Why do people still use XWE?

[Marinelol]

So xwe is automatically better, right? Not considering that slade is a better product overall and that it's still a work in progress.

I don't know but isn't every modder able to find his BEST tools for the job, if someone likes XWE its his opinion anyway (including me), if you are sure Slade 3 is better just advice people to use it??

[sirjuddington]

XWE has crashed 7 times on me and Slade 3 crashed 6 times!
Only difference, I had XWE for 6 months and slade for 3 weeks.

...and you haven't reported any of those crashes.

Either way, if you were using 3.0.0, try 3.0.1 (released recently), it fixed a lot of crash bugs.

[skib]

XWE has crashed 7 times on me and Slade 3 crashed 6 times!
Only difference, I had XWE for 6 months and slade for 3 weeks.

...and you haven't reported any of those crashes.

Either way, if you were using 3.0.0, try 3.0.1 (released recently), it fixed a lot of crash bugs.

They were before I got here.
SLADE 3.0.1, I'm sooo getting it!

[Dynamo]

SLADE 3 is way better than XWE in every way. I assume people still use XWE because they're used to it. But data wise, even SLumpED surpasses XWE by far, minus for the support for other games, something SLADE 3 has anyway.

[skib]

SLADE 3 is way better than XWE in every way. I assume people still use XWE because they're used to it. But data wise, even SLumpED surpasses XWE by far, minus for the support for other games, something SLADE 3 has anyway.

What other games do Slade support?
Hw would I make a HeXen 2 mod?

[Gez]

SLADE3 does not support other games. It supports some formats from other games. So typically you can view resources but you can't convert stuff to the formats they use. It's a Doom editor, you cannot use it to mod Hexen II or Wolfenstein 3D or whatever else.

[amv2k9]

And while we're asking "Why do people still use XWE?", it'd probably be a good thing if somebody updated Realm667's Tutorials section, because that recommends usage of XWE.

[Gez]

Good point.

[Kappes Buur]

While I use Slade for most of my editing, it still leaves a lot to be desired in the texture importing department.
Not from another pwad but from a file folder, where XWE is still without equal.

So yes, XWE is still needed.

[sirjuddington]

How does XWE do it better?

[Kappes Buur]

How does XWE do it better?

Your question caused me to look again into this matter of importing images.

As it turns out, I had relied too much on Slade's file browser and the 'Entry --> Import' function. This time I opened a Windows Explorer window,



highlighted all the images I wanted and simply dragged them across to Slade. Since those images were not PNGs, I highlighted all the imported images and used 'Convert Gfx To ...' and selected PNG 32 bit. Worked like a charm.

Therefore, I retract my former statement ' ...where XWE is still without equal. So yes, XWE is still needed..' and revise it to 'Use XWE if so desired.'

[Gez]

Even before drag'n'drop was added (it's new to 3.0.1), you could have used "Archive -> Import Files" to do a mass import.

[Kappes Buur]

Which I wasn't aware of, as I relied on the Entry --> Import. And that seems to be useless.

While http://slade-editor.wikia.com/wiki/How_ ... t_textures is quite helpful, it was not mentioned in there either.

[Xaser]

Even before drag'n'drop was added (it's new to 3.0.1), you could have used "Archive -> Import Files" to do a mass import.

I do find it strange that the option's buried in a menu instead of being on the toolbar like it was in SLumpEd. I use it much more often than doing a replace-import.

[Enjay]

To answer the titular question, I like it. It does what I want it to do. I don't care that it hasn't been updated for "nearly half a decade". It did what I wanted half a decade ago and it still does it. I can't say that it has ever let me down. I'm sure that the alternatives are good too. I simply don't have a compelling reason to change. I really should get around to trying Slade properly. I'll probably end up using both XWE and Slade.