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Looks like you're doing well enough that you might not need that picture guide. So this is entirely expected, because again we're dealing with an artificial "interior" inside of a sector, just like your train carriages. Once again, the solution to your use case is to simulate a top using s...

This will take quite a while for me to create, take pictures and write about. I will try get to it a bit later.

Difficult to promise for sure when I've got 45 projects running concurrently, but I'll get there.

There are a few ways in which to achieve this. In this case I'd strongly recommend looking at Phantom Express' example, since it is quite tidy but here's the basic flow of it: Build a sector that you want to serve as the parent or container for the cabinet that opens. Within that sector, build the c...

For a change you have asked for something with a simple solution. You can make any monster or gib object drop items. All you need to do is modify the properties of the object via the usual ALT + F6 method and look for the "Drop item" parameter at the bottom right of the menu. This is expec...

A traditional suitcase on the floor which has its lid flip open in an arc is impossible to do in Build, since you'd have a true 3D sector performing a rotation on its own axis which you can observe from all sides. The closest you'd find to that structurally already exists in Blood - the Beast Vision...

A light switch and destroying a light source have quite similar functionality. Let's start with destroying a source of light. As you may be familiar with by now, this will of course be using the same trigger system as we've used before. You will set up a sprite which will send the command and a sect...

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I am between a few things currently, during which my creative side switches off, so I can't suggest anything on that side right this moment. I can however help with the piano. How you'd go about is that you would create two invisible sprites to make the effect. One sprite would be a wall sprite plac...

This is looking decent, but you will never be able to properly overcome the issue of sprites displaying through others in that way. Blood adores rendering sprites in front of others when you don't want them to. This is a limitation you will either need to accept or try work around. A solution to con...

As a random aside, Shadow Warrior uses this effect in ways that Blood doesn't tolerate. Sadly, Shadow Warrior used a newer version of Build which was much more powerful and flexible. With Blood we got stuck with a slightly broken version of sector stacking, which is a pity.

Not sure if I somehow missed your E6M1 question or if you edited it just as I posted or something. No matter. The technique in E6M1 that you've observed is a sector stack or sector link effect. It is a powerful tool which can be used to serve as a portal of sorts between two sectors. The technique i...

To make sure we're on the same page, it's very important to mark sprites as 1-sided when you don't want to be able to view them "from behind". To do this, mouseover the sprite and press '1'. The means that wall and floor sprites will only be visible from one side and not both. This is an i...

I can't speak to how accurate XMapedit's representation of the game is and how that might match up, but you can generally trust the 3D view's sprite presentation to match up with the game. Sprites generally have a level of 'tolerance' for being placed above sectors without having those sectors (and ...