posted 12-11-2000 07:23 PM               

I would know: I work as a programmer and I know how fast clued-in users can find work-around bugs so as to skirt around crashes. We had to hire full-time testers since we could not be counted on to be like clueless users; we would automatically do what was safe.

I think your editor is fine (if a bit clunky, heh!) but I'll learn to love it, since it is so powerfull.

If I get the gist of what was said about WAD file, to make one with any degree of liberty involves Gigabytes of objects, each in their PRK file (I can read a WAS file (BTW, are those Z drive mapped to Z or are they *really* Z drives)) which are assembled by some parsing engine reading the WAS list-file for that level.

A lot of work.

However, you seemed to have painted yourself in the corner as the ONLY purveyor of WAD files.

I think the lamers are screaming because they have no ideas of the huge amount of work even ONE mesh implies.
Well, you'd be surprised as to how loud they will scream if they had to make their own wad files.

Which brings me to some proposition I would make, to liberate you.

How about you zip all those objects and sell them on CDs (in slices of 700Megs) or on the net (in slice of 50 Megs or so) along with a *terse*, *geeky* set of instructions and the DOS exe (command-line driven only (of course)) needed to pack all the selected one in WADs of their own.

I would not be surprised to se a SAM's Make your own WAD in 21 days book soon. As an added benefit, think of all the time you would now have on your hands to make something really special...

Anyway, I think I have tipped my hands (both of them) enough.

posted 12-11-2000 10:52 PM               

All the "lamers" on here want is some more objects to use in the game, that is not too much to ask.

posted 12-13-2000 05:05 PM              

I love using the editor, and you are right, it is powerful. It is very user friendly compared with most editors and allows those who are dedicated enough, to create amazing environments and game play. I'm shocked at the number of negative comments, but realize frustration is at the root of most of them, and creating levels, even under the best of circumstances can certainly be just that. BUT, it is highly rewarding for those brave enough to stay the course!!

posted 12-14-2000 06:02 AM               

I know the bunch of programmers known as "unofficial" are hard at work on one.

Not knowing the structure of the WAD is a slowdown for them, like not knowing the structure of the set of individual objects that makes one.

BTW, you would not have a set of spare specs lying around for those, would you? :->