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[[File:MonengSpace.jpg|thumb|300px|right|A screen shot of [[魔脓空间站|''Moneng Space'']], the most representative custom level]]
==Mapping in Ballance==
Generally speaking, mapping in Ballance, is much harder than in almost any other games, which makes some mapping skills and mechanisms still unclear till now, even more than a decade after the release of Ballance.
The basic software for mapping is [[Virtools]], which can be used to modify .nmo files. However, since Virtools doesn't support [[wikipedia:3D modeling|3D modeling]]<ref name="3dmodel">Virtools can be used to edit existing 3D objects, but cannot create 3d objects.</ref>, [[wikipedia:Autodesk_3ds_Max|3ds Max]] is commonly used for assistance. ==Tutorials==
Still waiting to be fully translated.
==Ballance Map Pack==
===History===
In 2011 the first pack containing all custom levels till that time was released. In 2013, since too much maps had been available, the new version removed “bad works” and ordered the maps by difficulty.<ref name="sys">Due to some reasons, currently posts before 2017 are hidden in Chinese forums.</ref>
===Download===
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/download/3ucbnz2chl48lpz Download Ballance Map Pack 7.4 (June 2018)]
==History==
===Default levels===
The first 12 levels were released with the game itself, in April 2004. Another downloadable level, namely 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 [[wikipedia:3D modeling|3D modeling]]<ref name="3dmodel" />, what apart from it is used remains unclear.
===Custom levels===
====In Chinese forums====
Most softwares were hacked to be downloaded and used for free in China in 2000s; , thus giving people 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).<ref name="sys" />
====In other forums====
Due to the lack of 3D modeling softwares and unified forums, there seems to be no new custom levels before the release of ''First CLU's Level'' in May 2019; in 2012, some Chinese custom levels were brought to some forums; in 2018, mapping tutorials were translated and brought to the Discord Ballance server.
==Notes and references==
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