Chambers wrote:
>  my (imo) valid criticisms of the editor, plus seeing several threads 

That's one of the things that killed me about the thief editor. I didn't 
work with it much, but it certainly seemed like they should have been 
able to (for example) tell you when a hole was big enough to move 
through without getting stuck, or a gap small enough to jump over. 
Otherwise, it was all trial and error.

I mean, at a minimum, have the stuff you stick to the walls and floors 
be able to "snap" to the surface/grid/whatever. The levels are full of 
lights that float an inch from the wall, book shelves facing the wall, 
fire in the fireplace not touching the floor, etc.  As well as them 
having issued a patch or two that just made it possible to take routes 
where they'd made the window too small to climb through by 3 pixels or so.

There's even a garish default texture so you can walk around and find 
the surfaces you forgot to texture. Rather than, you know, a function in 
the editor that points the camera at any untextured surfaces.

How could it *not* save time to automate such stuff?

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