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: As I have posted, I am learning the fine art of DMOD creation. From what I read, I downloaded WinDinkEdit to make my DMOD. I threw a couple stones on tile 400 as well as modified the intro screen. I was giddy when I ran it. There was my Dink walking around stones I placed there! Anyway. 
WinDinkEdit doesn't seem to be very user-intuitive. I am NOT the kind of person that usually needs a manual to figure out a piece of software, but this one is killing me. For instance, I'll hit the 'e' key to get into sprite mode. I'll pick a kind of sprite, say a stone, and I get a screen with several to choose from. When I go back to the sprite mode, I get the stones again and can't get back to the main sprite selection screen. I have hit 'Ctrl+number key' and got different background tile selections, but the other sprites such as fences and people don't want to reappear. Is there a manual on WinDinkEdit? Better question: is WDE the best editor to even be using? Is there a better one? What's it called? Where is it? Many TIA! Oh, I have a preliminary name of Life As Dink Smallwood (LADS) for this DMOD. Thanx!
Yeah, WinDinkedit has a pretty fscked up user interface... one of these days I'm going to simplify it and such. Gary and WC didn't care to make it user-friendly.
Check out the readme.txt that is included with it... it should tell you how to do pretty much everything you need to.
As for other editors... you could use the original DinkEdit, which has a better interface than WDE in some ways (it tells you on the bottom of the screen some of the useful keys), and worse in others.
Good luck with your D-Mod.
WinDinkEdit doesn't seem to be very user-intuitive. I am NOT the kind of person that usually needs a manual to figure out a piece of software, but this one is killing me. For instance, I'll hit the 'e' key to get into sprite mode. I'll pick a kind of sprite, say a stone, and I get a screen with several to choose from. When I go back to the sprite mode, I get the stones again and can't get back to the main sprite selection screen. I have hit 'Ctrl+number key' and got different background tile selections, but the other sprites such as fences and people don't want to reappear. Is there a manual on WinDinkEdit? Better question: is WDE the best editor to even be using? Is there a better one? What's it called? Where is it? Many TIA! Oh, I have a preliminary name of Life As Dink Smallwood (LADS) for this DMOD. Thanx!Yeah, WinDinkedit has a pretty fscked up user interface... one of these days I'm going to simplify it and such. Gary and WC didn't care to make it user-friendly.
Check out the readme.txt that is included with it... it should tell you how to do pretty much everything you need to.
As for other editors... you could use the original DinkEdit, which has a better interface than WDE in some ways (it tells you on the bottom of the screen some of the useful keys), and worse in others.
Good luck with your D-Mod.
