[Latest] Biocross RC1 - it`s back!

Seriously… What’s with you guys here and pansy looking skins!?

Except for that… Nice work!

ITS WORKING!!!  ;D ;D ;D

Awesome… Thanks a zillion for whatever ye did Hazzard… will play a bit
and report anything “bad”… hopefully i’ll have nothing to report

Sry for me delay… RL being a a$$

now time to make a XLR skin… hehehehe…

I’m happy for ya Xarian glad to know everything is going ok

and the pansy skin is a joke and didn’t actually make the final release - Snake has it however over at Freeworlds as a small thank you for letting me test it over at FW’s (oh, and he really likes hearts…)

Good job… respect

Good job and mucho respect. I should really do the decent thing here and try it. I use Ioncross on my test server as its convenient but this looks more friendly

Well if you decide to use it on a server would you mind posting your server name in my forum on FL Forge? Or posting it here…

So i can keep tabs on who to talk to about bugs and what not

You know, when you ‘vanished’ I was really worried we would never see this completed. I am glad you ‘returned’ and completed it. It’s a wonderful achievement.

Great work! ;D

(although I know somebody will find something especially FF, he always has something to say >.>)

He gets kind of repetitive like that after a while, doesn’t he?!

Still not finished yet

Haha if it wasn’t for FF’s talent for pointing little details out I doubt FLDev, or any of his software (and mine which he has helped me on) would be half as good as what it is…

Apologies for the double post but:

http://forge.the-starport.net/gf/project/biocross/frs/?action=index

the updater application is here - I recommend during RC1 you run the application at least once a week to make sure you keep getting the latest fixes and additions…

good luck guys

Major respect to Grimmjow who’s code went into a lot of this updater application

Imgetting a 'missing entry 0’when trying to import an XML set, any ideas?

If you have used your data gen to make your XML GAMEDATA (I forgot to tell you) it does not work perfectly yet as it leaves *'s in the XML file which the language of XML doesn’t like in itself…

There are 2 other possible explanations, one being a bug in the software (which I have not yet experienced) OR 2 you have a GAMEDATA file which is empty because you have no mines or no torpedoes in your mod (which some mods do). In either case you should be able to continue as errors are skipped per file - check your drop down combo boxes to make sure everything is there, and if one is empty and it shouldn’t be then that is your issue…

An alternative for you would be to convert your IFSO text files using my converter (found on my FLForge page) until your data generator has the ability to remove *'s.

I think that is the final step in your data generator until it achieves perfection

EDIT:

Before reporting bugs I would like you to check the Bug Tracker page over at the Forge (which I believe I have set to public) just so you don’t waste your time making a detailed bug report when it is already known (Lancer Solarus this was not aimed at you don’t worry it’s just a general message and didn’t want to double post ;))

EDIT 2:

Those who have already downloaded the auto updater PLEASE download the patch and also the source code is available for download for anyone who would like to point out a few bugs of their own - or add features

I guess that one’s on me, I’ll fix that tonight and upload a new version.

How much of a pain in the A$$ I have been:

Ioncross Datagen reached only version 0.001

Biocross Datagen has reached version 0.004

and that was just in the space of a few days lmao

apologies LS

I have now released the Language Importer tool which allows you to edit the language that Biocross uses - obviously because I am so lingually stupid there is only one language file at the moment (English (UK)).

Download the program and start translating

Use the English UK file as a template - for those wanting to import the file into another program it is | delimited

PLEASE distribute your language files out to others if you make any

Oh Dear… a triple post :S but this IS important for the (1) person who downloaded the language importer (maybe FF :P) the english text file is slightly misformatted through Exporter error, the new language file is here:

http://eredivine.net/biosoft/English (UK).txt

I checked and the latest version already had that fixed. I am compiling a new list of xml files and testing them out….

Development of my FLHook GUI is going well just to document for those out there who care what is going on, I will pencil in what I got going on in here….

FLHook GUI Design Concept:

There will be two flavours of my FLHook GUI - one that is released with Biocross and one that functions on it’s own, essentially both will do the same thing however the Biocross one will be for the server admin’s to use when using a Remote Desktop Connection and the other (standalone) one will be used by people without RDP access. Perhaps I should describe a little about the interaction of the GUI with FLHook…

How Remote Access Works:

FLHook was coded with a remote socket layer, this basically allows anyone to connect to the FLHook console from pretty much anywhere, you MUST have an authorised password and account however!

Biocross and the standalone version will use this socket layer to connect to FLHook - meaning you can download the standalone version to your local computer and still modify the server in a huge way, basically anything FLHook can do you will be able to (you can also set user permissions in the FLHook.ini to prevent people doing some things you wouldn’t want them to, for example SP’s should only be allowed to remote connect to beam kick and ban).

Note that Biocross will use the ANSII port for connecting to and that UNICODE is NOT supported at this time, nor do I see it being supported in the future…

Also note that plugins will be supported in a small sense, which brings me onto how it will look

How it will look:

Essentially I was aiming for the majority of a GUI element as I could, but due to all these plugins floating about and some different FLHook versions and whatever I decided on another approach, I GUI’d the main elements you see in nearly all modern FLHook installations (beam, kick, ban ip, message, add player cargo, delete admin and so on) but also included an MSN kind of interaction with your FLHook, haha very badly explained let me try harder.

The ‘MSN’ interaction is best described if you simply imagine MSN in your head when I am saying this, imagine the send button and the text box and the list of everything that has been “said”.

You type in your command and it shows up like so:

(DATETIME) Admin Said:  
<plugincommand>After however long it takes for FLHook to process this command and send it back to you this will show up:

(DATETIME)The Hooker Said:
Plugin command could not be accepted as parameter {0} was missing

and yes it WILL say The Hooker

Out of interest is anyone out there running this on their server yet?</plugincommand>

Unable to test yet, posted some new tracker items for ya.

I’ll be very mean and suggest adding GUI plugins for Biocross to support the Hook plugins ;D