Question NILE or MED for JO/E IC Mod

[JET-WTF]

I agree with you Blue, and that is truly my point. the preplanned disabling of NLH 7 to force those people to buy V8.x. It was plain wrong to disable the older free once the new version came out.

I personaly use Med so NLH is not needed, but like you said if it was $2 for the paid version that has much more functions and i was using the free version i would have no problem shelling out the money for the better program.

Make a .3di program that works good Dad, and ill buy it for $10, but first i want to give it a test run....

[ZAK]

This can NILE NOT! this is the First AAS (Multiplayer) Map with Tank Supporting when you Team Lost a Number on 3 or 4 Tanks.
This AAS Map coming Up in 5 Weeks.

[Q-dad~TAG]

I agree with paying for mapping tools. The same goes for modding tools, since I mod much more than I play...

What I meant was that I would pay for such tools made by the game company..., but only if they provided a certain degree of support and fixing/patching for it... These days, though, if a game company releases such tools, it's common to release them for free...

As far as tools made by the community for the community, I will always believe they should be free... People put in lots of their spare time for the community, either by simply playing a lot (which keeps the game alive and the number of servers up), or by posting in forums a lot and helping others, or by creating/administering the community web sites and forums, or by arranging tournaments, or by making maps, or by making mods, or by making tools, etc... Why should a creator of tools feel so special that he/she needs to be paid for the effort...? Asking for donations is acceptable, though...

Anyway, if I should ever release a tool, I would never make people pay for it... About X3di, it was not really going to be a tool for newer games. It was to be a tool for converting 3di files between old games like DF1, DF2, AF3, LW/TFD and maybe a few more even older ones... My priority was going to be to make it able to convert 3di files to DF2 from those other games, though... It was also going to be able to create DF2 3di files from for instance an .obj file, i.e. a similar tool as the one in the BHD MOD Tools...

After Doc died, though, I haven't even touched Delphi, and it's not installed on my current PC... However, during the current work of finishing TXP2 for DF2 (to be released on April 11th), I have managed to write some scripts, using the relatively simple scripting language of WinHex, for converting DF1, LW/TFD and some of the AF3 items to DF2 (still not finished, though), so I have no personal urge right now to continue with the X3di tool... After TXP2 has been finished, though, I might start up the work on X3di again, at least for the purpose of making it possible to create new items for DF2...

[JET-WTF]

These days, though, if a game company releases such tools, it's common to release them for free...

They release for free because they know that when people use them and release what they made then it keeps people playing their game, and also with knowing that those people will buy their next release because they enjoyed the last so much. simple marketing.

usualy those tools are also ones that the developer used to make missions or even add the objects to the game in the first place. so they spent money making the tools so they could make the game in the first place. and releasing them cost them $0, gains them repeat customers, free advertising, and even new customers.

[WiperSix]

I for two agree,

and I have strained myself on the reply



wtf


cheers