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Mapping, or called making new custom levels, is a type of the action of modifying levels. However, what makes custom maps (custom levels) entirely different from ordinary modified levels is, custom maps do not, or almost do not, can contain any no parts derived from default levels.
[[File:MonengSpace.jpg|thumb|300px|right|A screen shot of [[魔脓空间站|''Moneng Space''SkyScraper]], the most representative custom level]]
== Mapping in Ballance ==
All custom levels are free to use and modify. The newest version of map pack is 7.5 (June 2019), containing 13 default / 45-degree rotated / semi-blind levels, 30 reversed levels, 43 professional speedrunning levels, 184 custom levels.<ref>[https://tieba.baidu.com/p/6154950041 【地图包】【2019.6】 地图包7.5发布_百度贴吧]</ref>
* (Mediafire) [https://www.mediafire.com/folder/eifg7yri7jrwt9g,68dr8ew27in3qsl '''Download Ballance Map Pack 7.5 (June 2019)''']
* (Mediafire) [https://www.mediafire.com/download/3ucbnz2chl48lpz Download Ballance Map Pack 7.4 (June 2018)]
=== Default levels ===
The first 12 levels were released with the game itself, in April 2004. Another downloadable level, namely named level 13 (“Speed”/“速度”), was released in September that year.<ref>''(Archived 20 Oct 2007)'' [http://web.archive.org/web/20071020052454/http://www.ballance.org/news.htm Ballance Developer Homepage]</ref> Nowadays most Ballance setup packs already contain this level.
Virtools 2.1 is credited to be the software used to make this levels; however, since it is clear that Virtools can't do 3D modeling<ref name="3dmodel" />, what apart from it is used remains unclearunknown.
=== Custom levels ===
Most softwares were hacked to be downloaded and used for free in China in 2000s, thus providing access to 3D modeling softwares and the most important software for Ballance mapping, Virtools.
The date of the first available edited level is unknown, probably dating back to 2006; The first level considered to be a “new” level was ''Reversed level 1'' (December 2008); the first custom level was ''Level 14'' (June 2009); [[wikipedia:Autodesk_3ds_Max|3ds Max]] was also chosen as the software to create 3D models at that time. In April 2010, the first level with Ballance textures, ''Beautiful Textures'' was released. In June 2010, a Ballance-floor-making tool,[[BMMaker]], was released.<ref name="sys" />
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