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Okay, Drizzle22 has been released, and has a ton of updates!

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 download it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/drizzle/files/drizzle/Drizzle22.jar/download

New Conversion features:
-Converts all 6 Ages from Cosmic Osmo: HexIsle!
-Simplified Conversion tab.
-Agenotfound's Guildhall distillation (requires new Offline-KI to activate)
-Agenotfound's Heek distillation (requires new Offline-KI to activate)
-HexIsle music button to bring Hexisle's soundtrack to your Relto music player.
-Make Relto bookshelf dynamic textures 25% as large to save a ton of memory. (This will make your bookshelf books black until you install the new Offline-KI 3.0)
-Fixed Relto pine tree whose phyics should have disappeared when the Maple trees are shown.
-Fixed MystV exterior bubble reflections (only the interior ones should be inverted.) Looks correct now.
-Makes you happy

New advanced features:
-New DrizzleDeepview2 feature with powerful reflection abilities. (On the Misc tab or via the command line with "java -jar Drizzle22.jar -deepview")
-Make .age files directly Alcugs compatible.
-Implemented several different vertex coders. (Used for bookshelf dynamic textures and realMyst prp generation.)
-Now supports Plasma v3.
-Handles new vertex system from Plasma v3. (new major portion.)
-Implemented Moul Relto Imager distillation, so that it can be taken out of the Offline-KI for copyright reasons.
-Moved MOUL Relto fog into converted prp, out of Offline-KI for copyright reasons.
-ManualConversion support for all Garrison prps.
-ManualConversion support for all Neighborhood prps.
-ManualConversion support for all city prps.
-p2f support

Bug/stability fixes:
-Removed global states to remove non-deterministic behavior, and moved their transformations to the PostMod system.
-Major refactoring of AutoMod framework.
-Major refactoring of Conversion framework.
-Fixed bug with Crowthistle/Myst5/Hexisle PlMessage flag.

My thanks to Agenotfound for the new MOUL conversion stuff! The Drizzle team includes OldWolle with Age collection and mirroring, L.K. with walkthroughs and the German translation, and myself with coding. (And usually also Chacal with the French translation and Erik with the Dutch translation.)

Enjoy!

Wow, very nice!

-Agenotfound's Heek distillation (requires new Offline-KI to activate)

i assume this means that the OfflineKI 3.0 isnt that far off?

It's basically ready now, but Fero said that he'll probably release it on Monday or Tuesday.

Another thing I forgot to mention: until the new Offline-KI is installed, the Relto fog will look strange because it is actually showing the Pots fog and the MOUL fog at the same time. The new Offline-KI will appropriatly hide one of them, depending on what is installed.

Wow, awesome
*me notes the next week as the KI release*

Seems to work fine here, great work
However, I found some minor issues:
- The description in the conversion tab still does not mention HexIsle
- After converting a game, it says
i.e. the messages appear twice.

The official page with installation instructions, walkthroughs and screenshots for the Ages, and a more detailed description is here

My question is this...the newest, thank you, version is somewhat different than the previous in that the start buttons on conversion seem to be interacting with each other, whereas the older versions you had to convert one by one...Am I wrong or did all get converted by pressing just the one start button ( I did MOUL ) and then all the sound decompress happen at the same time?..If so, great job...if not, I guess I need to convert Myst V, Crowthistle and Hexisle separately?

Drizzle 21 - [img=http://s4.postimage.org/1VyxOr.jpg]

Drizzle 22 - [img=http://s3.postimage.org/i9u4J.jpg]

You can do the following:
-set the Pots folder
-set the folder for any (or all) of the games you want to convert
-click "start" (and wait for completion) for each game you want to convert
-click SoundDecompress (you only have to run this once at the end, and you can actually get away with not running it at all, really.)

So, yes, it's actually simpler now :)

Thanks as always for the release!

Too bad my computer got formatted and now I don't have MOUL anymore...

Thanks anyway .

-Agenotfound's Heek distillation (requires new Offline-KI to activate)

Does this mean that the broken Heek table from the offline game is being replaced with a still to make D'ni moonshine?