Re: More TR tools.

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: > I mean, do not focus all us in the same tool, Tomb Raider has : > severals important section: : > : > - Textures : > - Room Meshes : > - Portals : > - Room solids : > - Source Lights : > - Statics (ornaments, furnitures, etc); : > - Commands : > - Object and Characters Meshes : > - Grounds and Fly zones : > - Animated textures : > - Items : > - Sound data : > : > So please, CHOOSE A SECTION that nobody else has done yet and make a tool : > for it. : First, let me note that there are really fewer "sections" that TPascal has : outlined - Portals are inherently part of rooms (and could be considered part : of Room Meshes), "statics" are not really any different from "objects and : characters", items are just instances of moveables or sprites ("item" just adds : world-coordinate initial position and orientation). I agree that there should : be multiple tools, but I think there are really only three or four actual : editors (or import/export tools) to be built here. : As for "don't work on what other people are working on," I disagree, at least : at this stage. There are not enough of us to assign tasks to, no-one here is : working on this full-time (as far as I know), so we can't depend on Person X : to deliver his/her piece, and everyone is still in learning mode. You build a : viewer, then work on turning it into an editor. If someone else releases a : similar viewer, you look at what they did, copy the best parts, remove things : from your own code that you learned a better way to do, and continue. : I plan to release TRueMesh soon (in the next week or so). TRueMesh is a mesh/ : moveable/item viewer that includes all the animations. It's working today, : but needs some cleanup. TRueMesh may or may not help other people understand : the meshes and animations, but it has certainly helped me. Once people are : comfortable writing viewers, then they can progress to editors. We need to : take "baby steps" - walk before we can run. Viewers can easily evolve into : editors (TRueView is doing just that, in a limited way). : I would also like to note that, while the TRosettaStone document is filled with : good information, it still contains unknowns or uncertainties. It may be : difficult or impossible to write a truly general-purpose editor until these : mysteries are solved. The best way to solve them is through the use of level : dumps and viewers; that's just the state we're in at the moment. : : Yuri Zhivago

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