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[Charon]

Mac fans can be such jerks. Arrogant, stinking jerks.

[Aile~♥]

That wasn't nice Charon.

[Salanewt]

Yeah... Not all Mac fans are jerks about it, just all of the people who we do not know!

*Gets blowtorched by unknown Mac fans*

Have a nice day.

[Charon]

Well, a lot are (and I have to deal with them on a day to day basis), and its unfortunate to those who are not so rude about it.

Sorry Jamie XP I was never a fan of macs myself... but it really wasn't aimed at you...

[Aile~♥]

I find a lot of Windows people have a tendency to be completely clueless. Linux is better than Windows, and possibly better than Mac too, but I don't know, cause I haven't tried Linux.

So far, I only have experience with one Linux person (that would be you, Charon) and that one person seems fairly nice.

I like that the new forums don't log me out all the time. (Unlike what happens to Role.)

And the Mac's back button restores whatever you typed in! XD

[Charon]

Let's get back on topic now - this is about Atrius's editor and its features, not operating systems.

[Salanewt]

Edit: I just saw Charon's post, and have removed mine (mainly because it was so tiny to be honest, I doubt that anyone could read it perfectly without changing the size).

Anyway, I will probably start a new topic or two in the discussions forum about Windows vs. Mac (from what I have heard, these two are no match for Linux), but we can add a 'vs. Linux' to the end of the title too.


Okay, for the Editor... OH COOL! NEW EMOTES! Take it away Sentinel...

Thank you Salanewt. Anyway, when can we expect script editing Atrius? I am sure that it will not be in version 0.3, or even 0.4, but only you can tell us for sure.

Have a nice day.

Edit: Star Magician is... ?

[Drick]

I'd like to add my opinion to the OS argument.

EVERYTHING SUCKS. Windows just happens to run all the programs I desire.

Good day.
Okay sala made a thread for that and i moved my statement.





Oh right, to stay on topic (moderatly), everything in the editor looks to be shaping up well, can't wait for graphics editing, no matter how long it takes.

[Atrius (He/They)]

Anyway, when can we expect script editing Atrius? I am sure that it will not be in version 0.3, or even 0.4, but only you can tell us for sure.

Not even I can.  It's gonna be a while though, I can tell you it'll be one of the most complex features of the editor to program, even after the entire thing is finished.

[Charon]

I would assume. It requires a simplified version of ASM in order to work.

But the possibilities are limitless...

Anyhow, any idea on a release date for V.03?

[Atrius (He/They)]

Simplified for the user perhaps, but that simplification complexifies things for me.

No release date yet, sorry.

[Charon]

I can imagine it would be difficult... you would have to transfer ASM routines into an understandable set of commands, but the same basic ASM commands can build very different routines, which means you'd need to discover all sorts of different "ASM routine tests" just to make sure it works... and then... it could also be that similar events that seem to have similar routines work quite differently... and all sorts of other jargon.

[Atrius (He/They)]

The more I work on the Data Browser feature, the more I come to love it.  It is without a doubt my favorite feature of the editor so far.



What is it doing here you ask?  Quite amazingly, it's scanned through a section of the games code and automatically detected pointers to data.  This means no more tedious searching for all of the data that hasn't been located yet, we just have to go through the lists and figure out what's what!  Anyone whose performed low-level hacking should be able to appreciate exactly what this means, at this rate the editor will practically do all of my hard work for me!  If only I could get it to generate compression algorithms...  It was even nice enough to match what's already been identified with a provided list, and label it.

Not only that, but while searching for all those pointers it keeps a tally of code functions it scans through.  Down the line, this could potentially be modified to track which functions use which data so we know where to target for low-level assembly code hacks.

Using this new feature, I've easily located Djinn, Summon, and several other bits of miscellaneous data.

[Sajin]

Amazing Atrius! It seems that only thing that will take must of the time now is figuring out the compression algorithms, right?

[leaf]

Excellent! I love hearing about when stuff like this works out.

[Matrim]

Woot. This should help with a lot of things.

[Atrius (He/They)]

And here's what it looks like when you check where those data pointers are used at

[Rolina]

oh, here's a question, is there anything in the Data Browser having to do with classes?

[Atrius (He/They)]

Not really, since the class data is embedded at the end of a chunk of the game's code the only way the data browser sees it is by scanning through that code.

[Rolina]

Blarg, I was hoping we could use it to get some insight as to how the class system actually works...