Posted by Dave on January 06, 1998 at 13:28:59:
Stealth, CogKing.... I apologize for all the aggrivation you two went through. I know what its like when you are trying to explain to someone how to do something, and they just can't seem to get rid of their old methods to look at how to do something differently. Part of my problem is I learn by example and I couldn't find any examples, but I finally understood what you two were talking about last night.
First of all I couldn't cut a sector horizontally, no matter how I turned it on the grid. Thats because...duh...I didn't have the horizontal surfaces aligned with the grid before I tried to cleave the sector. Then...which I can't believe... I was trying to make as you put, paper walls. For some reason I was and wasnt thinking in 3d at the same time.
Like you said, drop what I've learned and learn a new way. This way isnt all that bad, and its actually kind of fast as well. I havent learned how to do door openings or make the textures appear as they should on the walls yet (i.e. some appear vertically, some appear horizontally) but in time I think I should be able to knock those two out on my own. I do hope that to make a roof will be as easy as extruding the surface of my ceiling (the top part that is left by deleting my top sector) and changing the shape of it. Because you wont be able to go up into the roof im not worried about having thick walls up there, so hopefully this won't be too complex.
Seeing as how it looks as if this is going to get very complex at what you are looking at (with all the lines) do you think jed will ever support an option that you can check that might per say make all the other sectors other than the one you have selected dissappear while you are making mods to it, so you don't have to strain your eyes so bad to concentrate on which surface your actually messing with? If not I guess its not all that bad, just have to take it slowly.
Ah and about textures, this is my theory. If you texture a surface before you cleave it, will the textures all align up right? But even if that works I guess its only half done cause you have to worry about the top part of the cleaved sectors that you will need to retile and then your almost back to root 1.
Anyway, thanks you two, and both of you take it easy, your doing a great job helping all of us.
Thanks for your time, Dave