[main grail]

Slurpee TV

[viscid tinsel]

https://tenor.com/view/i-want-to-watch-blue-but-my-bitch-wife-wants-to-watch-orange-gif-23322239

[main grail]

That's where I live

Are they actually called drug stores in america

[echo oyster]

Idk

[echo oyster]

https://fixupx.com/BingassFA/status/2031679598459527526

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Not only will the Benedettos murder you for money, they will also muck up YOUR own carpet with YOUR own blood! This is why I voted for Glassjaw damn it!

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FixupX · Mar 11, 2026, 10:32 AM

[echo oyster]

Why would that prevent you from making levels

[teal axle]

i wouldnt say it is, really

just been a bit out of the loop for too long, but ive been getting back to it

although i should really work on making actual levels and not just maps 🛌

[echo oyster]

vehicle pallete reference

[main grail]

Vee hicle

[echo oyster]

Piss icle

[echo oyster]

https://fixupx.com/BingassFA/status/2032835542748918270

Bingass (@BingassFA)

Screenie Saturday

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FixupX · Mar 14, 2026, 3:05 PM

[flint onyx]

Does anyone remember which radio channel number is used in chapter 3?

Either they're out of order or I'm confused about how many there are

Nevermind, it's 3. Guess I overshot the first time round

[flint onyx]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3685793919

Goon Theft Auto is out

[sly steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/mole-cute-cute-mole-kuroiwa-judgment-gif-7088429688355117093

[iron valve]

legit one of the best fallen aces mods out there

you've done an amazing job

[flint onyx]

Thanks, much appreciated!

[sly steppe]

You got any hints on where the rest of the secrets are?
I found only one which is in a ||vent||

I also don’t want to open level editor just to find them, feels cheaty despite playing a single player game

[flint onyx]

Another one is in the ||garage safe, but you need to find the code|| . Two more are ||on roofs of Orchard street houses, you need to look closer there||

[sly steppe]

the ||garage safe|| didnt activate secret command

let me double check

nvm it does

just need to collect the ||tripwire||

[echo oyster]

you should change the ||safe|| to trigger after ||it's opened||, not after ||the tripwire is taken||

in general make the secret items tied to other events, not picking the item up, makes it way less annoying to secret hunt, if someone doesn't end up taking the item

[sly steppe]

alright

now i see why you actually remake San adreas into fallen aces

artstyle

[flint onyx]

ok

[echo oyster]

https://fixupx.com/BingassFA/status/2035670933759775089

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FixupX · Mar 22, 2026, 10:52 AM

[flint onyx]

"Water, water, water! Where's the water?!" - while running on puddles

[main grail]

Don't the goons drown in large bodies of water?

[echo oyster]

I don't think that'll cut it boss

[flint onyx]

Stop, drop and roll still should be better than on a dry floor

It's not like he's completely soaked in gasoline

[echo oyster]

Too bad the goons are stupid

It's impressive how they stay on their legs somehow tho

[frank flicker]

what do you call the measurement unit in fallen aces maps

is it like doom where its map units

[flint onyx]

In hammer editor it's hammer units, so I say we call them AceEd units

[echo oyster]

goon units

[jade wind]

Goonits, for short

[main grail]

"Yeah so that room should be around 5GUs long"

"GU? What does that stand for?"

"Goon Units"

[echo oyster]

Yeah i got 5g in my house. Five goons

[echo oyster]

don't ever trust no man who doesn't fuck with somewhat imposing art deco towers

[proud night]

Are you still making that big 1980's Russian level?

From awhile back

[echo oyster]

Maybe later

It's also not russian

[echo oyster]

https://fixupx.com/BingassFA/status/2039476300734210445

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FixupX · Apr 1, 2026, 10:53 PM

[flint onyx]

Any idea what might be causing these flashes / texture glitches?

Are there any rules to making water to prevent these bugs? I have one sloped, non-solid brush, liquid entity is at the same height

[echo oyster]

so the water plane has a slope? maybe that's the problem

only seen flat water planes in the levels i played so far

[flint onyx]

I think I had the same problem with cuboid brushes because the ocean floor was made up of some sloped sectors

Tried it again and it was even buggier due to sector overlap

[tawdry parrot]

you gotta make your water sector thinner

it ain a bug, what you are seeing is the small gap between the sector. If you make it paper thin, have the ceiling and floor height the same should fix that.

[flint onyx]

Ahh, so it's supposed to be just the water surface?

Yep, that fixed it. Thanks!

[echo oyster]

jason im begging you if you're reading this please add model previews for everything in the editor

[tawdry parrot]

You think you're the only one?

Also don't stick the cigs in there manually, that's pyscho. Use the inside entity feature.

[echo oyster]

YOU CAN DO THAT???????

[tawdry parrot]

that the only way to do it.

[echo oyster]

Also did you consider using the caustics water texture instead? Would probably fit a tropical theme better

[main grail]

It's lore building. The local water supply has been polluted by foreign fishing vessels dumping waste in local waters

[flint onyx]

I tried it but didn't like how it looked. It's sunset, so the darker ocean texture I have now makse sense

[clever furnace]

I can finally talk here now

[main grail]

How doth one add texture to the ladders

[echo oyster]

Make an inverted sector

[main grail]

Oh God do I actually have to make ladder models manually

[echo oyster]

You can't add textures to the ladder thing, it's just supposed to be placed over an inverted sector

[echo oyster]

Texture

[main grail]

That's mega fatty ngl

Would have thought for such a small and common item it would have it's dedicated piece

[echo oyster]

It does as i said there's a ladder texture

[main grail]

Oh I thought you were just correcting me

Le kewl

[echo oyster]

Just make a tall rectangle and apply a ladder texture to it

[main grail]

Wait really? I don't need to make each rung?

