Entity 1.5 Preview

Monkey Terd · Post by **Monkey Terd** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:07 pm

It's been a while since an Entity update, so this should keep you guys occupied untill something much bigger is released...All changes/additions were done either by myself, or Anthony. We are open, and hoping for new suggestions, so bring em' on!

There's soooo much stuff added...and here is "The Just" of it.

-External Map Paths, once you set them, it won't ask you for them again.

-New Refrence Editor UI, with some new options like "Goto Tag" and "null out". Also added tag descriptions to the Meta Tree, for all game platforms...

-Built in Mainmenu editor, which will also add new bitmap RAW for new preview images.

-PTRM, DECR Viewers, extractors, and injectors.

-Proper tag renamer, new names can be any length, and should read right in all other modding apps...

-Unicode String Editor, with image and syntax recognition, also has a search feature :]

-New ability to have multiple chunk cloners open, so you no longer need to add the meta to the map for each individual chunk edit...

-Ambient Sound Spawns, Teamspawns, and objective respawn barrier added to the BSP viewer, the treeview now has descriptions for everything, and a nice label rendering system added.

Once again, we are open to new suggestions and features, so please anything plausable post it. Oh, and about the Yaw, Pitch, Roll rotation error, we're workin' on it..PLEASE STOP ASKING ABOUT THAT! Thanks, and have a nice day.

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:08 pm

Glad you got around to letting people know about it

We are open to suggestions like he mentioned

kibito87 · Post by **kibito87** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:15 pm

Awesome job. Good to see people are still working on Entity. From what I am observing it looks like a very nice upgrade. Keep up the good work!

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:18 pm

Make the drag and drop functionality (rather than map rebuilder thing) work 100% efficiently everytime and I'm fine...

But some of those additions seem fairly kool... If its all fine and dandy then perhaps I'll use it as my main modding application

snakejknight · Post by **snakejknight** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:19 pm

make the chunk cloner able to delete entire reflexives, instead of individual chunks

bitmap internalizer

Monkey Terd · Post by **Monkey Terd** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:21 pm

snakejknight wrote:make the chunk cloner able to delete entire reflexives, instead of individual chunks

bitmap internalizer

It's got both of those.

snakejknight · Post by **snakejknight** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:22 pm

nice... fix the way it injects bipds maybe??? perhaps make it show the ai squads as they spawn... meaning show the bipd and vehicles they are in... and if possible have options to show individual squad spawns instead of all @ once

Pyroman · Post by **Pyroman** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:36 pm

Still no progress in the bsp meta way? Ah well still looks great man.

Heh I remember you were begging me for new ideas to add. Pretty much couldn't come up with anything.

halo0001 · Post by **halo0001** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:45 pm

nice cant wait for the realese

SingingBlaze · Post by **SingingBlaze** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:10 pm

If you could incoporate Detox's Tdtl Editor, Weather and Water Tools, Shades Bsp Scenery Editor in there with permission that would be sweet. I'm assuming Bitmap Internalization is working correctly as well and maybe try doing some work on injecting and extracting bump maps. Pretty please?

GruntLeet · Post by **GruntLeet** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:36 pm

Are you guys almost done with the new one..?

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:58 pm

Stunning.

shade45 · Post by **shade45** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:15 am

Looks good

GruntLeet · Post by **GruntLeet** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:23 am

So we get to view the spawns as bitmap MC..?

PyroBlizzard · Post by **PyroBlizzard** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:32 am

THats awesome

I have a suggestion that might help:

Could the hill points and objective things be different models there models or something different each. Because i find it difficult that on levels like foundation you have about 6 objectives in one spot and they all look like master chiefs.

Also is anything being changed in the model injectotr? As sometimes the models come out with really wierd lighting and biped models dont work.

smacktalker · Post by **smacktalker** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:47 am

perhaps you can make the bsp viewer somewhat more optional... for example with the objective locations, you can set something in the bsp viewer, which i think is the bind..

perhaps make it so when you click the scenery chunk, it shows the sceneryname like in entity alpha

perhaps make it when you click a collection in bspviewer, make the spawn time adjustable, and max on map and such.. just some stuff so it makes modding somewhat more easier..

and sound internalizer

and the internal sound player!

so far looking very good. best entity so far

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:06 am

awesome freatures

I am wainting!!!

SpecOp44 · Post by **SpecOp44** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:31 am

Very nice.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:06 am

Very nice, how much?

I would really like to see a search function, like Ch2R's... and to choose how many times it duplicates something, trust... it's tedious 'duping something a lot...

Also, can you fix it so it works with multiple partitions/drives... e.g. whenever I try cloning chunks and other stuff, if the map is on a different drive to the app, it screws!

<3

slayer410 · Post by **slayer410** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:08 am

ScottyGEE wrote:Make the drag and drop functionality (rather than map rebuilder thing) work 100% efficiently everytime and I'm fine...

But some of those additions seem fairly kool... If its all fine and dandy then perhaps I'll use it as my main modding application

Damn straight Scotty.