DLE XP description
DLE-XP is latest level editor for Descent 1 and 2.

DLE-XP is latest level editor for Descent 1 and 2. It is based on Bryan Aamots famous DMB2 v2.7, but has a totally revamped user interface and a contains a slew of bug fixes and enhancements. It is the only one with backward compatibilty capabilities.

What's New in This Release:

· Generally, DLE-XP is much, much faster than DMB2 v2.6 due to the port to MS Visual C++ 6
· Lighting completely fixed
- static illumination works to specified render depth
- delta light calculation only computes light deltas for the current source's children (-> overflows much less likely; DMB2: compute for all lights up to the current due to a bug)
- DLE-XP will automatically reduce light render depth as far as required to take care of overflows in delta light calculation
- delta light calculation only computes light deltas for blinking lights, blastable lights and lights on walls that are trigger targets (DMB2: all 2ndary light textures)
- flickering lights can be applied to any light texture (1st or 2nd; DMB2: only to 2nd light texture)
- all light textures or only lava can be prevented from receiving delta light values
- adjustable render depth for static and flickering lights (i.e. how many cubes away from the source light does a light still affect brightness
· Dynamic player/robot brightness calculation depending on cube brightness
· Vertex lighting and Colored lights. Together with D2X-XL these will make up for naturally looking color and light blending.
· Flickering light settings will not be destroyed by the light tool on certain occasions any more
· DLE-XP can show animated blinking light effects (only for the light sources to check for proper light sequences, or for all affected cubes to show the global effect)