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ALE v.2.1 is now available:

http://ale.h14.ru/

New features:
- Auto-grass;
- Replay Manager, (idea and some elements of design from "elmatim0r" by milagros)
- Level Manager;
These tools should be useful for sorting levs and recs.
- and others;

English ReadMe will published soon.
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if it is auto-grass, how thick is teh grass then? I wonder

I can't be able to test and I whane know
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Behk wrote:if it is auto-grass, how thick is teh grass then? I wonder
Thickness is customizable
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play-function only saves the level.
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Pertti wrote:play-function only saves the level.
Set Up the Elma folder in Preferences.
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After playing, the editor jams totally.

More complaining: many, many good things but its slow to use. Polygons are deleted how?Autograssing is pretty good but it wont work on bumby ground.

Internal errors dont make me laugh either.
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Sounds nice! ;)
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Whohoo! \o/

/me loves ALE
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Pertti wrote:After playing, the editor jams totally.

More complaining: many, many good things but its slow to use. Polygons are deleted how?Autograssing is pretty good but it wont work on bumby ground.

Internal errors dont make me laugh either.
constructive criticism is nice, complaining is rude. If you don't like it, make your own or try listing a detail of the issues you have so the creator can fix them instead of listen to you whine.

Side note: Looking forward to an english readme, as this will be the first time I use the program.
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ghen wrote: constructive criticism is nice, complaining is rude. If you don't like it, make your own or try listing a detail of the issues you have so the creator can fix them instead of listen to you whine.
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hmm auto-grass is a bit much, some things are great in ALE but the thing that keeps me using the normal editor is simplicity, I would rather a "in-editor hack" than an external program. I know you put alot of effort but really... how many people use this as a in-built editor substitute? :?
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I use it. And I didn't take part in Fastest design contest because only internal editor was allowed.
ALE has many useful features such as seeing how your pictures will be placed in the game. That reduces moving start around and testing just to see if pictures are not above ground etc...
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ghen wrote:
Pertti wrote:After playing, the editor jams totally.

More complaining: many, many good things but its slow to use. Polygons are deleted how?Autograssing is pretty good but it wont work on bumby ground.

Internal errors dont make me laugh either.
constructive criticism is nice, complaining is rude. If you don't like it, make your own or try listing a detail of the issues you have so the creator can fix them instead of listen to you whine.

Side note: Looking forward to an english readme, as this will be the first time I use the program.
Sigh. I was reporting bugs, not whining how bad it is. Its better than the original, only slower to use becouse of some bugs.

I found out how to delete polygons and I've learnt to use it properly.
Lostsoul wrote:I use it. And I didn't take part in Fastest design contest because only internal editor was allowed.
ALE has many useful features such as seeing how your pictures will be placed in the game. That reduces moving start around and testing just to see if pictures are not above ground etc...
Seeing how the pictures will be put is great, just as the start object shows if your head will crash to ceiling. Mayne great things but this silly thing makes it sometinmes even frustrating to use: when you move vertexes, sometimes it decides to move whole polygon (if you dont hit exactly at the corner). For that, i thank god there's undo-button, which is very good thing.
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For the first time I'm going to check it out when I get home, I've never tried any external editors so far. This sounds, though, too interesting to be skipped.
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Pertti wrote:only slower to use becouse of some bugs.
Please report all bugs here or to nicolas@nightmail.ru
Pertti wrote:Mayne great things but this silly thing makes it sometinmes even frustrating to use: when you move vertexes, sometimes it decides to move whole polygon.
When you click to edge, whole polygon begans selected, may be you should be more precise (in Preferences you can set up "radius of capture")?

So, by my own experience, a lot of "bugs", those peoples found in ALE,
actually come from unwillingness to learn ALE.
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In my case, its not any unwillingness, its just pure stupidness. Its my nature to find all the bad things even in good things.
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I put up my own "help file" on my guide site:
http://www.mopokuskis.shyper.com/guide/

Lot's of stuff ther but I'm still waiting for the official enlgish readme so i can add keyboard shortcuts and stuff.

Here's some stuff i couldn't figure out what it was:
Use normal capture - ?
Use smart capture - ?
Don't check orientation - ?
(Is it really possible to have levels with wrong orientation?)

Also the "Previous" and "Next" buttons are deactivated(?)
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nice, but i cant get quite used to it...
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zworqy wrote: Is it really possible to have levels with wrong orientation?
Look EX04.lev.
zworqy wrote: Also the "Previous" and "Next" buttons are deactivated(?)
Deactivated only in Edit mode, like in ALE 2.0

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Nicolas wrote:
zworqy wrote: Is it really possible to have levels with wrong orientation?
Look EX04.lev
OK, i did, but I still don't understand. Everything in the level is the same, no matter if "check orientation" in on or off.
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zworqy wrote:
Nicolas wrote:
zworqy wrote: Is it really possible to have levels with wrong orientation?
Look EX04.lev
OK, i did, but I still don't understand. Everything in the level is the same, no matter if "check orientation" in on or off.
Ok, i'll try to explain it. One of ground polygon in this level has direction of path-tracing like as sky polygon (reverse with respect to normal ground polygon). Therefore it is drawing in Elma incorrectly. I described the way of creating sach polygons in readme.txt ALE v.2.0, namely:
"For creating "invisible" polygon, you should create sky polygon in ground, press "Check", turn check orientation to off, move this polygon to sky."
I.e. you should set orientation of polygon to "sky", then move it to sky. If "check orientation" is toogled off, function "check topology" (it calls automatically when you press "Save") don't change orientation of polygons.
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Aha, ok, now I understand. But maybe "clipping" is a better word than orientation here.

