Angry Birds Custom Levels
 

First off. BIG thanks to Rovio for allowing us to create our own levels ...

This thread came out of this one http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...y+bird&page=17

so see there for the history. The other thread we are keeping for the editor development and creating this one for custom level discussions

We cant do anything official with the Custom levels yet as there is no easy and impact free method for doing this


The main problem is that the only current way to play the custom levels is to copy over an existing level. Or as we are currently doing, is stealing the Pack2 Slots. However the impact is that any highscore you get on a level will be saved against the real pack 2 when you get it. And in the same way any level you unlock by playing the custom pack2 levels will result in an unlocked real pack 2 level when you come to buy the real expansion. (start subliminal message) AND YOU ALL WILL (end subliminal message)

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EDIT:
These are outdated instructions!
Please use these simpler instructions for a bigger levelpack:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=148


So I will post the How to here again...

Here is the How-To for installing custom levelpacks for Angry Birds.
Please only do this, if you don't have the official levelpacks installed, because these custom ones will overwrite your bought LevelPacks! For Rovio (the developber of Angry Birds) it is okay if you install custom levelpacks.
If you haven't seen the video yet, here it is again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcSLjVvIMbU

First you have to download this file. If you use Windows, then use WinRAR to unpack the file, no need to untar it after. If you've downloaded the file directly to your N900 you can also unpack it there.
Type in the following:
You will get a mypack folder. Copy this folder to the internal memory of the N900 if you unpacked in windows. Then open X-Terminal (you will need rootsh, as every time) on the N900 an type in the following:
That was all! Easy, isn't it? Now you can start Angry Birds and play the new levels.
Thanks to Rovio for this game, and thanks to cgarvie for this levelpack, and all his effort!

Have fun!

edit: updated levelpack-file

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EDIT there are now 15 levels. and your best going here
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...863#post547863

for them. Its much simpler







Ok here are the 10 custom levels so far


up and over
3 little pigs
through the wall
mind the steps
drop
pyramid
oh piggy where art thou
bounce left right
roll over miss piggy
birdhouse of my soul

See instructions in post above ... Thanks to stobbsc for the levels he contributed.

If more levels appear i will ll or some one else can packge them up as a zipped tar file.

If you are happy for this to happen please say so when you post a level.

If any one needs help just shout. And what id love to see is some feed back on what levels you liked or didnt like.


EDIT SEE TOP OF POST

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My two favourite levels from the pack are:

roll over miss piggy: i enjoyed this the most, although it's not very clear where the rolling rock suddenly comes from...
oh piggy where art thou: sneaky level! ;)

Overall i think the single bird levels were the least exciting; since there's only one way to complete the level (and in most levels it's pretty obvious how to)

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The rolling rock Comes from the Sky. Basically i gave the Rock a y co-ord that was realy big so it takes 30 seconds for it to fall far enough to suddenly appear on screen.

THe single bird levels were more or less me getting on my feet. working out what was what. Plus there were no single bird levels. so i thought it might add a slightly different element.

I do hope to do a few more. but im also trying to install mythtv on a new machine , and thats gonna eat into my time :-)

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in the video above its showing the level 3 also unlocked...how to get it??
i have level 2 frm ur instructions above.!
bt how to have level 3?

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what do you mean on official pack should be installed? which one is that?

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If you are talking about pack 3 (ie the big number 1 2 and 3 above each of the 21 levels in the pack) Then some people were lucky enought to buy the expansion pack before it was pulled from the OVI store.

The levels ive tarred up. Is a FAKE expansion pack2 to keep people ammused till Ovi gets fixed and people can buy the real pack 2 and 3 for only £3.

So most people dont have anything other than Pack1, more and more people from the download figures are trying out my fake pack2. BUT as i said before this will set highscores and unlock the real pack 2 levels when people manage to buy this

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Thanks for this zehjotkah.

However, I am a noob, and this is my first time trying to use xterminal on the n900, so please bear with me. I downloaded rootsh and installed it, and was able to get the root command to work, but when i try to unzip the file (i downloaded the file on my n900) using the next command line in your guide, it says "tar: can't open 'z': no such file or directory".

What am i missing here?

Thanks.:)

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try with
in the next step you also have to copy the files from the unpacked folder... not /mypack

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Thanks for the prompt response. I got another error saying cant open vz. After searching online, it seems like the suffix -z is for gzip. Is that automatically installed in xterminal, or do I have to download that.

I apologize if this seems so elementary to you. Like i mentioned, this is my first time doing this, and I love Angry Birds!!!:D

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thats ok we all have to start somewhere. Im just a linux fumbler myself


tar xzf /home/user/MyDocs/cag_level_pack.tar.gz

i didnt think the order would matter but it didnt work for me with xfz but is ok with xfz


also you did just save the file direct to your phone. you havent done anything to it like unziped it on a PC. cause if youve unzipped it you could only need to untar it

tar xf /home/user/MyDocs/cag_level_pack.tar

i think

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Thanks. I finally got the tar to work, and i made the directory, but it seems like the 'mypack' folder was never created when i used tar.

What else am I missing? Thanks a lot!

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I am in no way a linux guy, but after experimenting with the order of the switch parameters, I finally got it to extract the files. Try putting the x z v f in this order:

Copy the files in /mypack from the root

Remove the directory after it's been copied.

learning as I go!

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Thanks bro! Finally got it. You just made my night!!! (or day, whatever the time is!!!)

