Re: Which is better.....?


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Posted by Armage Bedar on November 17, 1998 at 13:04:54:

In Reply to: Which is better.....? posted by Ironman on November 17, 1998 at 12:38:00:

> I was wondering out of the two editors Jkedit
> and Jed which one is best or can it be possible
> to use both?

Well, for starters, JED is FREE. No cost involved at all, and hopefuly it'll stay that way. Also, most people in the JK community can help you with JED problems because it is so widespread. There is also a lot more documentation for JED than JkEdit, and fewer patches are released (JkEdit seems to have a new patch every 4 or 5 days...) JED has the added advantage of having plug-in support and the on-line support of the programmer, Alexei Novikov. Check out the Code Alliance site for more info.

JkEdit is made by Ole Thomasen. IT is a good editor, but it's main disadvantage is the fact that it costs money to really use. There is a demo in which you can do up to so many sectors per level, but this limits you quite fast. If only the author would make it freeware, he'd have quite a few more users, and some real competition for JED. Check out the JkEdit site for more info.

Now, there is one other editor known to be in development. It's called ForceBuilder, and it's by Mattias Welander. There have been numerous questions about FB since he almost cancelled it permanently, closed down the message board, and is also working on many other projects. However, he put out a working build a while ago (possession of which is now illegal, BTW) which was spectacular for its time (JED and JkEdit were in early .2 and .3 stages at the time), and the final version could turn out to be the JED-killer. However, Mattias may only put out one build of it, as he reportedly has received several annoying complaints and threatening emails over the past 5-6 months... Check out the Force Builder home page for more info.

BTW, it is possible to use both, just be careful when intermingling levels made in one into another editor. If JkEdit levels are gobbed, and then opened in JED, they should be okay.

-Armage Bedar


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