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sevendoomers
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 Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:15 pm Post subject: DeleD units and trigger shapes |
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I've been testing DeleD for some time now, and so far it's been a very promising level editor! However, there's a minor thing that's been bothering me:
My engine works with a space where 1 unit = 1 meter. Apparently DeleD doesn't like that - I've noticed that object creation and camera movement works better with the scale hundred times bigger. I could scale everything down afterwards, but it'd become too much of a hassle, and models imported to DeleD wouldn't really fit in. I can't use DeleD lights, since the light objects tend to be huge in my environment, hiding everything in it.
It'd be easier if DeleD could optionally adjust its functionality according to gridline size, for example (I've set the gridline size to 1). If not that, at least an
option to set camera wasd movement speed would be cool! Right now it jumps ridiculous amounts.
The other thing that came to my mind is that DeleD could support trigger shapes natively. AFAIK the only option is to use cubes with transparent materials. I know that there are tags and such, but eventually the scene would be filled with garbage boxes interfering the actual editing.
Despite the little problems it's the best level editor I've so far tried. I better start writing the plugin now  .Thanks for listening! |
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Hi sevendoomers
Welcome,Happy you like DeLeD & hope to see some of your work soon.
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Jeroen
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: DeleD units and trigger shapes |
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Hello there sevendoomers, welcome to the forums! 
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| If not that, at least an option to set camera wasd movement speed would be cool! Right now it jumps ridiculous amounts. |
Ah, you can this already by setting the Zoomspeed on mousewheel in the Options screen.
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| The other thing that came to my mind is that DeleD could support trigger shapes natively. AFAIK the only option is to use cubes with transparent materials. I know that there are tags and such, but eventually the scene would be filled with garbage boxes interfering the actual editing. |
Good point. What exactly do you have in mind when you say "trigger shapes natively"?
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sevendoomers
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the quick responses!
"Zoomspeed on mousewheel" seemingly works also for wasd controls, I should have tried that. My bad! The name was a bit confusing though...
Trigger shapes could be as simple as cubes rendered in quad wireframe. Only the basic transformation ops would be supported (no materials or modifiers). Additionally they could then be obtained as AABs with engine specific tags. An option to hide these triggers would be ideal as well.
Heck, even a wireframed rectangle would help a lot ! Please let me know if I have overlooked something! |
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sevendoomers
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
I assume you found out how to change the unit scale in the Options Menu?
Personally, I work in a 1:1 metric scale, and by adjusting the settings, and near/far fade distances, I work very well. |
I set the camera clipping planes and gridline sizes to appropriate values, but there still seems to be a problem with oversized light objects. Also creating new object bugs a bit with relatively small parameters. |
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AWM Mars
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| AWM Mars wrote: |
Hi,
I assume you found out how to change the unit scale in the Options Menu?
Personally, I work in a 1:1 metric scale, and by adjusting the settings, and near/far fade distances, I work very well. |
I set the camera clipping planes and gridline sizes to appropriate values, but there still seems to be a problem with oversized light objects. Also creating new object bugs a bit with relatively small parameters. |
By 'Light Objects' you referring to the models used to show lights in the scene? If so, you can turn them off in the 3D viewport, so they are less distracting, again this is in options.
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sevendoomers
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| AWM Mars wrote: |
| sevendoomers wrote: |
| AWM Mars wrote: |
Hi,
I assume you found out how to change the unit scale in the Options Menu?
Personally, I work in a 1:1 metric scale, and by adjusting the settings, and near/far fade distances, I work very well. |
I set the camera clipping planes and gridline sizes to appropriate values, but there still seems to be a problem with oversized light objects. Also creating new object bugs a bit with relatively small parameters. |
By 'Light Objects' you referring to the models used to show lights in the scene? If so, you can turn them off in the 3D viewport, so they are less distracting, again this is in options. |
Allright, another problem solved (although they're still visible in other viewports). I was hoping there was a more gentle solution than just hiding them, but I'm fine with this. I'll stop whining now:).
Btw is there any plugins or anything that would allow me to load textures from zip archives? Is it possible to write such a plugin? Extracting all the game files to texture directory might be a bit rough workaround...
Also I'm having a problem with DDS loading. In material editor any DDS texture (with or without compression) displays "invalid file data". Is there a reason for this? |
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Jeroen
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| sevendoomers wrote: |
Btw is there any plugins or anything that would allow me to load textures from zip archives? Is it possible to write such a plugin? Extracting all the game files to texture directory might be a bit rough workaround...
Also I'm having a problem with DDS loading. In material editor any DDS texture (with or without compression) displays "invalid file data". Is there a reason for this? |
If you can work with Delphi, I'm sure it's possible to write your own plugin to load textures from zip archives. Best way to get started, I think, is to search for a freeware Delphi zip component (perhaps here?) to be used within a Delphi 7 solution + check out the Plugin SDK that comes with DeleD.
I didn't write the DDS handling routines myself, so I can't help out there.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 1:54 pm Post subject: Unit Scale? |
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Am I missing something? I have no option for Unit Scale in the Options panel, and this huge mesh thing is killing me right now 
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