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[Toady One]

I can only assume from the responses that the new version is stable enough for me to move on.

So this is the plan:

First I'm going to set up some preliminaries related to the editors -- for instance, I'm going to make a procedure that, say, turns human females into human males (FTM!), so that I can save on space storing the two different genders.  These transformations will be great for making things like hooved mammals (a "feet to hooves" transformation could be used -- although I guess a hoof is more like a glueing together of the toes).  I'm also going to add to the creature descriptions -- in particular, I'm going to try to make a summary that condenses the current lengthy text.

Then I'm going to make editors:
Material editor
Creature Form (quadruped, etc.) editor
Motif (mammal, etc.) editor
Species editor

There will also be a model editor for drawing up the creature pieces and so on, but I'm not sure how presentable that one will be at first.  My first priority here is just to get the models drawn properly, so that humans look right.

Then I'm going to produce a few new motifs (like reptiles and insects), as well a number of stock creatures (most notably humans).

After all of this, I'll set up some world parameters for the definition files.  That way you can import your own stock creatures, and set up what sorts of creatures you want to have, and so on, as well as whatever else I decide to put in now.

Finally, I'll do some items from the clean up list, which is becoming bloated again.

It's a lot of work -- fortunately, I think the editors will be the last truely tedious programming task for a while.  Looking over The Plan, it looks like we'll finally be getting back to the meat of the game.

I can't really give a good release date for the next version.  It will take a while.  It's May 5th now...  maybe I'll be done in early June.  It depends on school and a lot of other things.  Maybe I'll be done sooner, maybe later.  Hopefully before July... putting the stock creature editor in this release has really made it an enormous one.  It will take time.

[spelguru]

Does this mean that u can create your own creatures? If so, I will create a 12 legged, 3 headed, 4 handed and 2 winged horse with claws and teeth!!!

[Toady One]

Yes -- you'll be able to make... that.  It won't be able to fly though, not for a while

Incidentally, there's a Little Tweak Version up -- Alanor found another crash bug.  It's a little hard to hit the bug, so it wasn't a big deal, but for safety people might want to upgrade -- you can copy your save folders over if you want.  They should be compatible.

[spelguru]

Do you think that they´re main food should be kobolds or humans? Maybe add a scorpion stinger or two... When the gravity patch and the food patch comes out, they will rule... Just feel sad for the PC that runs into them   .

[Toady One]

I think grab-tears in the wrestling release will also enhance them (bite onto an arm, shake until it comes off).  What is it with you Odin people and your many legged horses?  I have a friend that has me watch Bergman movies all the time.  I have a window into the Swedish mind.

[spelguru]

It is "Oden" and the horse (Sleipner) was eight legged, not twelve. It also only had 1 head and no claws or wings! But grabtear can get even cooler: Left head grabs neck, middle head grabs the torso and the right head grabs a leg or a foot. Then... *TEAR*. Then you have small foeshaped chunks all over the place  

[Toady One]

He is also called Othinn, Wodan and Wotan, according to pantheon.org, and they spell Odin with an 'i', as do tons of other people, even from Sweden.  Tons of people spell it with an 'e' too -- perhaps they aren't Americanized  Odin probably doesn't care -- he's probably stressing more about being killed by that wolf Fenrir in the final battle.  Gotta suck knowing that...  bad way to go.

Of the Seven Labors (yes, only seven) that I need to complete to finish the editor release, I have finished precisely one.  The tentative release date if everything goes COMPLETELY SMOOTHLY is June 4th, but don't write that anywhere.

[spelguru]

But... Since I am swedish and have read tons of mythology books, and they all spelled with "e" and not "i", I am right!

[Toady One]

Why mention the mythology books?  I'm told that Swedish people are rarely wrong.

[spelguru]

Swedish people are wrong in just as many sitoations (mispelled) as other people. Like: Should I drink another litre of Coca Cola? I, of course, made the wrong choice...
Back to my horse thingy... maybe about 20 small snake heads instead of 3 horse heads, and those heads should have teeth and not fangs. Please post any advice. I only have til the next patch plan the creation of the biggest, baddest and ugliest beast ever!!!

[ThreeToe]

Hey Toady1, where's the .GIF of your 5 1/2 Rogue Disk?  I looked in the manual and it wasn't there- did you get rid of it?  That thing was funny!

[Toady One]

I think it used to be in the credits or contact or links page...  it isn't there now.  You can still look at the manual in the old 2001 log.  I'm not sure why the disk pic disappeared.  You can still look at it in:disk pic