With all the plugins floating around the net, it's hard
to keep track of them all. It's also hard to figure out which are worth the
download and testing time. Well, help is here..
Beam Me In JED
This plugin allows you to import one level into another. However, it seems to
me it'd be more effective to simply multiselect the sectors you want, copy
them, and paste them into your level.. Besides, don't we want new,
innovative architecture in every new level?
Grade - C - Not very useful.
DXF Import
DXF is a file format supported my many professional 3d
modeling programs. This plugin makes it possible to import .dxf files made
in another program into JED as sectors. Not very useful for level creation,
but this opens alot of possibilities for great 3dos.
Grade - A - A great tool for people with access to professional
modeling programs
FlagMan
This helps in setting surface flags on a large amount
of surfaces. Simple choose a texture and some surface flags and hit a
button.. All the surfaces with that texture will have the specified surface
flags applied to it. Useful for skies or special sounding floor
(metal/dirt/shallow water/etc)
Grade - B - Limited in it's use, as it only affects surface flags,
but a great time saver.
Free Sector
A plugin I personally swear by, this allows you to make your sectors in a
separate program. The special thing about it is you don't have to do any
cleaving, making an octagon sector becomes as easy as drawing an octagon
in a paint program. It's other very cool feature is the ability to have it
create polygonal sectors for you, choose from a triangle to a 24 sided
polygon.
Grade - A - Makes creating interesting sectors much easier.
Goal !
Simply put, the greatest plugin made. Creating goals
for single player levels is now ridiculously simplistic thanks to this
plugin - no more excuses people, all sp levels MUST have goals from now on
:)
Grade - A - Does some very dirty work that is normally above the
abilities of alot of editors.
JED Vec Calc
Makes vector calculation a breeze. Simply place two
things, feed Vec Calc their "thing numbers" and it'll calculate the vector
between them.
Grade - B - Great for when you have to do messy vectors.
JK Tree
This is the plugin that came with JED. It organizes
your project directory, putting 3dos in a 3do directory, cogs in a cog
directory, etc.. A nice tool when your project directory is getting filled
up with files.
Grade - B - Not incredibly useful, but a helpful little plugin every
once and awhile.
Light Fantastic
Lets you create some really nice lighting very easily.
Just choose a sector, or multiple sectors and run the plugin. You then have
the option of Bright, shade, or dark lighting. From there it judges the
size of the sector(s), place a light in the middle and automatically sets
the intensity and range depending on sector size. You can also choose to
place a light in the middle of all the multiselected sectors, or one in the
middle of each.
Grade - B - Makes lighting a cinch, but makes a pretty big
assumption that you will always want a light in the dead center of a
sector or group of sectors.
Mini Plugins
This comes with 3 plugins.. "Mat Replace" replaces
every instance of a specified texture with another specified texture. "CMP
Fix" sets all sector CMP's to the master CMP. "StatMan" is more of a
novelty then anything else, it displays a sector, surface, thing, and light
count for your level with the option of counting how many times a specific
template is used.
Grade - C - Mat replace and CMP fix are limited in their use, and
CMP Fix isn't any more convenient then multiselecting all sectors and
changing their CMP.
Mr. Sector
Creates 5 different polyhedra-shaped sectors
automatically. Some of the polyhedras are helpful in making domes, and
obviously, spheres.
Grade - C - 3 of the included polyhedras are easily made without the
plugin, and the other 2 are limited in their use.
Ripper
Inserts a center vertex on a specified surface and
cleaves lines from the center vertex to every other vertex on the surface.
Very useful when creating domes or realistic terrain.
Grade - B - Eliminates alot of tedious cleaving and helps find the
center of irregularly shaped surfaces.
Shatter
Lets you create breakable glass on specified adjoins
easily. The downside however is that it applies 00breakingglass.cog to the
adjoin.. Fine for SP, but it will absolutely devour bandwidth in multiplayer
levels.
Grade - B - Needs an option to apply the multiplayer breaking glass
cog, but for SP uses it's helpful.
Sky Flagger
Like FlagMan, but it only allows for the use of one
flag, "sky".
Grade - C - More customizability is a must, for now it's
overshadowed by FlagMan.
Stair Crazy
Fantastic plugin that creates stairs for you. All you
have to do is select a sloping surface, and tell the plugin the stair
height and it does the rest.
Grade - A - Creates stairs in seconds, saving you from a lot of
tedious cleaving.
Water Works
Select one surface of an adjoin and run the plugin.
It changes the adjoin GEO and applies a texture to it. Also changes the
sector flags of the selected surface's sector to underwater, adds tint,
and adds a water sound.
Grade - B - Does alot of grunt work for you so you can pay attention
to more important things.