[Kazan]

Ok, I suddenly had an idea earlier

It would be called FreeSpace Developer Studio
It would be a full modding utility kit features would include:

Updated and Integrated POF Constructor Suite, VP Constructor Suite,  and the Mission Background Utility

It would also contain a syntax-hiliting table editor, a tree-view off the fs2 directory, integrated FS2 launcher,  NSIS installer generator (full installs, packages)

[Maybe even eventually find a way to integrate FRED right into it]

Who likes this idea?


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This would require me to put my SCP work on the back burner obviously, and my time is limited as I am in a $$$$$ fix off massive proportions... finding it hard to get a job - and I _MUST_ have a job

[StratComm]

It gets my vote

[Sandwich]

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Sandwich

[Kazan]

Awesome.. atleast people like the idea



*sighs* now i gotta get a job so i can afford to spend the time on it

some of this code is going to get fundamental rewrites (bsp handler, cob handler) as they are very hackish

[Drew]

but id hate to see it get in the way of finding a job.

[Hippo]

[Bobboau]

cool

but I still want my auto-facet PCS code first, I think I figured out how to explain implementing it, when you go about avereging the normals discard any normals that are of a larger angle than the facet angle (relitive to the normal of the normal of the poly that the vert is a member of), maybe I should try getting the current PCS CVS, what was the login, server, ect info again?

[Kazan]

bobboau: that makes sense

[Bobboau]

realy? or are you being sarcastic?
heh, it only took me three months to make that into a coherant statement

[Flipside]

Sounds great to me!

[Nuclear1]

Me likes the idea. Go for it.

[Kazan]

Originally posted by Bobboau
realy? or are you being sarcastic?
heh, it only took me three months to make that into a coherant statement

no it actually makes sense

[Kazan]

please keep messages about this in this thread - and if you have example programs for ideas please post jpegs

[Bobboau]

maybe somethng with a MSVC style file viewer to the left that if you double click on any of them an apropriate editor pops up,
it would list all files visable to FS includeing files in VPs and suport the editing of files within VPs, it could be structured in one of those tree thingys were if it is in a directory or a VP it gets a diferent icon for it's parent node, you could drag and drop files from a directory into a vp or vice versa, useing the right mouse button would give you the option of moveing or copying, left would just move (or copy, maybe have this setable from an options menu), you'd need to suport all file types includeing graphics (pcx, tga, anyhting else FSO may suport in the future), mission/campain files, ANIs, TBLs, and POFs

[Setekh]

<--- Is already too poorly educated to carry on in the rest of this conversation.

.:

[magatsu1]

anything that lets people get into the code sounds good to me.
so

[FreeTerran]

yeah good idea

[kasperl]

cool.

a couple of idea's though:

1) put it somewhere near the FSO code, so that the SCP team can help you out.
2) try and use the file loaders from FSO, so that there are no differences in file handling.
3) good luck, and put the job in the first place!

[Kazan]

there is no way in hell im using V-code

but just because I write my own functions doesn't mean there will be differences in file handling - i didn't use V code for my POF loader - and yet it's _more_ _Stable_ than their pof loader [albeit i didn't code in old version support, which I think im going to add]