Editor History

The Beginning

The editor was discovered by Stiletto of the Island Sanctuary in early December of 1997. After that the Island Sanctuary became the centre of map editing (being the only editing site it wasn't hard :-). The understanding of the english file and everything to do with editing was quite basic at first, but through the contributions of people in the forum more and more was found out about it and what it could do - pictures, links and more.

Why Were We Not Told About It?

There could be many reasons Titanic and Activision decided not to tell people about the editor but the most probable is that there was not time to polish the entire editing process to an acceptable standard (eg. you still have to make the english files manually) and so it was just left out as the deadline loomed nearer. The other less possible reason is that the editor was only meant to be for the makers of the game and just left in because there was not enough time to remove the editing part of the program cleanly - so they decided to just put in a 'flag' to turn it off/on.

The Future

Do not think you have come late in the stages of development of the editor (though you might have missed the frantic first few weeks), because there is still a lot to be discovered. Go to the forum to be on the front line of discovery.

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