2012-12-17, 08:37 PM
(2012-12-17, 05:13 PM)dmpdesign link Wrote:FYI I think I messed up when I tried to unban Holy Diver a while back, I apparently did not modify his user account properly and today I tried to fix that. I hope with any luck that he will be able to log in and use the boards. Holy if you are out there and can read this, please log in and try your account and let me know.
For the rest of you, I have asked Holy via his forums to please visit this site and update the folks here on his SomEx project, as other forum members here have been reporting a great benefit to using the tool. I had misjudged him and thought his project wouldn't be beneficial, but I was wrong. I have also time and again said things to hurt his character to others, and I apologize for that as well. Each person that uses this forum is a valuable community member, and every contribution is important. I made things personal and should not have.
Holy I am extending the olive branch to you to discuss your work with the folks that use this forum and may not know about your own forum.
For other visitors here, if you want to get the most up to date information on SomEx or other tools Holy Diver has been working on please visit his site at \<span> site blocked, contact your administrator
While I will take this statement at face value just for the hell of it and for want of caring. I appreciate a proper public apology. Give yourself a pat on the back while you are at it.
And I can totally see how you could've broken my account WRT the forum, and in the future will chime in when anything totally f'd up is uttered on my behalf.
On the other hand I'm afraid I don't have a whole lot to add in terms of Ex. It's up to whatever community there is here or anywhere to keep their own up to date and in the know, and most of all aware of the futility of going and trying to use SOM without the likes of Ex.
If anyone here actually believes there is a future in the world for Sword of Moonlight then you will make Ex your business. Otherwise if you keep involving yourself with SOM you will just be doing a disservice to others by leading them astray and generally wasting peoples valuable time.
I have a track record of continually working to improve SOM. It's long become a full time job. And I hope that someone takes notice of how far SOM has come with the forthcoming release of Verdite's Dec. (fingers crossed) Rathmor demonstration...
That said Ex is by no means (yet) a thing upon itself. To make a game with SOM you will still require JDO's many contributions. Both to compile a standalone game with his modified version of SOM_RUN, and if you intend to use SOM's artwork, you are far better off with his doctored files than those that come with SOM. Plus though there are translation files for the tool and game pieces cobbled together from JDO's translations at som.net, there is no other way to work with SOM's tools in English without his translations.
And so therefore realistically SOM is still in a state of limbo for all but those who are dedicated enough to collect together all of the necessary remedies. And that's all I have to say on the matter at this time.
Outside of systematically removing enumerable bugs from your SOM game and adding a fair share of desirable features, the main reason anyone should be using Ex is to have a working version of SOM_MAP and to be able to test games in a window. If you are trying to use SOM in any other way you may as well just stop and self flagellate yourself until you have a better idea. As for anyone who would publish a game without Ex. You are lucky that you won't be tried in The Hague... not anytime soon anyway
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"I had misjudged him and thought his project wouldn't be beneficial, but I was wrong."
Yeah because everyone knows that SOM doesn't have any problems.