12-28-2007, 08:47 PM
You didn't miss anything joeb!
But I was going to make this introduction-post with the
What is going on ... ? Two seperate things! But that hopefully will lead to one target: the end of files-swopping. I explain. More clearly now.
1° When I did send an email to Vern a few days ago, with an idea about a better handling of music- and screenfiles, he replied me that already in MM 1.0.8 he added a feature to make things even more easy than what I was asking for right now. I am to blame that I missed that issue, but the good news is that we, admins, don't need any help of all the seperate designers to make the needed updates. The update of Immortal Ruins will show how it is possible, after downloading a mansion, to drag ONLY ONCE the mansionfile and the datafolder to the Custom Mansions folder. And afterwards no more files-swopping. So far the story about screens and music.
2° This second part is about graphics, sprites and sounds. And a coincidence! A few weeks ago aquaMat reported me that, since version 1.0.9, his Discotheque of Doom couldn't be played any more in a proper way. He sent me images of indeed awful looking rooms with white areas and other odd stuff. He assumed that it had to do with the new feature of
My next steps are:
1° creating updates for IR and DoD;
2° sending emails to Wingy and joeb.
But I was going to make this introduction-post with the
good news, followed by the updates of IR and DoD. And emails to Wingy and you. Alas, this afternoon something came in between and the post stayed isolated and was probably confusing.
What is going on ... ? Two seperate things! But that hopefully will lead to one target: the end of files-swopping. I explain. More clearly now.
1° When I did send an email to Vern a few days ago, with an idea about a better handling of music- and screenfiles, he replied me that already in MM 1.0.8 he added a feature to make things even more easy than what I was asking for right now. I am to blame that I missed that issue, but the good news is that we, admins, don't need any help of all the seperate designers to make the needed updates. The update of Immortal Ruins will show how it is possible, after downloading a mansion, to drag ONLY ONCE the mansionfile and the datafolder to the Custom Mansions folder. And afterwards no more files-swopping. So far the story about screens and music.
2° This second part is about graphics, sprites and sounds. And a coincidence! A few weeks ago aquaMat reported me that, since version 1.0.9, his Discotheque of Doom couldn't be played any more in a proper way. He sent me images of indeed awful looking rooms with white areas and other odd stuff. He assumed that it had to do with the new feature of
built-ingraphics and sprites that are possible since 1.0.9, while DoD was build before. He very surprisingly came with an update where all his graphics and sprites were built-in. Thus, since the last update od DoD (version 2.1) the graphics- and sprites-files don't need to be swopped any more. I know he put a lot of time and energy in it, but I am sure he will share his experiences with the 2 other designers, Wingy and joeb, who worked with customized graphics, sprites and sounds as well. Now, and here comes the coincidence, if Wingy and joeb, because of problems with some of their mansions (since 1.0.9) or not, would be so nice to built-in their graphics, sprites (and hopefully also sounds) as well, than files-swopping will be the Paleolithicum!!
My next steps are:
1° creating updates for IR and DoD;
2° sending emails to Wingy and joeb.