[echo oyster]

And then place the thing over the sector for the climbing

[echo oyster]

No, the ladders are all flat, take a look at the ones in the base game

[main grail]

My mind be playing tricks on me

[main grail]

this is the kinda shit lovecraft imagined in his schizophrenia

i dont know whats wrong. all sectors are neg

my entire map is buggin out. i didnt even change anything relevant to these areas

[echo oyster]

Did you set any high values in editor? Because it doesn't like high values

[main grail]

uhhh shit maybe

one of the walls for a new building is like -3.099999 recurring or something like that

[echo oyster]

Hmm, maybe, maybe

[main grail]

this

it worked fine before though

[echo oyster]

Altrough i was talkin more about like 99999999 kinda stuff

But its worth a try

[main grail]

it happened after i made the ladder

[echo oyster]

Hmm, send it over, i'll troubleshoot later

[main grail]

wait is the global properties on a texture global to all textures

ok will send over now

thx again mate 🫡

[echo oyster]

It is global to that specific texture

[main grail]

ah ok

[frank flicker]

umburghium reactor ptsd

[echo oyster]

https://fixupx.com/BingassFA/status/2041613291072491953

Bingass (@BingassFA)

True goons stand near ridicilous environmental hazards for the protagonist to take adavantage of.
︀︀#fallenaces

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FixupX · Apr 7, 2026, 8:25 PM

[echo oyster]

tried taking a look at it, this fuckass level might be beyond saving honestly

what were your most recent additions to the map?

maybe just nukes those idk

playing this genuinely made my head hurt, i think it's just cursed by now

[main grail]

😭. The most recent additions were some layers I added

[echo oyster]

https://fixupx.com/BingassFA/status/2043783365791223928

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Profesionals have standards

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[main grail]

"I think his pal saw me. Yes, yes he did."

[brisk saffron]

"Dad I'm not a crazed gunman, I'm an Assassin."

[main grail]

"Ah come on, your breaking my heart. I ain't a crazed gunman pa, I'm an assassin"

[brisk saffron]

"Look, one's a job and the other's a mental sickness"

[echo oyster]

check out my EVIL fallen aces playtest!

[echo oyster]

uhh recordings apprecitated or sum

[echo reef]

Where do I put this?

[echo oyster]

AcesData/episodes

[echo reef]

It's fun, but very dream-like at the moment, really needs more decor.

and I easily goenn out of bounds here

Also maybe decrease the amount of money this goon gives?

[echo oyster]

well yeah, didn't bother with decor to make it easier to change things around

already workin on it

[echo oyster]

oh shit uhh yeah gonna add an insible wall there

[echo oyster]

yeah i gotta spread the loot out more

anyway thanks for playtesting or sum

feed me recordings if you can bothered

[echo reef]

Sadly, nah.

[echo reef]

I think you could raise the level of the building or somethin? Or just add fence.

[echo oyster]

cozy

[echo oyster]

hey uh what does this even do

on the point light

[echo oyster]

https://fixupx.com/BingassFA/status/2046616908359696700

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Putting the boys to sleep

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FixupX · Apr 21, 2026, 3:47 PM

[fiery tree]

Lights can be parented to movable geometry so they move along with it

Like a lightbulb on an elevator

[echo oyster]

Oh like the tram in chapter 5? Cool

[echo oyster]

https://fixupx.com/BingassFA/status/2047353303101497850

Bingass (@BingassFA)

FixupX · Apr 23, 2026, 4:34 PM

[frank flicker]

so uhhh

i assume you want to change some parameters of a 'thing'

[plucky ridge]

no the texture of the floor

[frank flicker]

go to 2d mode

select the sector who's floor you want to change

there should be a floor texture thingy

and choose the one you like, there's plenty of options!

[plucky ridge]

oh wait i found it out

i just needed to press tab

[frank flicker]

dang my editor skills are starting to get rusty

[echo oyster]

Uh what

[main grail]

Que

[flint onyx]

Can we please get the option to resize the AceEd window?

It worked fine on my laptop but for some reason on my Mini PC it doesn't fit the whole screen automatically

[tawdry parrot]

press f1 for fullscreen

[flint onyx]

Ohhh, right, thanks 🤦‍♂️

[main grail]

I have been just using it windowed this whole time

[teal axle]

anyone remembers the way to rotate sectors?

[echo oyster]

shift and rmb

[teal axle]

thank youus

totally forgot about that

[echo oyster]

awww

BOYS! TAKE CARE OF THIS SHMUCK!

[outer pond]

has anyone tried replacing mike arm sprites? idek if that's possible but just wanted to put that out there.

[main grail]

i think it is possible. wouldnt it just be a HUD modifications

[outer pond]

nah. talking about arms specifically. not hud.

[main grail]

I always assumed that the arms were a separate hud layer

[echo oyster]

https://fixupx.com/BingassFA/status/2058669790609187026

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FixupX · May 24, 2026, 10:01 PM

[main grail]

Its

Its....