Re: Descriptions of Mats and Things


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Posted by Alexei Novikov on February 22, 1998 at 09:45:43:

In Reply to: Re: Descriptions of Mats and Things posted by Stealth on February 22, 1998 at 04:01:22:

> > Back in the days of DF and WDFUSE there was a txt list available with basic
> > descriptions of the BM files, whether they were doors or walls, etc. and
> > their basic colours and sizes.

The guy who did it doesn't seem to be interested in JK editing...

> > BTW, if anyone is doing this please let me know. Also, if descriptions of
> > things were to be included, a useful category may be the distance to place
> > something off a floor so that it appears to sit on the floor.

Not anymore :-). New JED will show things as they actual bounding boxes (as well as
wireframes) and will automatically put things at appropriate distance from the grid.

> > To the Code Alliance, could you guys use such a list in the thing and mat
> > picker to categorise things as in WDFUSE.

Yep, even better ones - with hierarchical structure, like in LawMaker.

> We don`t have one for the specs, A temporary solution was used in the last template that
> came with Jed.There is descriptions in there for some of the things. That shows up in the
> res picker.

Well, it isn't a temporary solution, actually. The descriptions will stay even when
other things are added.

> At some point we`ll likely have custom lists like in LM.

As a matter of fact, they capability is already added, we just need the lists.

Alex.


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