NWN2 Toolset

Krator · Post by **Krator** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:06 am

https://www.cmpevents.com/sessions/GD/S1628i1.ppt

Enjoy

Heed · Post by **Heed** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:29 am

Score!

Nice find.

Zebranky · Post by **Zebranky** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:07 am

Written in C# with plugin capabilities!

I just had a NWN2gasm.

Revan · Post by **Revan** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:20 am

Zebranky wrote:Written in C# with plugin capabilities!

I just had a NWN2gasm.

+1

Pathos Street · Post by **Pathos Street** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 3:25 pm

Zebranky wrote:I just had a NWN2gasm.

PsiOmega · Post by **PsiOmega** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 3:29 pm

Multithreading

Fire Monkey · Post by **Fire Monkey** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 3:31 pm

OK can some of your computer-type people explain to the rest of us what the significance of this is?

Krator · Post by **Krator** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:04 pm

Fire Monkey wrote:OK can some of your computer-type people explain to the rest of us what the significance of this is?

Making NWN2 things in the toolset just got a lot:

-easier to handle
-more fun to do
-faster

Heed · Post by **Heed** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:23 pm

There's no real new info. there -- all this stuff hase been known for quite a long time. But it's nice to see some of the reasoning and thinking behind the decisions.

The biggest advantage in terms of usage is that the toolset will be modeless -- that is, you can have many window panels open at the same time and switch between them. The NWN1 toolset only allows you to have one editor panel open at a time.

So, if you are writing a script and you then need to get the resref of an item, you need to save script, close script editor, open item property window, copy resref, close item property window, open script editor, open the script and paste resref.

In the NWN2 toolset at most you will need to do is, open item property window, copy resref, tab back to script editor, paste resref.

As the presentation says, the extra clicks and steps really add up quickly and suck a lot of time up that could be spent building proper.

Tesh · Post by **Tesh** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:33 pm

That looks awesome.

TBH it looks like they have bought the Visual Studio framework to provide the interface to the toolset, which IMO is a bloody good idea