Posted by CogKing on January 04, 1998 at 23:44:10:
In Reply to: Sectors again posted by Dave on January 04, 1998 at 20:37:19:
> Well as far as what cogman suggested.. I can't seem to cut a sector horizontally, only vertically.
It is CogKing, not CogMan... :-)
Anyway, why can't you cleave a sector horizontally ?
Just put the grid on any vertical surface to do it !
As far as Stealth's idea, that one's great, and I had even thought of it, but its much too complex to do when you might want 1 or two buildings, or more. Then I tried another thing, I tried cutting a surface and extruding it into my sector but unfortunatly jed only extrudes outward, no matter how you are viewing the sector (which angle you are viewing it from.)
You've got a conceptual problem there, of course extrude cannot be inwards !
> If anyone knows if there will ever be a time that jed will support making sectors within sectors please let me know. For what I want to edit, or should I say what kind of levels I wanna make, its a little too complex to use jed as it is now.
Come on, you can build levels with ANY complexity with Jed.
Look at Smo's levels, man !
> I can't seem to understand why jk would show a 3do object such as a crate, etc, but it wont display a 3d sector within its enviorment. And if it does, which it should seeing of past works - i.e. baron's hed, and katarn's home, then regardless which editing utility your using, I don't see why it wouldnt show up so long as you have the sector placed correctly, but hey....life is such. Thanks to everyone who's responded.
It is just not the way it is, mostly for a matter of efficiency.
The sectors are most probably face sorted for rendering, while the 3DOs are Z-buffered in afterwards...
> Guess the main question of this post is, is there yet an easier way of doing this, or will it ever be supported in jed?
I don't think so. Jed is doing things the way it should, and allow you to build levels of any complexity right now. YOU should change YOUR old fashionned way of thinking about building levels !
-CogKing