--Introduction
I seem to notice that most people have problems with WoG Editor. It might be the fact that there isn't a decent tutorial around here! The one on source forge wiki doesn't explain it well enough. Even I had to learn how to use it by experimenting with it! I hope this guide will shine a little light on the subject.

--Getting Started
Start by opening WoG Editor. If you don't have it, then you can download it under "Utilities" on this website. Once opened, you should see an instance of command prompt. Leave it open. After a few seconds, the main window will open up. You must keep both open though. Otherwise, the main window will close. Now that the program is running, we can begin making our level!

--Making a level
Start your first level by clicking the third button from the left on the top of the interface. It should have the picture of a square and a star on it. Once clicked, it should prompt you to name your level. Call it "GooNation" and press OK. You should now see a mini window inside of WoG Editor. You can maximize this by clicking the square on the top-right corner of the mini window. If you still can't see all of it, scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in and out until you find a comfortable resolution. You should now be looking at a rectangle with a missing side and an orange line in the middle. This will be the basis for our level. The lines on the sides represent the edges of the level. The orange line represents gravity. The top line represents the floor of the level. By default, the sides will detach a structure when touched. This can be changed. If you look to your right, you will see a sidebar. The tabs in the middle should say, "Scene, Level, & Resource." Click on "Scene". You should now see five objects that read, "scene, linearforcefield, line right, line left, & line ground." Click on "line right". You should now see the properties panel come to life. This is located underneath the tabs for scene, level, and resource. The lowest line in the properties panel should say "tag detaching". Double click on the work "detaching". It should now be editable. Backspace the work until nothing is on the line and press enter. It should now say just "tag" with nothing next to it. Now go back to the Scene tab and do the exact same thing for the "line left". Congratulations, you have finished the basis for your level!

--Adding sounds and images
What kind of a level doesn't have music? We will now add some. To start, go to the "Resource" tab. To add a soundtrack to the level, we have to save it as a resource. For this level, we'll just use a track from World of Goo. Right-click on the word "Resources" at the top of the pane. It should also have an arrow next to it. When right-clicked, it should show a very long context menu. Click on "Add child Sound". A new sound should appear on the pane! It will have a big red "X" next to it but no worries! You just have to fill in some information before it can be playable. If you click on the new sound, it should appear in the properties as editable. Double click on the space next to the word "path". You should now be able to type some text in. In the space provided, type "res/music/temp_CarnivalLoop" and press enter. Now we should also give it a decent name. Right above the "path" function in the properties pane, you should see "id sound1". Double click on "sound1" and change the text to "bg" and press enter. We now have our background music available to us! We'll go into adding it to the level in a little while. Right now, we have to change that dull default background for the level! To do this, we will simply need an image to use. Right-click on the word "Resources" again and click on "Add child Image". Click on it when it appears and go to the properties pane to edit some values! Change the id from "image1" to "bg". Now type in the path as "res/levels/BeautySchool/bg". You now have the basic resources needed for the level! Let's add more. Add another child image and change the id to "platform". Type the path in as "res/levels/BeautySchool/main_03". Congratulations! We have enough resources for the level! Now to start creating it.

--Creating the Scenery
Go to the "Scene" tab and right-click on "scene" at the top of the pane. Click on "Add child SceneLayer" when it appears in the context menu. This will be the background. On the properties for your new scenelayer, type in the id as "bg". Then, for the value on "image", write "bg" also. It should now have appeared in the center of the level view. It obviously doesn't fill the level so on the properties pane, write on the value of "scale" as "2,2". It should now have doubled in size. Change the value of "center" in the properties from "0,0" to "0,500". This is just to center the background in the level. We also have to make sure that it's behind everything else so change the value of depth from "0" to "-60". You now have your background! Now we can add some platforms for gooballs to walk (move, squirm, IDK) on. Add another SceneLayer to the scene. Make the id "platform1" and the image "platform". It should now appear in the bottom of the level. Change the value of "center" from "0,0" to "400,250". It should have moved to the right side of the level. Let's add one more platform just to make the level interesting! Add another Scenelayer with the value of "id" set to "platform2". Change the value of "image" to "platform" and change the "center" value from "0,0" to "0,250". There should now be two platforms side by side. Congratulations! You have created the scenery for your level! Now it's time to make some solid objects.

--Making things solid
In WoG Editor, you have to make something solid with shapes and lines rather than just placing the item and putting gooballs on it. To do this, we can simply add items to the Scene tab. Right-click on "scene" and click on "Add child rectangle" when the context menu appears. You can leave the id as "geometry1". It won't matter. Change the value of "rotation" so that it's "6.25". Change the value of "center" from "0,0" to "2,470". Now change the value of "size" from "100,100" to "245,30". There should now be a blue rectangle on top of one of your platforms. Change the value of "material" so that it reads "rock". This is so that it is a solid object to the gooballs. Now that you know how to create solid platforms, create the following as instructed:

geometry2 -- center = "115,184" -- rotation = "0" -- size = "20,600" -- material = "rock"
geometry3 -- center = "42,347" -- rotation = "33" -- size = "10,250" -- material = "rock"
geometry4 -- center = "59,73" -- rotation = "-24" -- size = "10,300" -- material = "rock"
geometry5 -- center = "400,470" -- rotation = "6.25" -- size = "245,30" -- material = "rock"
geometry6 -- center = "515,184" -- rotation = "0" -- size = "20,600" -- material = "rock"
geometry7 -- center = "442,347" -- rotation = "33" -- size = "10,250" -- material = "rock"
geometry8 -- center = "459,73" -- rotation = "-24" -- size = "10,300" -- material = "rock"

--Adding Gooballs and Strands
Now that we are done with the scenery, we can move onto adding gooballs. Go to the "level" tab in the pane. You should see two pink items and two blue items. Right-click on the highest object named "level" and, on the context menu that appears, click "Add child BallInstance". It should appear as "goo1". We will not need to change the name of it, so leave the id as is. Hmm...Let's make this a level with Albino gooballs. To do this, change the value of "type" in the "goo1" properties pane to "common_albino". For the value of "pos", replace "0,0" with "-30,500". The gooball should now be on top of the platform. It's okay if it's floating a little bit. The fact that the level has gravity allows the gooball to fall to the ground! Create more gooballs using the same method through the following information:

goo2 -- type = "common_albino" -- pos = "70,510"
goo3 -- type = "common_albino" -- pos = "10,580"

1st Strand -- gb1 = "goo1" -- gb2 = "goo2"
2nd Strand -- gb1 = "goo2" -- gb2 = "goo3"
3rd Strand -- gb1 = "goo3" -- gb2 = "goo1"

--Adding the pipe/exit
Now onto the pipe. Right-click on "level" and click on "Add child Pipe". The pipe object should appear. Let's make sure it's behind other objects. Change the value of "depth" from "0" to "-20". Also, change the value of "type" to "BLACK". Now go back to the higher pane and right-click on "pipe pipe1" this time. Click "Add child Vertex". You should now have an indent within pipe1 that says "Vertex". Change the value of "pos" to "250,-200"Create 3 more vertexes this way by using the following values:

2nd Vertex -- pos = "250,650"
3rd Vertex -- pos = "400,650"
4th Vertex -- pos = "400,600"

--Conclusion
I hope you learned from this tutorial. If you have any questions, please post them here. After you finish, you can test the level by clicking the play button on the top. This didn't take me long. Only about say a few hours...not that long

If you have received brain trauma from reading this very long tutorial, then please watch this entertaining Christmas video.