Re: [GD-General] Level Editing

[Javier A. <ja...@py...>]

phi...@pl... wrote:

> Or indeed, any other tools that people
> are writing plug-ins for.

I guess it doesn't count, but after the recent Photoshop 7's braindead
monkeying around with TGA's alpha channel (and their terribly unhelpful
developer relations - almost worse than not having one at all, their
standard response to any question is "you are wrong"), I decided to write a
Photoshop plugin myself, either a transparency filter or a TGA file format.
Simple thing...

I was horrified at what I saw after installing the SDK. What a terrible
mess. Projects linked to sourcesafe databases, wrong file headers included
on PC, samples that Just Don't Work... 3DS4 IPAS programming seemed like a
blessing in comparison. I mean, it _can_ be done, but it was not going to be
the couple-hour hack such a simple thing should have been. In the end I
talked with my lead artist and we figured out a Photoshop action to help us
with the whole alpha / transparency mess. They're sticking with Photoshop 6
as well, Adobe's not getting upgrade money from us this year.

Sorry I had to get out of my chest. :)

  Javier Arevalo
  Pyro Studios