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lordpazuzu wrote:Great Info Lino!!

How many people do this kind of work with you? Because you model, texture, prep, export, test, :o !!!!
We are 5 Artists here, as far as i can tell ;) In a small team one has to be able to do a lot of stuff. I am the newest artist here (for ~3years) so i still have a lot to learn ;)
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Post by Litauen »

Great topic! I have 3 questions:

1. Can you describe how hacking panels work? When you press on them some lua script is activated which performs some action?

2. Any chance in the near future to get script updates to trigger the action from the md script to let's say open trade menu?

3. Is Egosoft planning to release any modding tools some day?
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Litauen wrote: 3. Is Egosoft planning to release any modding tools some day?
This is something I am also interested in.
Plugins for existing programs or whole tools to create own content, a script IDE maybe?
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Tamina wrote:
Litauen wrote: 3. Is Egosoft planning to release any modding tools some day?
This is something I am also interested in.
Plugins existing programs or whole tools to create own content, a script IDE maybe?
maybe you didn't check this, which tools exactly do you expect?

You can change the dat files, you can create your own MD scripts, etc..
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Post by lordpazuzu »

linolafett wrote:
lordpazuzu wrote:Great Info Lino!!

How many people do this kind of work with you? Because you model, texture, prep, export, test, :o !!!!
We are 5 Artists here, as far as i can tell ;) In a small team one has to be able to do a lot of stuff. I am the newest artist here (for ~3years) so i still have a lot to learn ;)
Thank you Lino for the response; You guys are doing a great job!! Congratulations!!
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Post by nemesis1982 »

@erza: A documented SDK which integrates with Visual Studio would be nice. You wouldn't need to gues and use trail and error as much ;)

Perhaps even a debugger.
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Post by linolafett »

I guess there wont be a documented SDK, thats just out of the scope for us here :(
Pipeline wise the DB is a bit in the way for asset modding, currently we do not have concrete plans for more modding tools here sadly :( This may change in the future.
I would love to see more user generated content, still surprised, what is possible with the limited tools you all have avaliable. Impressive for sure!
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Post by nemesis1982 »

Has egosoft everthought about letting the communitie develop their own tools by sharing the source code with the highest level devnet users. There are some gifted indiviuals there.
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Post by Slashman »

So is modding even more restricted than with X3? I thought the whole point of the new engine was to make modding more friendly and accessible. :gruebel:
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Slashman wrote:So is modding even more restricted than with X3? I thought the whole point of the new engine was to make modding more friendly and accessible. :gruebel:
I would say its pretty open right now! XML editor and a bit of time and you can create pretty darn awesome mods! Tools just would make the work of the modders way faster and easier to get into :)
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Post by Sam L.R. Griffiths »

@Slashman: From what I can tell the new engine is far less restrictive in terms of data/content modding. Where it gets more complex is the scripting side of things as some things are hard-coded, others are in LUA scripting domain, and then there is the Mission Director scripting domain as well.

In general, things are so different from X3 that calling it more or less restrictive is possibly down to perspective as much as anything (IMO).
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Post by ezra-r »

@linolafett Id like to congratulate you and the team in the new Sanahar freighter ;)
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Post by Aken_Bosch »

Wait wait, what is this new Sanahar thing? Let me guess, it's a wen ledom fo ograc pihs? :P
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Aken_Bosch wrote:Wait wait, what is this new Sanahar thing? Let me guess, it's a wen ledom fo ograc pihs? :P
new... model... of... cargo... ship...
(ha! So now where is the measure board to see IQ(time needed)? :D)

However more important: Sanahar freighter?

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Tamina wrote:
Aken_Bosch wrote:Wait wait, what is this new Sanahar thing? Let me guess, it's a wen ledom fo ograc pihs? :P
new... model... of... cargo... ship...
(ha! So now where is the measure board to see IQ(time needed)? :D)

However more important: Sanahar freighter?
Read Sanahar backwards too :D
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Kaldo wrote: Read Sanahar backwards too :D
Oh :oops:
thanks :D

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Post by ezra-r »

Tamina wrote:
Kaldo wrote: Read Sanahar backwards too :D
Oh :oops:
thanks :D
But there is a new sanahar freighter:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Mv-H ... sp=sharing

;D

PS: 3.0 is going to be awesome!
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Post by Jaxartes »

ezra-r wrote:
Tamina wrote:
Kaldo wrote: Read Sanahar backwards too :D
Oh :oops:
thanks :D
But there is a new sanahar freighter:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Mv-H ... sp=sharing

;D

PS: 3.0 is going to be awesome!
Where did you get the info on the new ships?
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Post by UniTrader »

Jaxartes wrote:
ezra-r wrote:
Tamina wrote:
Kaldo wrote: Read Sanahar backwards too :D
Oh :oops:
thanks :D
But there is a new sanahar freighter:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Mv-H ... sp=sharing

;D

PS: 3.0 is going to be awesome!
Where did you get the info on the new ships?
i would guess on the currently running 3.0 Beta
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Post by Aken_Bosch »

Ezra-r, I sincerely thought you were joking at first :o

Well, then I guess that Sinarat and Nwara will be some awesome ships :D

(Jokes aside, me likes that freighter :))
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