From: Christian Wolinski To: ml@qoole.com Reply-To: ml@qoole.com Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 03:28:28 -0400 Subject: REPENTING Hi ! SIGSEGV error is gone. Why You may ask. Well I stopped trying to do Quake2 and dis some Quake1 editing instead. When the bugs go to bed I'll port them to Quake2 with some program I got off the web. I'm in love with Qoole and its simplicity. However it is lacking. I tried to hollow some pretty complex brushes and Qoole dumped on me.When I did the hollow in several CSG cuts it went ok. So what is missing ? Well more tolerance for size (it wasn't all that huge or anything) and secondly PROGRESS BARS <----- (I dont know how to stress this point). Qoole is damn fast. I never thought it would me so neat and concise to build those huge messy levels I've seen around. A problem I found, here is that I dont seem to be able to hide objects / groups. Oh and being able to skip from object to object (press key) would be real good for parsing those heavily congested parts of the map.Thirdly I do have a 32 bit graphics card and Monster, so a wireframe view with a depth shading would do some interesting things to viewports. (perspective would be cool too... and quic mouse rotation even better)... ANGLES !!! Qoole is orthogonal. It's a nightmare to allign things that are not orthogonal. I used to do some schematics for robotics with some industry standard editors. A really really cool feature for Qoole to import is planes. Let the user assign planes (one or many) to a brush that will stick with it. Then If you want to allign you simply make those planes or brush sides parallel (create a dependancy) at some level of separation (or coincident), set the offset so you could make them meet on those planes . This definately will improve tunnnel making, door matching, windows, elevators etc etc. Would you believe that I spent a few moments laughing AT Qoole. It has move, and it has rotate .. . and even scale (though uniform scale would be great), but it seems to be lacking a mirror. That pretty much took care of my CTF and TF maps. Thanks Chris Note: That SIGSEGV error has to do something with textures I'mm pretty sure of it. and Quake II definately. Though I get rare random errors in Quake 1. oh and whatever happened to stairs in Qoole ?