Creatures Editor Options

[aigleborgne]

Well, this is my new project!
This editor will allow you to easily edit creatures and generate a set of files.
These files will be processed by WEIDU macro.

It could be seen like Near Infinity Editor for Creatures. Except it will patch files, which is far better!

Example of use: you want to add "Invisibility Detection" effect for a set of creatures that should see invisibility?
You will be able to select these creatures from a list (with a checkbox system) and then click add effect. Select Invisiblity Detection and click Add.

It will be possible to change most of the things doable with Near Infinity. I will exclude some of them because I don't need them, but it will be possible to include them on a later stage.

Additionally, I will add a support for creating complex spellbooks based on schools selection or other factors.
This could be something like building a set of generic spellbooks, each one identified by a name. Then adding one to a creature and freely change some spells after this.

There will be a support for creating complex baf script.
Something like affecting a long list of baf files for one script slot. Each baf will have its own order number. When generating files, final baf name (previously set) will be created by adding together all baf.

I will release this editor if some are interested in it.
It will be done in PHP with framework CakePHP and MySQL database.

I will code this while testing it with Enhanced Creatures.
My purpose is to code Enhanced Creatures in a better developping station. So I will add features when I will need them.

I guess that in end december, I will have released both of them.

[aigleborgne]

New migration : Visual Studio 2010, Framework 4.0, and SQL Server 2008 Express.
This will be the final environnement for this application.

Why did I move to framework 4.0 ?
First, you have to understand that this application is a self-formation as I want to become an expert in .NET.
I am very interesting in the new Entity Framework 4.0 and I can already say that it makes devleopement a lot faster and lighter.
Globally, it divides my actual code size by 3. And there are a lot more advantages with this new framework.

Of course, I need to migrate everything and it takes some time.
Database is ready on SQL Server (some changes were needed)
It will take about 1 month to finish migration.

This is quite long but I need to learn framework during the process.

In this end, I guess I will release this editor during winter, probably in December.

This is quite far, but I'm alone and I can work on it one hour per day at best.

This post has been edited by aigleborgne: Apr 19 2010, 08:46 PM