CShop Question

#1 Well heavily moderated but yet not moderated. Lemme explain. When you're new, your posts have to get approved. So in this way it's somewhat of a heavily moderated forum. Eventually you'll be able to post and bypass the moderator but I'm not sure which type of heuristic they're using to determine this (more than likely someone saying "ok, he/she's legit).

As far as me saying not moderated...my posts never get approved. They tend to just leave em be. I haven't checked the forum in the last couple of days since my last post but I never saw my posts see the light of day. Pretty much ruins the "dang, I have a problem and I know someone knows the answer. I'll post a question and get a response in 5 minutes....<10 weeks later> Nope, not yet".

Wish they would do something about that.

#2 Ok, I figured that was the case. It would be nice if give you a message to that effect when you try to post :)

#3 Rod... try the Dark BASIC site... www.thegamecreators.com

then go to the World Building menu at the top... and select Cartography Shop...

once there, go to the upper left and find the forum link... in the support area...


--Mike

#4 Michael: that's where I'm trying to post. Problem is they aren't showing up :)

#5 It appears that you've gotta be registered on the forum in order to post...

--Mike

#6 If you have no modeling experience is cshop so easy to use that you will be able to learn it quickly and efficiently or should I get another program. and if so what program is best for modeling newbs?

#7 Michael: I am registered :)

Jason: I'm not sure about modeling, as I'm using it for Torque interiors. As far as that goes, it's very simple to get started with. When you combine it with the Torque Pipeline, making .dif files for Torque has never been easier (for me at least). :)

There is a lack of some basic things that most other editors have, like arches, stair creators, etc., but you can make prefabs of your own and use them. There are a couple of things I really miss though: Number one is a 3D clipping brush, which I've used a lot in other editors when making a level as it gives a greater control over a shape and allows things that vertex manipulation alone doesn't.

The other thing I really miss is texture manipulation in the 3D window - unless I haven't found it yet, CShop doesn't support it. You have to click scroll buttons up and down to manipulate a texture. Yes, it works, but for me it's much more intuitive to click and drag a texture around in the 3D window to manipulate it :)

But, after the frustration that is QuArK... well, let's just say I spent a week with QuArK working on a level only to find it introduced some unfixable problem into my level because I clicked and dragged at the wrong place... in just 2 days with CShop I have my level built back to the same place as it was in QuArK, and have gone beyond that point in fact. It's much easier to use in my opinion.

#8 @Jason - If you have trouble figuring out how to use Cartshop i'll eat my hat. =) Really go grab the demo and you'll see how easy it is to build things.

@Rodney - I'm glad you like Cartshop+Pipeline. Cartshop5 has alot of those missing things addressed. It's looking extremely good at this stage and will only get better. If you're interested in checking it out see the lead news item on Leadwerks.

#9 Is there any cshop tutorials around?

#10 Jason go to Tom's website, www.sickheadgames.com there he has a video where he makes a simple room with portal and some interior lights. It will help you get the basics down. There is also a arch tutorial on this website. Check your forum options under the art section is a CShop area here where you can get help from fellow CShop users.

#11 Thanks david will do .