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Dragon Age Forum News

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by NewsPro, Jul 19, 2004.

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    (Originally posted by chevalier)

    Here are today's BioWare forum highlights, collected by NWVault. Please take into account that these are only single parts of various threads and should not be taken out of context. Bear in mind also that the posts presented here are copied as-is, and that any bad spelling and grammar does not get corrected on our end.

    Don Moar, Tools Programmer

    DA Toolest: More Editing-Wizards please
    Hey, You have to remember that the tools we build are first and foremost intended to make the development of the core game faster / easier and there are fixed resources we can apply to their creation. Therefore which tools get built depends entirely upon how difficult the task currently is (i.e. without the tool) and what other tools could be built instead. Could we build a spell wizard? Probably. Is a spell wizard more important than the tools necessary to properly manage the localization of the game audio and text into foreign languages? Not by a long shot. Keep in mind that with each game, the complexity increases and there is corresponding increase in the need for good tools as do the requirements for what is considered a "good" tool. So while I can't say anything specific about the DA tools, I will say that Tim, Scott, James and Zousar are doing an excellent job building on the lessons we, as a tools team, have learned on BG, NWN, SW:KotOR and JE.

    Tim Smith, Tools Programmer

    Some Humor to retain my sanity
    *cough* Troll comes from a shortened form of the word trolling which means "To fish in by trailing a baited line". http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=trolling. Logically that makes a much better description of trolling than some creature hiding under a bridge waiting for people to walk by. And no, those comments aren't true forms of trolling by any stretch of the imagination. But they are great sources for humor, frustration, dismay and a healthy smattering of WTFs. We love you guys and your enthusiasm, but it sometimes get scary how off hand comments become sacred lore. And no, I'm not complaining.

    Database System to Use
    Codebase? That is what NWN uses.

    What we "DO" know so far....

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    "After our first viewing of the game, this will definitely be an RPG to watch until its release sometime in 2005." From GameSpy website.
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    We have not said when the game will be released.

    Sydney Tang, Programmer

    DA toolset : What is in this ERF?
    It's still to early to say anything in terms of how DA will support importing resources, but as for here and now in NWN, you can go to http://nwn.bioware.com/developers/ and scroll down to the bottom where there is a link to an ERF Editor. You can use this to preview the contents of any ERFs that you wish to use. You can drag and drop the ERF file onto the editor or set up a double-click file association in Windows.
     
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