posted 12-02-2001 10:31 PM               

That page will disappear when the Next Generation is released.

Goodbye.

posted 12-03-2001 03:34 AM               

That's why I ask you for two things: before to make the final decision, wait until I publish the Tomb Raider A - The TechnoEgyptians. Well not the entire game, only the second part (then I will prepare the third and then the first).

That is not a kind of level you described. They are two levels not simply "linked in a one". They are a real and actual game. It will take many hours to finish them, not because you wonder around as you don't know where to go. You need so much time to finish it as there are a lot of new puzzles, a lot of "hard rooms" very calibrated and until you don't finish a room you can even go around, but you must solve it. It seems "a normal bragging" but it is NOT. The story will be revealed very slowly and only at the end of the two levels you had a complete idea of what I created, with a lot of surprises while playing it.... simply wait for another month... and we will hear again. But after finished them, don't say "psiko is actually MAD"

posted 12-04-2001 05:17 PM               

I understand that some might want more freedom to design and would be able to do more with better tools.

I will not do a point by point refutation of replies I disagree with.
Yes, I felt blue. But I am not putting the cork back in the bottle, I just watched as the butterfly just stayed there.

But it is true that I could do more and why should I deprive the group of my exertise, such as it is?
So here is my last fling: I will attempt to design a Wad animation editor on the same line as the Texture editor I did a while back.

Here are the specs:
Open a wad and load all data into an object model.
Can save (write back) to a new wad and this wad will be useable.
A Was might be loaded to list the object names.
A BMP or TGA might be loaded to show the textures...or the texture might be extracted from the Wad.

A first tab will list all data structures with (according to user preferences) summary info, detailed or highly detailed. This report could be saved to a variety of format (CSV and TXT) or printed directly. Whole or selection printing is supported.
This could be usefull for investigating problem wads.

A second tab will permit examination of meshes, list their animations and the examination of one animation broken in single steps.

For now I will not go farther because I do not know how I will do it.

The final goal is an animation editor that would permit changing a mesh animation in a wad and save it back to make an immediatly usable new wad.
A model of behavior is to be found in my TextureAssign program.

I will keep you posted in the folowing groups: http://www.eidosinteractive.com/forums/index.html http://pub19.ezboard.com/ftreditingzonefrm2 http://trwad.community.everyone.net/community/scripts/directory.pl
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