# Tutorial: Your first level in 10 minutes

In this tutorial you make a small level from scratch: a grass floor, a few blocks to climb, a
coin trail and an exit – and you play it in the game. You need LlamaMod set up with your game
([Installing LlamaMod](02-installing.md)).

## Step 1: Create the level

1. Start LlamaMod and click **Level Editor**.
2. On the start page click **New level** (or **File → New level…**, **Ctrl+N**).
3. Type a **Level name**, for example *My first level*.
4. Leave the **Base level** at *Village – Chapter 1*: its objects (coins, checkpoints, the exit
   door) are what you will place.
5. Choose **Start with: Flat floor** and click **Create**.

![The New level dialog](img/ui_dialog_new.jpg)

The editor opens a 16×14 grass floor with a player start (the llama) and an exit door. The
TestLevel chapter shown in the dialog is where your level will appear in the game.

## Step 2: Look around

* Hold the **right mouse button** and move the mouse to look around; add **W A S D** to fly.
* Press **Home** to see the whole level, click the llama and press **F** to frame it.
* Press **Numpad 7** for the top view and **Numpad 5** to get back.

## Step 3: Add something to climb

1. Press **B** for the **Brush** tool. In the options bar choose **Block**.
2. Drag a 2×2 square on the floor next to the llama, move the mouse up until the status bar
   shows a height of about 0.5, and click. You have a step.
3. Choose **Platform** and draw a wider platform a bit further away, about 1.2 high.
4. Choose **Ramp** and draw a ramp leading up to the platform – it rises in the direction you
   drag.

![Drawing a ramp](img/geo_draw.jpg)

Click a brush with the **Select** tool (**Q**) to see its handles; drag a handle to resize it.
Every change can be undone with **Ctrl+Z**.

## Step 4: A coin trail

1. Open the **Objects** tab in the left dock – the ⊙ icon right next to *Outliner* (inactive tabs show only
   their icon) and click **Coin line** under **Quick setups** – or press **O** for the
   **Coin line / arc** tool.
2. Click once at the start of the trail and once at its end. Coins appear every *spacing* cells
   on the ground (also up the ramp).

## Step 5: Check the exit

The template already has an exit: a **LevelDoor** standing on an **exit floor** (collision
material 16). Press **C** to see collision colours – the exit floor has its own colour. If you
want the exit somewhere else, select the door and its floor brush and move them together with
the **Move** tool (**W**).

## Step 6: Play it

1. Press **F5**. The editor builds the level, installs it as a mod and starts the game directly
   in it.
2. Walk the llama up the ramp, collect the coins and step on the exit.
3. Press **Escape** to come straight back to the editor.

Want to test only the platform jump? Point the middle of the view at the platform and press
**Shift+F5** – the llama starts right there.

## Step 7: Save

Press **Ctrl+S**. The project is saved in LlamaMod's `levels` folder and shows up as a mod in
LlamaMod's **Levels** category. Send the `.llamalevel` file to a friend to let them play it –
see [Sharing levels](17-sharing.md).

## What next?

* [Make a parkour](tutorial-parkour.md) – platforms, death floors, checkpoints.
* [Building geometry](06-geometry.md) – all primitives, rotating, arrays and alignment.
* [Objects](09-objects.md) – enemies, checkpoints, secrets and parameters.
* [Environment](12-environment.md) – fog, music and light.