Original message
| Phileosophos
wc@zyan.com
27523061
 |  "WadAuthor Progress Update #3"
, posted Thu 1 Mar 11:41  
Well, it's that time again already, and while I can't say I have much to report, I can say this much: I'm changing the way I'm reporting it. I forget sometimes that I have an actual web page devoted to WadAuthor. Progress updates are now available at that location and will be made available there in the future. I shall still continue to announce them here, but the content will be elsewhere.
So here's the big news for this update: CHECK OUT THE KEEN SCREENSHOTS! That's right, I've put some screenshots together to show you how things are evolving. Visit the WadAuthor web page at http://home.zyan.com/~wc/wauthor/index.html and take a look at the third progress update. Enjoy!
Williston Consulting makes software worth buying.
http://home.zyan.com/~wc
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| blod
blod@knet.ru
|  "Re(1):WadAuthor Progress Update #3"
, posted Tue 6 Mar 02:55
I'm very excited by the WA revival. It distinctly makes me think why I still don't return to level-making. Happy coding! WA is the best!
+++ Your death is just someone's frag +++
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| ReX
gurkha_boy@yahoo.com
| "Re(1):WadAuthor Progress Update #3" , posted Fri 2 Mar 05:43:
Very concise yet descriptive update.
I'll have you know that I was not always a "hard-core precision maven". (I'm assuming you were referring to me.) Sometimes I wish I could revert from being a detail-oriented, Type-A personality to the slob I was in college (and occasionally in grad school). However, the responsibilities of a job and family leave little scope for lounging around in grubby underwear, scratching myself everywhere, and creating imprecise curves or angled lines while editing some arcane game, whose name escapes me at the moment. That leaves me with no choice but to strive for perfection, for what it's worth ;) Therefore, I thank you from the bottom of my tiny heart for not letting something as silly as reason get in the way of accommodating your users.
Regards,
H.C.P. Maven
P.S. The image browser looks cool, your desktop is nicely organized, and the zoomed-in imp was wholly unnecessary. Sheesh, you can practically see down his throat :}
Only two things are certain: DooM and taxes
[this message was edited by ReX on Fri 2 Mar 05:44] |
| | Stphrz
stphrz63@hotmail.com
| "Re(2):WadAuthor Progress Update #3" , posted Sat 3 Mar 02:53:
Even though I'm not what you would call a H.C.P. maven, I'm really looking forward to working with an editor with a 1x1 grid. My editing skills aren't quite up to yours Rex, but I still come across the occasional situation where I find I need to adjust the position of a vertex by one unit. Most of the time this is to crop a texture to a specific length or to center a detail texture on an odd length wall. The only way I can do that now is by editing the raw data of the vertex position.
Lets face it, the standards expected of Doom levels today is a lot higher than it was a few years ago. If something's off center, even by one unit, it will be noticed. If the curve of a stairwell isn't just right, it will be noticed. I notice things like that, and I don't consider myself that fussy :) I mean Doom is nearly eight years old. Only hardcore people stick with something that long. The Doom community is a tough crowd to impress.
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A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous got me?
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[this message was edited by Stphrz on Sat 3 Mar 03:00] |
| | deepteam
jack@sbsoftware.com
| "Re(3): 1 unit movement" , posted Tue 6 Mar 18:21
I'm really looking forward to working with an editor with a 1x1 grid.
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DeePsea, DETH, ZETH and WadAuthor (probably ALL editors) have a 1 unit precision with snap turned off. One can drag to 1 unit precision (snap off).
This is not a pixel, but a DOOM unit. They are not the same thing. Sometimes I write pixel, when I mean to write DOOM unit. All vertices are in DOOM unit coordinates. A DOOM unit is normally visually coarser than a pixel, except when zoomed out.
As far as displaying a 1x1 grid, the 1st 3 also have had that for some time - usually one needs at least 8000% mag to make that easily visible. That's useful for a quick visual reference in a tight area - but has nothing to do with permitting 1 unit movements.
www.sbsoftware.com
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| | fragg
|  "You're not "too precise""
, posted Fri 2 Mar 17:37:
ReX, don't change -- you have a rare gift.
Your "precision of speech" and "precise descriptions" are a breath of fresh air in a world teeming with sloppy English grammar.
We all know, how sloppy grammar often causes MisUnderstandings.
(giving birth to confusion, conflict, hard feelings etc.).
So don't change.
fragg
[this message was edited by fragg on Fri 2 Mar 21:24] |
| | Phileosophos
wc@zyan.com
27523061
| "Re(1):You're not" , posted Fri 2 Mar 19:05
Isn't that funny how those things are correlated? That is, precision in language and precision in all other matters? Since going back to grad school it has been interesting to me to observe how often the "level" of one's verbal skills track exactly with one's intellectual prowess.
