eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2708
Registered: 02-05-2003
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It's possible to create discontinuous holds in the editor, by creating rooms, then deleting them. This isn't so big a problem - the holds won't work well, but that's the builder's problem; I don't think that the editor necessarily needs to hold anyone's hand in this regard.

Where the problem lies is if you create a gap of more than three rooms north/south or four east/west. Because you can only navigate the room map by selecting new rooms and centering them, such a gap means that the disconnected room is "lost" - unless for some reason you create a new room in that direction, there's no way to ever get to the lost room in the editor.

Scroll bars in the editor map could solve this problem (and make navigating big levels easier anyway - it's not very intuitive that if two rooms are too far apart, I need to click on an intermediate room to navigate between them.



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