Request: one DevKit feature in advance
I know you won't like me asking this but we really want different sprite support in PR#2 next week Sunday. Could you quickly whip up a standalone bodies.dat xml generator which you can then also use in the DevKit? That'd be awesome if you could :3
Thankies ^^
EDIT:
I'm talking about TopDown bodies.dat generator of course :3
I know but manually adding about 50-100 sprites is gonna take hours while a generator could do that in 2 seconds and we'd need one for the devkit eventually 
Dangoss added 106 dialogs so we'd need at least 106 npcs by PR#2 which is next Sunday, and most of those NPCs have different sprites.
Well I'm not going to create the editor for it just to recreate it when the new editors are started. That'd just be a huge waste of time.
I know hence why I asked it if it was possible so you could just throw it in the devkit once you start on the coding of it?
I don't really know but it doesn't really have to be an editor? Just a cmd line application that writes the xml values would be good enough really. So you could reuse the code in the actual (GUi-having) editor?
For SVO, sprites are all in \Grh\Sprites\npcs and \Grh\Sprites\players
So if it somehow just reads those folders and writes the xml accordingly. But if you don't feel like coding it right now, just say "GTFO Skye" and I'll wait with more whining till the devkit is around the corner 
DF & I have planned to work on the GUI of the DevKit tomorrow evening by the way.
Well since its just basic XML, it'd be easy enough to write a command-line app yourself. 
It'll probably take me longer than you would like for me to get around to this.
What you can do is this:
1. Enter in the values through a text file, something simple like each line is a new body, and each entry is tab-delimited
2. Create a console app to read the text file and separate the values
3. Output the Xml using the XmlWriter (I believe it is)
It should be quite straight-forward to do, and good programming practice.
The whole idea was that the app scans the folders and automatically adds everything. Adding stuff manually in a text file is gonna take forever as well. Writing something that makes xml is something I can probably do but I need something that scans those folders as well (like the Auto Grh Update).
Oh... well I'm not sure what you would want from the scanner, so it'd probably be easiest for you to do anyways then.
I'm guessing Directory.GetDirectories(), and maybe Directory.GetFiles() is all you are going to be needing if you are just auto-adding it by directory and file names.
Okay, thanks :3 we'll look into it ^^ I'm guessing most people will use this "scanner" then since the way bodies.dat is made for topdown is kinda different than for sidescrolling.
Just make a console application. You will probably have everything you need in the System.Xml and System.IO namespaces. (could try to use System.Xml.Serialization if your lazy)
skye if your having problems i can have a look at this quickly for you sometime this week.
There are 10 types of people in this world - Those who understand Binary and those who don't.
Well that'd be cool since I'm guessing some code changes will have to be done in the client as well (not sure how the topdown body is loaded right now). As long as it's before Thursday, I'ma focus on other content meanwhile. The code could then be added to the new devkit anyway, so it's not like it's coding time wasted
Got 2 exams coming up next week so I'm not gonna spend time coding >_>
No! Skye has to do it! I'm going to force him to learn basic C#, whether he likes it or not!
But Skye doesn't have time at the moment. I AM learning C# with "Head First C# 2nd Edition" which is a really great book by the way but I really don't have time at the moment. Got exam on Sept 7 & 9th. After that I should have some more time to work on my C# skills.
But this hasn't got anything to do with me learning C# but rather with speedier development of SVO.
Fair enough.
Oh don't worry, Skye is definitely not my favorite! He is always reporting bugs and issues. Its the reason why I hate him, yet also why I love him.
Start finding more bugs, and I'll hate/love you more, too!
I love you too Spodi but I'll love you even more when the Devkit will be done (expect many weeks of whining to make it perfect though )
Silly Darkfrost isn't around even though he said he would be so I guess no DevKit programming tonight either :/
I blame having a life! D:
Then start workin' on it! Less lovin', more workin'!
I'm waiting for DF to show up D:
Eh... its not like its hard to just edit the xml directly.