Fed2 Star - the newsletter for the space trading game Federation 2

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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: May 19, 2013

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REMAINING PLAYER SCRIPTS ADDED TO EVENT EDITOR

by Hazed

It's a running gag that when you ask Alan how long it's going to take to program something, he will say "two weeks". Well, it's been two weeks since I announced that Alan was going to extend the Event Editor, part of the Fed2 Workbench, to add in the rest of the scripts players can use to write stuff on your planets - and much to my surprise, he's already done all of the missing scripts!

So there's another new version of the Advanced Workbench which you can download from the website. As with the version that was released last weekend, the download contains everything needed for the Event Editor and the Object Editor, including the DLL files they need to run.

Download the zip file and unpack it into your Workbench folder along with the map and message editors. If you have previously downloaded the Advanced Workbench, make sure you overwrite the old files with the new ones.

I wasn't expecting Alan to get all ten of the remaining scripts done by this weekend - his speed took me by surprise. So I haven't completed the manual sections for all of the scripts. You can download the tutorial as far as it goes, and I'll write the rest in time for the next issue of the Star. Meanwhile, the script reference page has been updated with the details of all the new scripts, including the ones that haven't made it into the tutorial yet.

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