Where Each Setting Lives

This page is a lookup table, not a manual. KovaaK's documents its own editor field by field, and stays current in a way a third-party page cannot.¹

The official pages lack the other direction. You know what the scenario should demand. You need to know where that lives.

• Start from the demand, not the menu. Decide what should be hard, then look it up.
• Settings are spread across profiles. One scenario, several files.¹
• Two traps cost the most time. The Challenge tab, and the Session Manager.
• Read the official pages for fields. This page does not repeat them.

From demand to location¶

The two traps¶

Naming a profile once is not enough. Adding a character or bot profile on the Main tab does not change what challenge mode uses. Set it on the Challenge tab as well.²³

This is the single most common way an edit appears to do nothing. If your change works in free play and not in a challenge run, this is why.

The Session Manager is a sandbox. It changes the player character, the bots, teams, invincibility, the map, the map scale and the time scale, and none of it is saved.⁴

That makes it the right place to try a value and the wrong place to set one.

What the official pages cover better¶

Field-level detail belongs where it is maintained. Go there for it:

• Intro to Scenario Creation: how profiles link, and how to open the editor.
• Character Profiles: the nine tabs, the two bounding boxes, the spawn options.
• Weapon Profiles: fifteen tabs, from ammo to per-shot recoil.
• KovaaK's Map Creator: brushes, game objects and the editor's own key binds.

Common mistakes¶

• Hunting for a size slider. Size is a bounding box on the Boxes tab.⁵
• Editing the bot's character profile to change how it moves. Motion is a dodge profile.⁶⁷
• Building a waypoint path and leaving Waypoint Logic on Ignore, so nothing follows it.⁸
• Treating this page as current. When it disagrees with the official wiki, the official wiki is right.

In practice¶

Look up one setting, change it, play it. A lookup that does not end in a run you played is just reading.

Do this next. Name the one thing you want your scenario to demand, find its row above, and open that tab.

Related¶

• Making Your Own Scenario: the build this map is the lookup table for.
• Tuning Difficulty: which of these settings are worth changing and how far.
• Designing Target Motion
• Ability Profile
• Aim Profile
• Character Profile
• Dodge Profile
• Scenario Editor
• Sharing to the Workshop
• Weapon Profile

Resources¶

• KovaaK's: the trainer, and its own documentation.

References¶