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[DrPoo]

Hello guys, for about 3 months total i have worked on a mod of a mod for a game called WxSand, called Creaturemod. Originally by resident FSG user Jabberwock(god knows where he is now) i have made some improvements to it. The basic premise is that it is a living and breathing organism with organs. There is a variety of diseases and stuff. I made alot of new chemicals, "BDCS"(BioDegradeable Containment Solution) for bandaging, and various enzymes for namely removing BDCS and cleaning up dead things. I also added things such as surgercial fluid and syntflesh, generally improving the medical situation for the average creature.

It happended upon me that the version i use of WxSand has a bug/limit that limits the ammount of visible elements. Wich sucks alot.
The newest version of WxSand has alot of changed syntax, effectively making porting impossible. Alias, i cant continue.
I would hack the source of WxSand but the site that hosts the source is infected with a virus and the creator of WxSand, Owne Piette has apparently disappeared, last blog post, while the site was viewable, was from 2007.

I only have one alternative, make a new program that can handle the logic behind Creaturemod, but i suck at programming, and i have a horrible concentration issue with things i cant see straight out, i mean with Creaturemod i could just click reload mod in WxSand and it would have all the new elements. I would have to wait for shit to compile and the obscure crappy compiler errors would proably make it completely unbearable for me. I dunno, but if you guys could help me.

What the mod originally featured:

A living and breathing creautre
A plethora of diseases and weapons to kill and maim the creatures with
Very limited and basic tools for surgery and disease curing.
A horrible death system that was basically just turning the whole creature into a mass that decays into blood that cant harden.

What i made it feature:
Blood that Hardens, Tweaked fire, Oil from the first version of Creaturemod
A somewhat slower rotting process
More radioactives
Alot of surgercial tools
A somewhat unfinished life support system(respirators and stuff) this was where the thing choked and died.

What i wanted it to feature:
A much more realistic death and decay system
Sensory organs, Pherohormones and Reproduction
Cyborgification

What i wanted it to feature but knew wouldnt be possible in WxSand:
Moving creatures
Playing as a creature
Multiplayer
Rigid body physics

So i am asking you Bay12, my friends, help.

Link here if anybody wants to try out the mod. I replaced the default file so you dont have to find it. It unpolished and buggy and was not supposed to be released.. http://filesmelt.com/dl/CreatureSim4.rar

[ductape]

Since i think most people have no idea what FSG would stand for (I did not) or even what this game you talking about it is (its rather obscure), I went ahead and Googled it and here I provide for everyone else what your OP does not:

THE LINK: http://fallingsandgame.com/viewforum.php?f=8

[DrPoo]

Sorry im a horrible poster.

[Chattox]

Man, FSG, I remember those forums. Do you remember the alchemy mod for wxSand, by Luod0153? That was me

EDIT: Hah, just went and checked the old thread, only on page 2 after 5 years.

[DrPoo]

Man, FSG, I remember those forums. Do you remember the alchemy mod for wxSand, by Luod0153? That was me

EDIT: Hah, just went and checked the old thread, only on page 2 after 5 years.

Really? Awesome! I remember playing the fuck out of that mod!
But still, Creaturemod was my all time favorite. And now i cant make it what i truely wanted it to be. I get this bug with when i got alot of elelemtns, they wont show up in the menu, even if i set them to  be visible, i put em in groups too, its really annoying!

What would be really awesome would be a Poder Toy mod, but thats proably impossible, and i hate compilers, so no programming for me, atleast right now.

[Normandy]

Heh, I'm Normandy333 if that wasn't obvious already. You should try my wxInvaders mod, it's basically a shmup... in a sand game.

Newer versions of wxSand have the exact same syntax for elements/reactions from 4.4, so it should be able to run without any issue (although I can only confirm this for 4.5, but in theory 4.6 should be the same). The only changed syntax is for newer additions like items and custom hotcolors.

Also, I think purple's version of wxSand (i.e. 4.6) may have removed the element limit (I forget if that's actually true).

Addendum:
The last version I actually played/modded was 4.5, so I'm not sure exactly what changes 4.6 has.

[DrPoo]

Heh, I'm Normandy333 if that wasn't obvious already. You should try my wxInvaders mod, it's basically a shmup... in a sand game.

Newer versions of wxSand have the exact same syntax for elements/reactions from 4.4, so it should be able to run without any issue (although I can only confirm this for 4.5, but in theory 4.6 should be the same). The only changed syntax is for newer additions like items and custom hotcolors.

Also, I think purple's version of wxSand (i.e. 4.6) may have removed the element limit (I forget if that's actually true).

Addendum:
The last version I actually played/modded was 4.5, so I'm not sure exactly what changes 4.6 has.

A new conductivity value in the element definitions, it would require all the elements to be redefined, wich would be horribly annoying.
My best guess is making Creaturemod an actual program.

[Normandy]

From what I understand it's not a new value, it's just changing the way that conductivity works (which was always a property of elements) to something more sensible. The only thing that needs to be redone is tweaking of heat-generating and heat-sensitive elements.