In Forum: Game Betas
By User: hogsy
I just can't believe how incompatible these versions used to be and one has to go through all the pain adjusting the t3ds and maps...and that is just a version separated by one month in 1997, go figure. No wonder that John Anderson quit theecand saw it as incompecm, however he later sa didn't know this was "normal" among game engine developement, but I still think it is incompetence and that he was right anyway.
Sorry to say but it is normal. Personally being someone who's been working on an engine and the tools behind it for almost two years now, almost everyday there's subtle changes being made to things like the level format which immediately makes older maps incompatible. When an engine is in development it's something you have to learn to deal with and work around. It's not incompetence and calling it so seems rather ignorant when you haven't worked under such conditions yourself before.
By User: hogsy
I just can't believe how incompatible these versions used to be and one has to go through all the pain adjusting the t3ds and maps...and that is just a version separated by one month in 1997, go figure. No wonder that John Anderson quit theecand saw it as incompecm, however he later sa didn't know this was "normal" among game engine developement, but I still think it is incompetence and that he was right anyway.
Sorry to say but it is normal. Personally being someone who's been working on an engine and the tools behind it for almost two years now, almost everyday there's subtle changes being made to things like the level format which immediately makes older maps incompatible. When an engine is in development it's something you have to learn to deal with and work around. It's not incompetence and calling it so seems rather ignorant when you haven't worked under such conditions yourself before.