Williston Consulting makes software worth buying.
http://home.zyan.com/~wc
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| | Phileosophos
wc@zyan.com
27523061
| "Re(2):WadAuthor Progress Update #3" , posted Fri 2 Mar 09:08
(laughing) Don't ever stop being a detail-oriented Type-A personality. It heightens one's prospects for achievement in my experience. Note well: this doesn't mean one has to stop scratching everywhere; it means only that one must do it in a very clearly defined fashion.
Williston Consulting makes software worth buying.
http://home.zyan.com/~wc
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| | stphrz
stphrz63@hotmail.com
| "Re(3):WadAuthor Progress Update #3" , posted Sat 3 Mar 02:58
I just do my scratching where no one can see me. That way it doesn't matter :)
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A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous got me?
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| Don Incognito
dj_wallet_stealer@hotmail.com
84480454
| "Re(1):WadAuthor Progress Update #3" , posted Thu 1 Mar 20:31
Good Luck dude, WadAuthor is my favorite editor! :D
With love and care (laced with raw passion)
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| fragg
| "Re(1):WadAuthor Progress Update #3" , posted Thu 1 Mar 12:24
Checked out Update#3 photos. Absolutely incredible work. Thanks so much.
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| | Phileosophos
wc@zyan.com
27523061
| "Re(2):WadAuthor Progress Update #3" , posted Thu 1 Mar 12:46
Glad you approve! When I get a chance, I'm going to clean up the remaining bugs and start working on either lump-editing features or linedef/vertex-based sector drawing tools.
Williston Consulting makes software worth buying.
http://home.zyan.com/~wc
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| | Liberation
laton@btinternet.com
Doom4ever
| "Re(3):WadAuthor Progress Update #3" , posted Thu 1 Mar 14:08
Whats that great tune in the background from?
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| | Phileosophos
wc@zyan.com
27523061
| "Re(4):WadAuthor Progress Update #3" , posted Thu 1 Mar 14:33
You mean the music on the main WadAuthor web page? As is explained on the web page, it is an original composition of my own. I wrote it as music for the first and only real wadfile I ever released publicly. I thought it worked pretty well with the DOOM motif (grin).
Williston Consulting makes software worth buying.
http://home.zyan.com/~wc
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| | fragg
| "Re(5):WadAuthor Progress Update #3" , posted Thu 1 Mar 18:08:
Cruised yer Website, studied both Website and SEA of icons on yer Desktop.
Observation:
Let's see now, he's.... inta "Games-Design Study" ... inta "Software Design" ... inta "Repairing Databases Customers Screw Up" ... inta "Music Comp" ... inta "Major WAuthor Rebuild" ... Err, when duz he sleepe? <g>
[this message was edited by fragg on Sat 3 Mar 14:04] |
| | Phileosophos
wc@zyan.com
27523061
| "Re(6):WadAuthor Progress Update #3" , posted Thu 1 Mar 18:16
Sleep? Sleep... Oh yes, that whole lie-down-and-be-inactive thing. Yes, I vaguely remember sleep. Grad school cured me of that (grin). Actually I do have a bit much going on right now with trying to service clients of the business, working on my Ph.D., enhancing WadAuthor, learning 3DS Max, studying commodities trading in the futures market and so forth while trying to maintain my musical chops and sanity. Frankly, I think the sanity is losing. You be the judge.
Williston Consulting makes software worth buying.
http://home.zyan.com/~wc
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| | pming
pming@home.com
67389564
| "Re(7):WadAuthor Progress Update #3" , posted Sat 3 Mar 02:38
Hiya.
Nice texture chooser! Yummm!!!! :-) One note though, minor quibble, could you make the background color black? Or, better yet, user choice? I find white makes the images harder to see. (must be that whole 'pupil dialating' thing...;-)
"Crazy? ... Crazy like a fox."
--Harry Crumb
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| | Phileosophos
wc@zyan.com
27523061
| "Re(8):WadAuthor Progress Update #3" , posted Sat 3 Mar 16:59
I can look into it, yes. I'll have to see if the lower-level imaging stuff can support it. That's the kind of code where one must tread lightly if you know what I mean (grin). I don't know what the other editors do, but I build the images directly into memory for sake of speed. Windows doesn't get involved until it's time to display things. My life would have been so much easier back then if DirectX had existed.
Williston Consulting makes software worth buying.
http://home.zyan.com/~wc
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