Guild of Writers

Okay, Drizzle24 has just been released, and here's what's new!

You can download it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/drizzle/files/Drizzle24.jar/download

(The official page with installation instructions, walkthroughs and screenshots for the Ages, and a more detailed description is here: http://alcugs.almlys.org/Drizzle)

(You can use Moulagain files instead of Moul files if you wish!)

New features:
-New "The Art" tab, which support's Cyan's 3dsmax Age exporter.
----It converts the files created by 3dsmax to Pots, so you can test them offline and share them!
----It's simple to use, and automatically fixes or warns about a number of bugs with Cyan's software.
-New major feature: DrizzleDecompile (in Advanced->Decompile)
----A complete replacement for Decompyle
----100% correctly decompiles all Cyan Python files and the entire Python22 library! (Decompyle has a number of mistakes.)
----42 times faster than Decompyle! Decompiling all the Hexisle files took 255 seconds with Decompyle, and only 6 seconds with DrizzleDecompile.
-Makes your choice of tea, coffee, or ovaltine; all for you to enjoy on a refreshingly misty morning.

Conversion improvements:
-Fix for the Delin/Tsogal doors.
-Improved KadishGalleryDoors.
-Fix for particles, so that the rain/snow no longer pass through ceilings. (Thanks Fero!)
-Inplacemod to fix the Relto pine trees.
-Inplacemod to make the Relto book covers dynamic.
-Inplacemod for the Ahnonay Sphere 1 multiplayer crash. (Using info from a certain anonymous person)
-Inplacemod for Gahreesen crashing bug. (Thanks Fero!)
-Improved scenenode creation. (Good for Crowthistle)
-Doesn't completly ignore animations that have a relativeMatrixChannelApplicator. (Good for Crowthistle)

Other improvements:
-Improved Deepview2.
-Improved wikispider to be more responsive and give better info.
-Command-line interface for both decompiling and converting from 3dsmax, for people who want to automate these things.


The Drizzle team includes OldWolle with Age collection and mirroring, L.K. with walkthroughs and the German translation, myself with coding, Chacal with the French translation, and Wodan with the Dutch translation. Enjoy!

Fantastic !

A small request though: some of us use multiple uru install and the one used in conjunction with the UAM is not necessarily the one where we test things. Could it be then possible to be able to set a different path for the uru folder in "The art" tab .( it's not a big deal but it's just that it can become quite annoying to have to change the path every time especially if the folder are in very different places - even in different hard drives )

In the meantime, the easiest thing for you to do is to just have separate copies of Drizzle in separate folders. They will then have separate settings, and you can have one dedicated to your testing copy of Uru. (Perhaps the simplest is to just put a copy of Drizzle right in the Uru folder.)

Great idea, should have though of that !

If you are using the current Offline KI 3.2, to get the full functionality, you need to run the Drizzle 24 "inplacemods": Select the "Conversion" tab and hit the "Start" button next to the POTS folder selection. This does not require any additional game, it just fixes some problems in the original files.
It is also a good idea to re-convert all games you previously converted, there were changes everywhere.

Once again, thank you Dustin.

I seem to have a problem with Drizzle. Last time I used it, it worked fine. Today I go to use it and it won't open. I click on the jar file and the Drizzle title popup comes on screen, flickers for a moment and then closes. Drizzle never starts.

Edit: Finally got it to open, but had to close out Blender first to do it. Seems Blender and Drizzle may not like each other.

Edit: Or Apparently 3DS Max 7 as it wouldn't load unless I closed down Max 7.

Works fine with open Max for me.

Did you install the newest Java version?

For the next version, would it be possible to have an additional "convert and start Uru" button in the "The Art" tab where you can start up PotS automatically when the conversion process is finished?