Re: [Adonthell-devel] dlgedit, charedit, questedit

[Kai Sterker]

Am Montag, 12.01.04 um 19:46 Uhr schrieb Andrew Michael Phillips:

> Thanks. I'll grab and install dlgedit on one of my boxen at some point.
> Once I begin writing dialog (as I intend to do), where should I begin? 
> AT
> the beginning? With a specific character I like, or someplace else? 
> Does
> it really even matter?

Doesn't matter that much, I think. If we did start at the beginning, we 
could more easily test what we have, but OTOH, serious testing will 
have to wait until nearly everything is complete anyway.

So you're free to pick the characters and events you like most 
(although for consistency, all dialogue of a character should be 
written by the same author).


> Will charedit be re-written from scratch? I haven't looked at it yet, 
> so I
> don't know what has been implemented or what still needs doing.

Probably not from scratch, but now that I have thought about it, I will 
certainly change some things and add others as they are needed. Right 
now, you mainly can assign a character's initial attributes and 
dialogue, but no items, gfx, schedules and such.

[Technical note: instead of letting mergechars directly create the 
binary character.data file, it could fill in a premade python template 
with the values assigned in charedit. Then we can use the resulting 
script to initialize the game the way we did with WE, except that no 
code needs to be handwritten. That way, mergechars needs not know 
anything about the binary character.data format, and when character 
implementation changes, only the template needs to be updated. 
mergechars will work unchanged. We might even have different templates 
for different types of characters. Think of monsters and such ...]

Kai