Modding Tools--Component Creator

[Krsqk]

I wanted to make sure that this didn't get buried in a topic no one read anymore (the Open Ended Tech Levels thread); so I copied it and gave it its own thread. Here's the scoop:

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Good news/bad news.

Good news first: After months (ok, parts of a couple of weeks) of hard labor (fiddling), the Component Creator is officially finished! Well, at least Version 0.75 of it is. I wanted to post it and get some feedback from modders\modders-to-be\players who want to be modders but haven't had time.

Bad news: The initial download is a hefty 2.05MB. (Sorry to all dial-up Users like me.) This is due to the size of the DLL I'm using. I haven't figured out yet how to extract only the functions I need from it and link to them in a smaller DLL. However, the good news is that future updates will be in the 300KB range; so added features won't mean another 10 minute download.

The entire package is included in a self-extracting RAR file; just extract to your SEIV directory. It will create a "Component Creator" directory with the required files and two sub-directories. If, for some reason, you would rather have a different archive format, post and let me know; the RAR just saved 400KB over ZIP, which modem Users appreciate.

Anyway, enough jabber; here it is:

Component Creator.exe

Please comment--this is definitely a work-in-progress. If you have questions, please see the included readme first.

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