that post realy has me going now.
deep breath......
probably they are still laughing at your missive, don`t they teach people how to write letters in school any more?, first you tell em you have a free copy, that sounds like some smartarse with a warez version trying to justify his lack of proof of purchase, irrespective of it`s real origin.
you ramble on for ages about your hamster, family and the weather (well..not quite, but you might as well have done), and style yourself lead programmer when it`s obvious you aren`t even out of school yet (or at least I hope so for your sake).
you don`t even check your facts since if you had you would know you can use freeware tools like Zoners half life tools and editors available freely to make your BSP, it won`t cost you a penny, just some time to learn the tools.
as for what you think about the usefulness of your system specification and what bearing that has on the problem, well, if you had read through the forum you would have noticed that some system configurations do have problems, and sometimes they can be fixed by workarounds, I think anybody who can write a compiler really ought to be the judge of what information is required, not some kid making Pac-Man copies in his spare time.
just like this (intentional) post you seem immune to the idea of "tact", telling someone that A5 is better than their languages directx calls (on your pc...not mine sonny), calling it an engine (it`s a language) and referring to "their company" all the time (they work for "their company"...they don`t own it).
this post has been carefully crafted to be as unfair as your posting on this forum was, expecting replies on a bank holiday weekend from the DB team after a few hours and then slagging them off on the forum IS offensive don`t you think?, especially after a few half hearted posts, if you had waited longer then some people could have told you how to set up an editor and the programs to render your BSP maps and have them run at a reasonable speed.
The end of my rant and a message to some (not all) newbies
okay, you got the short end of the stick, a bit unfair but then so was your post, I am getting tired of people who put up this sort of stuff and pretend "lead programmers" asking how to do acceleration for their Elite beater, or how to animate sprites so they can code the ultimate Mario clone, not to mention people who refuse to post their source, but need help, obviously under the impression that everybody is out to steal the code for their "awesome" man-on-a-matrix-with-cubes-game, well get this and get it clearly, WE HAVE NO NEED TO STEAL THE CODE FROM A NEWB WHO HAS PROBLEMS DISPLAYING A TITLE SCREEN (or whatever), so to those people wanting help, just take a deep breath and post the code, you haven`t written anything awesome/steal-able in your first two weeks of writing code, not even in the first two months, not a hope!.
rant over (for now)
Mentor.
