Chris Avellone and "the editors"

[Kreegle]

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The wonderful <b>Chris Avellone</b> has yet again shared some of his precious knowledge with us on the <a href="http://feedback.blackisle.com/forums/sh ... o=lastpost" target="_blank">Black Isle boards</a>, and yep... it's about those mysterious Fallout Editors we've all been craving for. Says Chris:<blockquote><em>Editors Update: We're still working on it. Again, there could be last minute problems that come flying in out of left field, but I think the only major obstacle is time.


Source Code, etc, etc: We can't release the source code because (as I understand it - again, I'm not a programmer) it references sound libraries and movie libraries that aren't ours, and there may be potential conflicts with the Mac release of F2. We're looking into it anyway, but that's going to take much longer than the editors, and there's no guarantee we could actually release it.


There's not much on backup tapes, although the documentation that exists I have been either scanning or re-typing and releasing it through the Bible so you can look at it (Jackals, Vipers, Burrows). A lot of that stuff is out-of-date, though, as you can probably tell. </blockquote></em>Interesting... and then when good ol' <a href="http://www.nma-fallout.com" target="_blank">Odin</a> probed MCA a bit further, he said this:<blockquote><em>The editors require some programming before they're release-worthy, and getting a programmer to spend time on it is difficult, since they're all very busy with other projects. The fact that the editors are old doesn't help matters, either.


Even when the programmer is finished, we're still going to have a member of QA jump on them for a while to make sure there's no problems.


Like I said, (1) there could be unforseen problems that prevent the release of the editors, and (2) even if nothing comes up, it's still going to take a while.


Hope this helps - thanks for your patience. </em></blockquote>Patience - the stuff Fallout fans are made of! (Well, that and bitter loathing).


Cheers Rob!


<b>(Killzig says: So basically this is saying that there's nothing new to report on the editor front? Interesting.)</b>

[VasikkA]

Ha, I'm not gonna fall for that one.
Err, that's good news I hope, at least they are working on the editors. :roll:

[Araanor]

They actually intend to divert manpower to work on it, I'm impressed.

[Saint_Proverbius]

I wonder if they have someone working on the save game convertor they were also working on for Fallout 2 as well.