Kyka
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Kagemaru_H said:
I scarcely use 3D mode anyway since it's way too dark for me to see anything.
Nest time you go into 3D mode, hit 'b'. This toggles between all sectors being at their set light levels and turning all sectors up to full brightness so you can see better. Works really well sometimes, especially when making darker areas.
Super Jamie said:
It is for this reason I have trained myself to save THEN enter 3D mode. Every time. It's like muscle memory now.
The only time I make Doom builder crash is when I hit the 3D mode button more than once. I gotta be so careful with that, especially seeing as I have reconfigured all doombuilders keys so they are all under my fingertips. So the enter 3D mode key is 'w', which is surrounded by sector mode (q), linedef mode (a), and navigating the map (e,s,d,f). Otherwise, I don't think DoomBuilder has ever crashed on me, other than for this reason. Maybe I am just lucky.
Antroid said:
Incoming wall of text!
First was not exactly an editing experience, but an experience non the less.
I fucked up something with XWE, i think i copied one map to make a new one, but the original got replaced by the new one too. I'm not entirely sure how it happened, but still, i lost a pretty good map completely, and didn't have it in any backups, because i noticed it too late.
Needless to say, i was very upset, because i knew the memories of all the ideas from that map (backed up by a screenshot and a video) would haunt me till the end of my days, yet i would never be able to accurately recreate it. It's a pretty terrible feeling.
But in the end, i managed to salvage it. Thing is, during that summer i borrowed my grandpa's laptop for a month that i spent in the country. Of course i had my mapping projects there, and a few games. Granddad doesn't use the laptop at all, but before returning it to him i deleted all my stuff. So, after losing any hope of recovering the map from my PC, i take a recovery program, doom builder and zdoom on a flash card and go to his place. After a half-our worth of nervous work i finally recover my priceless map! Shithaha.wad was renamed to Shithaha_restored.wad that day and remains like that even now. The legit name will probably involve the word "restored" in some way, like "DOOM restored" or somehing, to honor that moment. %)
Dude. Is that map finished? I would love to see it.
A pretty bad feeling is also when you build something without inspiration, half-assed, but believe it is okay, only too look at it in horror when you get it finished. Luckily, i've managed to remove all such parts from my maps and replace them with nicer ones.
I am totally like this. And also like this I keep redoing them till I get something that looks good to me.
Now the weirdest one happened a few days ago. I was drawing a trigger linedef not connected to anything across a corridor as i usually do, but this time it wouldn't appear there. And then i noticed that DB2 tells me that it "Created a romantic drawing" everytime i draw that and fail. Immidiately i tried just making a sector, only to "create a cheerful drawing". I didn't know WTF and was creeped out for a while :D
I thought of providing screenshots of some things related to those cases but i decided not to, it'd be even more pretentious than this long-ass post. If anyone is curious though, i could snap something, for historic purposes :D
WTH is with that? Hmmm
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12-25-09 18:34 
