Hi again,
I have just uploaded the version 1.00 Beta of the tool. It should now be working without problems, so please report any of your findings as bugs or omissions. After some few days, and if no probelms are reported, I will release it as an "official" version.
The download link is <Get the official version
from the LEX>
Changes from the previous version:
- The Help file has been updated, all missing topics were added, and there is now help on using the commands and explaining the operations.
- It is now packaged as a standard Windows Installer Package (creates menu links, and uninstall info - run Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs, or run the installer again and select the Uninstall option).
Some Notes:
- The program doesn't change file associations for any file type (it's not a main modding tool, so this wouldn't be right). However it's quite simple to use, you can use the standard File Open command, or drag-and-drop.
- All information in the registry is stored under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cogeo\SC4 Model Tweaker". The (un)installer deletes this key automatically, while uninstalling.
INSTALLATION- If you had installed an older version you have to uninstall it fully first (delete all installed files and shortcuts, and then open the registry editor (in your Windows Taskbar select Start->Run, and type-in regedit), go to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cogeo\" and delete key "SC4 Model Tweaker" (and its subkeys). This step is required before installing the new version, otherwise some menu commands may not be displayed, as the program stores there the "personalisation" options of the old version.
- Otherwise just run the installer.
The help file has been updated, and is now complete. I would like to ask the community, esp the native English speakers to take a deeper look, and report their findings, ie missing topics, broken hyperlinks, even linguistic errors, or instead make suggestions and, why not, even their own contributions. There are some topics not directly accessible from the Contents tab; these are accessible by clicking the Help button on the Toolbar: the cursor then changes to arrow+help, and clicking on any part of the application (menus, windows, toolbar buttons etc) should launch the corresponding help topic. Take as an example the document window: open a model file, and then click on the help button and the document window, this displays help on editing the file. There should be help topics for ALL application items.
I would also like to ask some artist to make a nice icon for this, it currently uses the default MFC icon (supplied by the development tool). Esp needed 48x48, 32z32, 24x24 and 16x16, 8-bit and 4-bit (the last ones are dithered versions of the 8-bit ones - they should normally not be needed, but some user(s) may have choosen such display settings).
Replies to your posts:
@null45: Yes, but apparently both use the GL library, which I doubt if it allows selecting and dragging objects, although this is out of the scope of this tool anyway. The s3d.dll is indeed not included in the reader's source; I just use it (there is a header file and an import library included with the reader's source). Unfortunately there is no documentation, so I had to figure out how it works by looking at the reader's sources.
@Diggis: Jeronij didn't say exactly that. Anyways, you can look at the help, this describes how it works in detail - if it doesn't work as specified, then there's a bug or something.