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Hotline Miami 2 Level Editor Tutorial

By robracer97 and 1 collaborators

Hello everyone! The Hotline Miami level editor has been out for a long while now, yet no one ever made any video tutorials explaining how it works. It still can be very confusing to new players, and there's tons of hidden tricks and work-arounds that even experienced player may not know about. These guides aim to cover every aspect of the editor, from level design to mods to entire custom campaigns!

I'm your host, Rob Salmon, creator of A real Human Bean, 9 Lives, Berlin Blitz and more! Joining me is my co-host Matt, aka mvfolevh; creator of Requiem and a number of awesome Hotline Miami 1 remakes. Our combined knowledge of the editor should be enough to teach you every facet of the system!

As we create more episodes, I will continue adding onto this guide, so stay tuned for much more content
If you have any questions, or suggestions on what to cover/ change, let us know!

Thanks for watching!

robracer97:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/profiles/76561198098954058/

mvfolevh: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/profiles/76561197998938432/

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Category: Gameplay Basics, Maps or Levels, Modding or Configuration, Walkthroughs, Workshop

Languages: English

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27 Feb, 2018 @ 12:13am

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Guide Index

Overview

The Basics

Level Design

Cutscenes

Campaigns, Covers, and Publishing

Notepad ++ editing

Sprite Modding

Music Modding

Advanced Mechanics

Comments

The Basics

This episode we cover the basic essentials of the editor, so the you can get a better grasp of where to begin. But very soon we will go into the more advanced topics!

Level Design

This episode we cover how to make your bad levels suck less, ramble about how much dodgers and ducking enemies are terrible, and tasteful floor designs. Hopefully the rest of the episodes will be a lot more focused, since this one gets a bit rambly. My excuse is that level design is kind of an abstract topic, and much harder to teach than say, cutscenes. But hopefully it was of help anyways!

Cutscenes

This episode we cover how to make cutscenes so cinematic Stanley Kubrick would shed a tear. There's a trillion aspects to the cutscene editor, but we just tried to show you the basics of Frames, Actions, and triggers so you can get creative on your own.

Also, never add cutscenes at spawn in a combat level. Ever.

Campaigns, Covers, and Publishing

This episode we cover how to make campaigns out of your single levels, duplicate levels for cutscenes, add custom covers and thumbnails, and publish your levels! Wow that's a lot man! No wonder it's 40 mins long....

Notepad ++ editing

This episode we we're joined by Yossarian the Assyrian as we explain to you the magic and mechanics of Notepad++, an essential tool for level editing! Want to add cool disco ball? An explosive meth lab? Or just fix your stupid grammar mistake in a 52 page dialogue segment? Then this is the episode for you!

Sprite Modding

This episode we finally cover mods! Want new faces, enemies, guns, or whatever? This is how you do it!

This episode Legomack comes on to teach us how to make sprite like a real life video game maker dude.

Music Modding

This episode we teach y'all how to add sweet new tunes to Hotline Miami 2, because if I hear Sexualizer one more time I will take a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hostage.

Advanced Mechanics

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АЛЛАХ БАБАХ 22 Jun, 2024 @ 6:20am

people help me how to make more than seven floors on a level?

Unfortunate 6 May, 2023 @ 12:12am

Thank you so much! I'll try to figure out how to add the soldier cam object. Thanks again!

robracer97 [author] 6 May, 2023 @ 12:09am

Set the level borders and then add the soldier cam object with notepad++

Unfortunate 5 May, 2023 @ 10:34pm

Hey! I couldn't find any answer to this nor know what it is called. How do I make an border to a level where the player can't zoom with shift.I saw it in plenty of levels where it was to simply hide to get some immersion? I couldn't see any guide or speak about it. I really need to know how so I can finish my campaign

hotline-miami-fan123 16 Dec, 2022 @ 1:11pm

Nah forget my comment it worked

robracer97 [author] 16 Dec, 2022 @ 10:14am

You are welcome!

You'll have to reskin an NPC to be a phone and then you can make them be a clickable trigger

Bugbait 16 Dec, 2022 @ 8:28am

Two things to say:
Let me start by thanking you! You rose to the challenge and helped so many people. Your contributions have made the community so much better!
Now, I have a question for you. I wanted to know if there is a way to trigger dialogue upon activating an item (like the cellphone).
Thank you so much :)

hotline-miami-fan123 9 Dec, 2022 @ 8:07pm

the video didnt worked

hotline-miami-fan123 9 Dec, 2022 @ 7:41am

i want to make that my cutcene ends on a point instead of going to the car

Barnaky 1 Dec, 2022 @ 11:49am

Heya Rob or Matt
Your video on level design appears to be down? Not sure if either of you knows but I hope it gets back up soon.
I have a cool friend that's inspired to make levels and I showed them this guide just to find the video is not up.

These videos helped me get good at making levels. Thank you guys for making these, you guys awesome, awesome possum.

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