I'm doing my levels with WED, too, and I like the block-approach.
What I really hate is the low speed of the view ports, too, and especially selecting something (blocks, surfaces, entities) is a pain.

My WED crashes regularly if I have the latest view drivers loaded. It just closes or freezes, giving me no chance to save. So I have to choose the oldest, worst drivers from the list in GXL Properties. They actually run a bit faster than the newer ones (presumably because they're "doing" less), but the 3D view looks terrible--and drastically different from the compiled level, which makes trying to select textures that work well together very difficult, as in the compiled level often the brightness or colors are all wrong whereas it looked fine in the WED 3D view.

I can mostly live with WED... but selecting blocks and entities is really really really annoying as soon as your levels get bigger.

I hate it to work with WED it's to slow! when i move something i always see ligth and darkblue ....... boxes! I hope the new WED will be better!
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Nobody complaint about messed up texture alignments. Is this resolved?
I quit using WED with blocks years ago because of this. I only use it for certain projects to place models. That's it.

You can change the thing with the blue boxes in WED preferences. Also, you can choose different video drivers and settings to increase the performance

Rondidon, the screenshots of your game look pretty good.
Did you do all that level building in WED?
Does this mean that texture alignment is reliable?

Yes, the levels are 100% designed in WED (geometry, texturing etc.) and MED for terrain and models (file conversions, model texturing). I import most models as level geometry in WED.
Texturing is no problem in WED. It used to be in A6, but in latest A7 it´s okay.

Open your settings. Set the rendering method to a different DLL. Problem solved.


Change your key bindings! I set mine up to be a standard WASD control scheme. You should do the same.


You're right, snapping really is a problem. I find myself constantly repositioning unruly vertices and edges all the time. That's the only thing that really bothers me about WED, though.


You can see well enough to do what you need to do, though. This isn't really much of a problem.


Now that's a real problem that I never thought about. Still, I've never had to use that list, so it doesn't bother me too much.

"You cannot easily manipulate items in the left-side list"

You can select multiple items when you hold "strg", like in any other app.
Then you can set flags for all objects for example.

For duplication offset: You can set it in the preferences to 0.

Sorry, but for 50% of the complains you get a RTFM from me.
But at the bottom line you´re right, there are some annoying little... surprises in WED.

I´m crying out loud on a regulary basis, too.