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Wow, its amazing what a better named thread can do. We were having about 20 views per level, before i created this thread, and now were nearly at 200views for the latest pack. So big thanks for to teh Admin who sugested i start a new thread.

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Its brilliant I agree :) so are the Levels :)

I just have one issue in Level 7 I only see one pig and I kill it but then I can not finish the Level :(
It shows me Level not finished.
What do I wrong?

BR

Wolfpac

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:-)
yeah that is a puzzle isnt it :-)
and the piggy thats there isway to easy to kill to be the whole level.

plus if you look at the level name (always a good idea with my levels)

you will see its Called "Oh Piggy Where art thou"

dont want to spoil it just yet. But if you fail to complete it after some more attempts and a little thought.

Give me a shout.

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Dam it :)
Yes yes you are right im not this brilliant lol (playing in the office lol) just trying going through the Levels.

But just have to tell brilliant work keep on going :)

BR

Wolfpac

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hay guys, im having problems installing these extra levels

R /home/opt/rovio/angrybirds/data/levels/pack2

with this i get /bin/sh: R: not found

any ideas cheers :)

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that line you entered is the 2nd half of the line above in the instructions. just enter it as 1 commad

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hehe, i tried that at first all one line, had problems with that! my mistake was a space between - and r

all working now :-)

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oh and thank you for your effort, creating the levels etc :D

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I have the level pack installed. Any way I can install custom levels while keeping the original level pack (Rovios level pack 1)

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Sounds awesome! Can we have some screesnhots up in here?

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there is a video in the second post.

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the instruction should NOT touch pack 1 just give you a pack2
if you have real pack2 you have to swap in and out. at the moment you cant have both.

rovio hope to develop a solution in the paid upgrade though.

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Anyone have problems with level 5? Mine just shows a brief moment a text loading at screen and then closes the game. Any ideas?

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id down load the pack again and copy the file again.
if youve touched the file it migth do that.
designing the levels has been a bit tricky at times as there no debug, and if i got something wrong in file, missing comma, non consistant data it would just kill the game

but my level 5is ok actually file Level88.lua
so cd in pack2 dir and type

md5sum Level88.lua

if you dont get abfb327f6......57fd (there more in middle but tricky to type it all :-}) then you definitly done have the same file. If you do have the same number then im stummped

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Ist possible to ssh the files to the N900??

And thanks alooooot for the extra levels

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oh yeah if you know whats your doing.
As well as the phone being so cool, that i can use vi to edit the level while sitting on the bus and test it instantly.

ive been using komodo as an editor on my lap top to edit the files (using ssh) direct on the phone.

so if you untar and unzip the files on a different machine you can ssh them across. Assuming you have the ssh server installed on the phone.

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Since the Pack has 300 views. Is there really that many people on this site , and then interested in the pack. or has one of you looked at it 257 times?

and this level has only 9 views and is NOT in the pack do to its Insane high Score. Ive attached it again here.
copy it over file Level38.lua in pack2 directory to place it in Position 11. HOW EVER AS I HAVE SAID AND WILL KEEP SAYING THIS WILL TRASH THE HIGH SCORE FOR WHEN YOU GET THE REAL PACK 2

when a new pack 2 is released with more levels you will need to move this somewhere else. but by then you will have completed it.



OK here it is. Meteor Shower. This one has a high score of about 614100 well thats my SCORE :-)


I have had to gzip this one as the files too big.

due to this massive score . I dont plan to put this one in the tar, unless enough people specificly say it should be included.


The plan originally was that the longer you took the higher the score but the harder it was to complete.

but i discovered that the level continues even after all pigs are dead untill all objects stop moving.

so it wasnt quite what i wanted. but its not to bad in the end


Those of you looking at creating levels, might want to look at code as ive used loops and created groups so. if i move the x,y of one of the bird houses the whole structre moves. including the pig inside.

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There's a simple explanation: First pack is easy to install/copy/"whatever you want to call it", while this one looks a bit tricky. It isn't, i know.. but the first impression is that it is.

I sugest you (or anyone else) make a simple "how to" on this particular level, just like:

This is, IMO, the best way for me to understand it, as a noob.. ;)

I WANT IT! :D


Messing with x,y moves houses/etc, but what if we want to add birds/pigs/etc? Are you interested on making an "how to" on it? (for newbies) ;)

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There's another thread about editing levels. This is about custom, user-made levels and how to install them.

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Ok Cgarvie. I am totally stumped on 2-7. I have no idea how to end this level. A little help, please :D

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PM sent so not to spoil it for anyon else

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I don't know if anyone else has already found it, but I've just discovered the way for not having the pack 2 completed (the original one, when we'll buy it) and for resetting the high score.

Actually you can even boost your highscore as high as you want, look at my high score in Level 1!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2697/...139f823308.jpg

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THANKS!!! Was so sad when the new level were not available from Ovi Store.:D

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yeah just worked this part out yesterday but been installing a new mythtv set up, so not had time to work out best way to passinfo on.

yeah its ok to edit file, but we want to make it simpler for newbs.
Id love to know if my pack really has had 500 unique views. I never expected so many.

not that ive had much feed back.

so come on peeps good or bad let me know what you like or dislike.

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I just installed your level pack follow the instruction on NokiaExperts :D. So good, thank you very much cgarvie. I have a question, since this level pack in active using the button reserve for world 2, what will happen if the level pack available again? is it gonna stop me from playing your level and Rovio world 2 ???????? I am a noob about maemo :D soooooo.......