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‫Hello and welcome.

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‫In this lecture, we're going to be making a little bit of a platformer by having a look at how we can

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‫add new objects in to our level, how we can position them, rotate them, scale them and all that good

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‫stuff.

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‫Let's dive in and find out.

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‫So when we were flying around in our level last time you may have accidentally left, clicked on an

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‫object and it got selected.

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‫You can see this little highlight around the object in the scene shows that it's been selected.

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‫So the scene is made up of different objects called actors.

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‫Everything in this level is called an act.

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‫Anything that I can select separately is an actor, and you can see that when I select things in the

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‫viewport, they're also being selected in the outlier.

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‫The outlier is a textual representation of the actors in our level, whereas the viewport is the visual

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‫representation of those actors.

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‫And what I'm most interested in right now is figuring out how I can get new actors into my level.

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‫If you go to the toolbar, the only other bit of green on the toolbar for me is this quickly add to

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‫project.

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‫It's a cube with a little plus icon and if you click on that, you get a little dropdown of the different

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‫kinds of actors that we can place in our level.

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‫And if you just go to the shapes and go to Cube, then you can drag and bring into the level and you

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‫can see that little preview of where it's going to go.

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‫You can bring in a cube for us to play around with.

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‫Now you'll notice that every object that we select has got this little gizmo, which is three arrows

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‫pointing in the three cardinal directions.

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‫And you can see as I hover over them, they get selected.

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‫This allows us to move the object around in space.

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‫So if I select one of the arrows, it moves in the direction of that particular arrow.

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‫And also you can see that there is a little square between each set of each pair of arrows.

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‫And if I select the square, it selects both arrows at the same time and allows me to move within this

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‫plane of movement instead.

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‫Now we can also do other things to the objects in our scenes.

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‫We can rotate them, we can scale them.

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‫If you go to the toolbar that's just inside the viewport, there's a little mini toolbar and you can

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‫see that we've got a bunch of tools.

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‫One of these is selected is if you hover over, it says select and translate objects.

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‫That's what's currently selected and that's why we have got the gizmo that we're seeing that allows

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‫us to select and translate the objects.

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‫Next to it is the select and rotate objects.

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‫You can see I select that I get a different gizmo that allows me to rotate the cube instead in the different

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‫dimensions.

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‫And next to that there is the scale object tool which allows me to change the size of the objects.

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‫Also worth noting that just like with our scale tool, you can also scale on two dimensions simultaneously.

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‫If you select between the two arrows and there are keyboard shortcuts to move between these modes,

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‫w will get you to select and translate.

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‫E is going to get you select and rotate and R is going to get you the select and scale now right next

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‫to each other on the keyboard, which is why they are chosen that way.

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‫So let's challenge you to make your own little platformer.

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‫You're going to do this by placing some more cubes in to your level.

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‫You're going to use that quickly add button and then shapes and then cube to bring it into your level,

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‫then scale it and position it wherever you want it, and try and see if you can get your third person

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‫character to escape out of the box that they're currently in by placing platforms strategically.

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‫By the way, a little tip as well is that if you use control C in control V, you can duplicate an object

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‫in your scene as well so that you don't have to recreate it from scratch and rescale it if you don't

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‫want to.

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‫So pause video and have a go.

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‫Okay.

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‫Welcome back.

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‫So I'm going to have a go at repositioning this platform.

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‫So if we go to the middle area, we should be able to jump onto it.

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‫So that's going to be my platform one.

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‫And I can do control C, control V, which has given me a second instance that I can then move a little

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‫bit higher to try and jump onto as my next stepping stone.

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‫And the little handy tip is that if you hold down alt while selecting and dragging something, it actually

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‫automatically creates a duplicated object for you.

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‫It's such a common thing to want to do that there is a very, very quick shortcut to do it.

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‫So let's go ahead and play, see if I can use this ladder to escape my level.

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‫I'm just going to run over here.

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‫I'm going to jump on to the platforms and sure enough, I can get out and I'm going to fall all the

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‫way to my doom.

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‫So hit escape.

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‫And you can see I'm a little bit out of my level now.

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‫If I wanted to go back into the level, if I double click anything in the liner, it's going to zoom

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‫my viewport directly to look at that object, which is always very handy.

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‫So I've obviously created a really, really basic third person platformer here, but you can go wild

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‫and add in different objects, have fun, share it with your friends and see if they can beat it to

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‫great stuff.

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‫I'll see you in the next lecture.