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That is very interesting to hear and thank you for your support. We hope you enjoy using skyline
Looking at the link you sent, you might find the editor plugin system useful as you can use qt to design your layouts and UI for editor side stuff and program it inside skyline using lua. In the editor, look at the "main menu bar > Plugins".
Skyline is in beta and can crash when exploring deeper into more advanced featuresets, but we are happy to respond and fix all the bugs we can that you report. If features are required, then depending on how much time they need to be integrated, we then plan it into our schedule. So if a simple feature is needed, then they make it in fairly quickly.
We are also in the middle of an engine upgrade where we are sporting new visuals with better lighting and performance called Gen2 which entered its alpha phase in sept/oct 2016 and has come on leaps and bounds over the past few months. Hopefully Gen2 will be replacing Gen1 bringing constant updates back to normal development and also has many feature improvements over Gen1 bringing scene editing up to a higher standard and a new material system. Because we are developing Gen2, we have not had time to update Gen1 as all efforts are put into Gen2.
All commercial users are allowed access to the private alpha, so if you want to join in then please pm me and i can sort the access out
Please note: that Gen2 is in an alpha status because certain features are missing such as terrain, vegetation, roads, ribbon trails, chain billboards and are in the process of being made for the full conversion. It also means that the engine may work unexpectedly and crash every so often or have a bug in a feature although the main working pipeline is far more stable than Gen1 in certain/most completed areas. Gen2 is also getting a visual editing GUI over the before html/css scripting.Currently, we do not support a C++ SDK but as mentioned before, we are happy to integrate features or lua functions if needed.
We look forward to your development of your game and look forward to seeing some updates of your progress.
Again, thank you for your support
Statistics: Posted by SolarPortal — 29 Jan 2017, 18:52
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I am endeavoring to make a visual book of my written book stories in the World of Anvarath.
Much of the pre-work and design testing/learning was done in the Aurora (NWN1) and Electron (NWN2) toolsets by Bioware then Obsidian respectively. I made a comprehensive toolset integrated addon that I called Olander's Realistic System (ORS) that I gave out to other hobbyists/developers to run their own 'Hard Core' Persistent Server....it was voted Hall of Fame by peers.
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For about 4 years now I have been trying to remake the NWN1 game engine as a framework overlay in a base engine. Much success has happened in Unity v4.4 Pro through v5.4 Pro...v5.5 Pro is giving me fits currently. I have been also with some success making this in UE4.7 to v4.13...but the project corrupted and requiring a rebuild in v4.14.
Unity is just bug riddled and their new subscription methods are driving me away from this engine quickly. Converting NWScript (C Code-like) to C# has been both fun and interesting. Most every very useful function in the NWN Lexicon has been reverse engineered and used with success in the Unity game engine. A great experience.
UE4 is a very well polished engine. The features work and until recently project updates rarely break anything. UE4 Visual Scripting is solid and easy enough to translate my C/C# code to UE4 Language. UE4 C++ is different and a really large learning curve in my opinion. Doing something like Bioware did in NWN1...GetNearestObjectByTag or SetLocalObject are just crazy strange and far too difficult to do. Object communication is just plain crazy to get set up....especially in Visual Scripting.
I also gave Esenthel a solid go and although nice it is pure C++ and doing things in it is just plain strange. It was lacking some really decent features and the tutorials are so basic that it just a get started type of thing. Just kept hitting wall after wall.
So yesterday I finally downloaded Skyline (new about this for some time but was pressing on in Unity). I spent the entire day dragging and clicking. No crashes and I have to say...the statement about being comfortable and easy to use is very much true. Skyline reminds me A LOT of NWN2 (Electron Engine) but with vast improvements. I do not mind LUA at all since doing some modding in LoTRO so I am doing some learning and preparing to start figuring out what functions need to be made in Skyline for game play. So far Skyline has been a real breath of fresh air. So much so that I bought the commercial license today.
I look forward to making this journey in a really nice engine.
Cheers and Regards,
Olander
www.standsurestudio.com
Statistics: Posted by Olander — 29 Jan 2017, 18:17
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