Though I can't see why you would want invisible polygons :roll:
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zworqy wrote:Aha, ok, now I understand. But maybe "clipping" is a better word than orientation here.
It's orientation (path-tracing of vertices), not clipping.
At the right of wrong-oriented polygon you can see "shadow" (appears because of specific elma graphic engine)
zworqy wrote: Though I can't see why you would want invisible polygons :roll:
May be someone wants to use, i don't know.
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Very nice prog!

But its filled up with bugs!
My advice would be, that all users of ALE edit0rs should hav both 2.0 and 2.1, cause 2.1 hav a bunch of bugs!

* When u start the program, sometimes it crashes and show 100 dialog boxes!

* Sometimes the Auto - Grass makes grass which is going out in the universe!

* When u delete the only polygon, the game crashes!


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Could someone reupload this file, I want to test it.
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tijsjoris wrote:Could someone reupload this file, I want to test it.
http://www.zworqy.com/elmaguide/ale.html
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Thank you. I didn't find elma guide on your site though.
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hoi nicolas.
great program. would be slightly greater if there was a shortcut for paste :roll: 8O :o :)
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i have a very strange problem with ale :?
its not showing me any longer the polygons.. i think if there are vertex-points above a specific ammount.

i added a screenshot.
never had problems with ale; tried everything in options and installed version 1, 2 and 2.1 at least 2 times.
its not working with any version.

if someone knows whats going on or had that problem before, please let me know. i miss ale very mucho :cry: Image
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Weird :?

But if you click on teh little arrow by teh "View" button, you get a lot of options where you can choose what parts of the level to view. I didn't manage to get it to show vertices with polygons, though.
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yeah.. i tried them all by the view-button.
nothing helped. :(

what a shit!! ARGL


what u mean by "vertices with polygons"?
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sleap wrote:what u mean by "vertices with polygons"?
should have been "both vertices and polygons"

sorry.
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zworqy wrote:
sleap wrote:what u mean by "vertices with polygons"?
should have been "both vertices and polygons"

sorry.
oh :) no problem man!
so highlighting vertices and showing polygons?
well.. that would work for sure.. just click the "show polygon" and "highlight vertices" in the "view"-options.

at least i think thats what you meant.. 8O :wink:


edit: "work for sure" if you do NOT have my computer :? :evil:


jesus christ!! :? :cry:
now i cant move start and exit.... oh OH!! what! in the name of the holy spirit is going here?!
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have you tried to reinstall the editor? that can make wonders...
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sleap wrote:
zworqy wrote:
sleap wrote:what u mean by "vertices with polygons"?
should have been "both vertices and polygons"

sorry.
oh :) no problem man!
so highlighting vertices and showing polygons?
well.. that would work for sure.. just click the "show polygon" and "highlight vertices" in the "view"-options.

at least i think thats what you meant.. 8O :wink:
Damn wrong again. silly me. I meant "vertices WITHOUT polygons", as in I couldn't replicate your problem.
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RK wrote:have you tried to reinstall the editor? that can make wonders...
yes. as said.. i reinstalled all versions at least 2 times, but that does not help.
i even re-downloaded them.
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zworqy wrote:
sleap wrote:
zworqy wrote:
sleap wrote:what u mean by "vertices with polygons"?
should have been "both vertices and polygons"

sorry.
oh :) no problem man!
so highlighting vertices and showing polygons?
well.. that would work for sure.. just click the "show polygon" and "highlight vertices" in the "view"-options.

at least i think thats what you meant.. 8O :wink:
Damn wrong again. silly me. I meant "vertices WITHOUT polygons", as in I couldn't replicate your problem.
hehe alright. well, thats not possible to set in the options.
i think i have some viruses on my hd.. may that be the cause.
pretty sure it would work after format c:\ ...but i dont want to -> missing space :/
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English readme?

And could the readme.txt be included to zip/exe which is called ale21.zip or exe. Well at least I'm going to make it that way.
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Abula wrote:English readme?

And could the readme.txt be included to zip/exe which is called ale21.zip or exe. Well at least I'm going to make it that way.
http://www.zworqy.com/elmaguide/ale.html
This is kinda english readme. Unofficial though.
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Abula wrote:English readme?

And could the readme.txt be included to zip/exe which is called ale21.zip or exe. Well at least I'm going to make it that way.
May be I'll find time and do this..
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I hope to see english readme one day, preferrably soon. I'm just getting used to it and so far seems very nice. Only thing I dislike is the fact that elma has to be restarted every time I want to try a same level after changes, because elma caches the level.
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If you open the in-game editor elma updates the level cach so you wont have to restart elma. And some kind of english read-me exists on zworqy's site
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dz wrote:I hope to see english readme one day, preferrably soon. I'm just getting used to it and so far seems very nice. Only thing I dislike is the fact that elma has to be restarted every time I want to try a same level after changes, because elma caches the level.
Ok, if YOU asked me, I'll do it after my exams :)
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Juski wrote:If you open the in-game editor elma updates the level cach so you wont have to restart elma. And some kind of english read-me exists on zworqy's site
as far as i remember you can also just start up another external level and then go back to the one you are making.
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No, not in ALE. You have to quit elma completely and enter again i think
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No wezz, you just have to open the in-game editor and then the level cache is updated.
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Very nice!
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