bytor

aw darnit there i go after six months of perusing this forum and promising myself that i wouldn't screw up on my very first post and look what i do...like i'm gonna tell a regular producer of quality levels like Enjay to NOT give help on an editor?! I've got a small handful of other's work on my computer that i refer to for help which includes two sets of levels by Enjay! It's an indication of how frustrated i've let myself get while trying to use DeePsea. grovel grovel let me do this right and stop babbling......I do NOT recommend DeePsea (even though it does MORE than any other map editor I've seen) because It's so damn hard to figure out! i'll crawl back into my hole to work on my mental issues now. you're welcome.

I just came back to mapping after a ten year hiatus and the first editor I tried was Wadauthor. A scripting,etc...tutorial was available which was geared more towards Wadauthor and I had alot of catching up to do but I couldn't draw sectors the way I remembered doing before. So I tried Deepsea and quickly ran it to it's trial limit and then paid for it's registered .exe but then I try to import patches and got so frustrated that I almost punched my monitor! I got it to recognise transparencies after several attempts but can't tell you how. Something to do with converting it to what the program wants but I was importing graphics that were already doom pallette. Yeah...it's the whole 0,255,255...thing (gotta tell it what to see as transparent)but this convert option also destroyed the color of regular Doom graphics on several attempts. It's easier to import with SlumpEd by far.

Enjay said:

I also know that he has been very busy with real-life work over the past couple of years.

But...I paid for this! Real-life money! But don't get me wrong...I should've noticed the year on the website (2006)! And I love the map editor aspect only because I've gotten familiar with it? Throw the graphics manipulation into the trash. Couldn't be much work to change the menus? Oh that Doombuilder2 looks really nifty, though! Doombuilder2 and SlumpEd! Use those and get familiar with 'em before spending money on Deepsea. All my praises go to those individuals who maintain and offer ports and editors for free! True fans that are keeping this Doom 'community' alive (site moderators, too!). And I would never tutor someone on how to use a program that another is charging money for! You have all these people putting alot of work into some great programs seemingly for the love and glory without charging a dime. Refer them to the website. "RandomLag"...fitting.