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DLE is latest level editor for Descent 1 and 2. It is based on the official Descent 1 and 2 level editor DMB2 v2.7 by Bryan Aamot and offers a slew of bug fixes and enhancements:

• Tidy and fast MFC based interface with many comfortable enhancements:
• Four different UI layouts (vertical, vertical (space saving), horizontal, floating dialogs)
• Improved element selection UI
• Quick picking of textured faces
• Quick tag all connected sides in a plane or with the same texture
• Increased segment (20.000), wall (2047), trigger (255) and object (2000) counts
• Improved lighting:
• Better algorithms offering more realism, more lights, and better light animation
• Colored lighting
• Change the light emission of any texture (fully compatible to all Descent 1 and 2 versions)
• Variable light render depth
• High resolution 32 bit textures (TGA)
• Powerful texture alignment functions
• Automatic texture alignment correction
• Effect objects (particles, lightning, sound, way points)
• New segment types (water, lava, repair center, team, blocked)
• Sky boxes
• Segment splitting functions
• Triangular segment sides
• New trigger types (object triggers, master triggers, timed triggers, in-level teleports, speed boosts, cameras)
• Mod support:
• Per mission and per level custom textures
• Per mission and per level custom models (ASE, OOF)
• Fast OpenGL based renderer displaying:
• 3D models
• Powerup sprites
• Effect icons
• Transparency
• Colored lighting
• Real-time light animation
• High resolution textures
• 1st and 3rd person views
• Powerful diagnosis and repair function allowing to select and display dysfunctional level elements
• Improved tunnel generator allowing to create corridors with multiple base sides

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