Re: jk edit


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Posted by Jeff W. on June 23, 1998 at 01:26:17:

In Reply to: Re: jk edit posted by Evan on June 23, 1998 at 01:00:19:

: : If so, just e-mail me and I will never set foot on this board again. But I will still run the FAQ, and I will continue to build up a knowledge of level geometry (My speciality) and blow everybody else out of the water with a level using techniques I haven't told anybody. And I can do that too, I already know about fifty ways to do stairs, hundreds of techniques for cleaving out different shapes, little tips for making it easier, ect.

: What makes you think no one else hasn't thought of these techniques?
: And besides, techniques are BS when it comes to JED. Once you understand the concept of JED you can use something called COMMON SENSE to figure out how to do something. Brian's tutorial on beams should be the only thing anyone would need to understand JED geometry. Once you have that any shape is possible, if you use your brain....

: And why don't you just blow us all away with your techniques? Make a decent level and impress us all. Or is that what the SD bridge was for? Didn't work too well if it was, no offense.

:
: The reason I am posting this:
: Because I am a bit annoyed at how you go around calling yourself "master" and having a shrine ETC. People that blow their own horn too much annoy me a lot.
: Want examples? here are some I remembered:

: "and that SD bridge was a very FAITHFULL recreation"
: "What happened to my shrine?" --you asked brian that
: Also, every time you post about your level you have to tell the world that it took you 1 hour or 10 minutes or whatever. We don't care!! People can do a lot better than that.

: Now, enough grumping, here is some advice. People don't read FAQs. It is so much easier to just ask on a message board than to look through a FAQ. I know that people are going to ask the same questions that are in your FAQ. I know from experience.
: More advice, the reason a lot of people dislike you is that you call yourself JEDmaster. Its a name that makes you look arrogant. That may be ok for someone like CogKing because he is definetly in the top 10 coggers in the world. If you stopped acting like you are the best at JED you would be a well respected member of the comunity.
: You do help a lot of beginners out and that is good.

: Evan C

Yup, Evan is right on the money. There is a 1001 ways to do most things in JK (eg. stairs), but most importantly it's good to know how to make them in the correct manner. The technique I was advised to use by a very reliable source (CK) means the stairs have 0 effect on framerate - that's good enough for me. So unless I'm going to use spiraling stairs or stairs that interact with gameplay (eg. the exploding stais in Vol Kranst) - I'll be sticking to the technique that works thge best.

Basically it's hard to respect people who fling around statements like "blow everybody else out of the water" when talking about their levels. Most of the really good level editors (like Jason Burton) don't have to go around saying any comments like these. I for one can't stand to see people (especially those who haven't released completed levels) - blowing their own trumpets and claiming there work/skills surpass everyone elses.


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