Something I nearly forgot, character generation. How should it be done? Should it be when you start a new game or should there be a standalone character generation program which saves character info in a way that can be read by the game engine? Both solutions have several pros and cons.

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by RambOrc: <strong>Something I nearly forgot, character generation. How should it be done? Should it be when you start a new game or should there be a standalone character generation program which saves character info in a way that can be read by the game engine? Both solutions have several pros and cons.</strong><hr></blockquote> Well, I don't see any advantage having an external character generation program. Why do we at all need a new character generation thingy? Are we adding a whole bunch of new attributes for the player? What the heck is the advantage of having the program external from the game code? Why am I becoming so darn confused? *starts to wish for that design document* -Remi

An external module would allow for a GUI-based, highres easy-to-use complex generation prog with tons of extras and online help for the functions. As to the number of new attributes, I'd go for about 6 main attributes, and some special indicators like hunger/thirst and weariness (OK, you don't generate the latter ones, they're the same category as HP).

I'm going to rework all GIU system, and it will be powerfull enough to create it all in engine.

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Janis Legzdinsh: <strong>I'm going to rework all GIU system, and it will be powerfull enough to create it all in engine.</strong><hr></blockquote> *Remi is really beginning to enjoy having another programmer on the team* [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] (for the record, I despise any GUI programming [img]images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img] ) -Remi