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- At 06:41 AM 7/5/96 EDT, Douglas Little wrote:
- >
- >> What would be nice is an automatic "look up and down" feature. Everytime
- >> you go up or down some stairs your view automatically tilts up or down so
- >> you can see whats at the top or bottom of the staircase. Afterall, it's
- >> what you do naturally.... :)
-
- >A new lump in the WAD would be the best solution, but it means having and
- >editor capable of defining stair zones as special objects instead of just
- >a bunch of sectors lumped together.
- >
- >Since Anthony would probably not appriciate me giving him more problems
- >than he already has porting that dreadful DEU source (I had to compile it
- >once on the PC so I know what it looks like), I will leave this one up to him.
-
- Well, having had a play arround with DCK, another PC Doom editor, I was
- actually thinking about copying a feature which automatically created stairs
- - you just define the area, and tell it the height of the top stair, and the
- number of steps and it does it. If I copied this (certainly not at first, but
- once its fairly stable, possibly...) this wouldn't be too hard an addition.
-
- Another feature which might get nicked is the ability to add sectors within
- sectors. This makes columns easy to do. This is how the 'dissappearing' well
- in the BM IWAD was created (but the nodes where built by DEU, which doesn't
- know about this method of constructing levels, and so screwed it up, causing
- it to dissappear...)
-
- Both of these will certainly not be appearing in the next few versions though...
-
- Anthony
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