You just made my day

It's friday... Soon enought for the first release of the year ?

We're waiting

We should have an overview video up for viewing very soon. The release won't be long on the heels of that.

Not to be confused with:



And the ever famous:

You're reading my mind, dude! LOL

Denny uses a Klein bottle for an hourglass....

The Auld Grump

Poor Denny needs to take a page from id Software and just start answering "when it's done"

Hey if people continue to ask...I'll tell them where things stand at that moment. So long as they realize that the moment is almost completely unpredictable

Seriously though, there's been very good reasons for the delays here. Some were technical but most were positive behind the scenes upheavals. Like I said elsewhere, 2010 is going to be an extremely interesting year for WWG

Here's the TerrainlinX Planner overview video. One part promotion, one part tutorial.

I just realized that I neglected to mention "group select/copy/paste" for copying larger groupings of tiles and symbols. Oh well, I'll have to catch it on the updated video when we add additional features.

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Wow...

That's an impressive piece of work and one that looks to be very much well worth the wait. I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Very nicely done, sir!

Wow. That looks great! Can't wait to get it. Will certainly be picking this up for sure.

Looks good, and has some very handy features.

The transparencies in particular will be good when using the planner for a campaign.

The Auld Grump

It's quite more of what I expected... More, more... That'll be a hit!

And the asking "when?" is part of the fun

Denny,

Generaly the software looks great, I particulary like the ability to make the layers show transparently.


However I do have a question on the software.
It looked like the walls were generic when they are dropped in the planner.
Is there any way to specify what wall you are dropping in where?

For example, I know Streets has six different 6 inch walls. Is there any way to specify which type of wall is being used in each spot?

also does the manifest just list you need this many walls/connectors or does this also say x walls from Set 1, y walls from set 2, etc.

I'm curious about this point as well. Also, are there keyboard shortcuts for rotating tiles?

Not right now, but it's something that is going to get implemented. The problem is figuring out a way to effectively do it as all walls look identical from top down. There's talk behind the scenes about how we want to do this, but suggestions are always welcome. In fact, feel free to hit the TerrainLinX Planner sub forum to make requests/suggestions for the planner.



I just added it in after reading your post. It should be in the initial release, if not it'll be in the first update.

We've got plans for V2 which will cover specific walls from specific sets which work in conjunction with the current generic wall sizes and iconic representations. We tried to get it in there for V1 but we wanted a release candidate out there sooner than later instead of pushing this even further back. The planner currently adds posts, walls, railings and balconies to the manifest in a generic format whereas tiles are implicit.

One thing we'll be stressing constantly is that the TLX planner is absolutely going to involve "feature creep" and we fully expect a number of free updates based on fan suggestions. We've already go a laundry list of features to add to V2 but we're holding off on that discussion until we get some feedback from V1.

That is looking like a VERY useful tool.

EARLY BIRD NOTICE: The TerrainlinX Layout Planner is now available!!! http://www.worldworksgames.com/store/in ... cts_id=309

A HUGE congrats to Brant Hestrup for helping us forge ahead on an entirely new line of products. Planner development was a long and deep process and Brant was upbeat and thoughtful throughout. His ideas and execution make this piece of software something genuinely special.

Front page splash and Newsletter tomorrow

Downloaded!
I'm really looking forward to playing around with this.

Congrats to Denny and the WWG crew for getting this out!

Tinkering with it right now.

The Auld Grump, who should be in bed, fast asleep....

Purchased and downloading after the Dwarvy Dungeony thingy.......

Looks like a great tool and looking forward to using it.

Purchased and downloading over took the Dwaves Dungeon

but will have to what untill i get home to have a play unless it works on a Mac then I may have a go at work

Snagged.

Playing with it... I will use it to know what to print of the new hall set !

Gah! Why do I have to be at work today?!?! I won't get to play with this for HOURS....

Maybe I can fake an illness.

*cough* *cough*

I'm running on a Mac and wondered the same thing... until I fired it up. Much to my delight - and slight surprise - it ran on OSX with no problems at all!

Also using it on a Mac. WWG, thanks for supporting it!

I'm using on a Mac as well. I had to push Java SE 6.0 to the top in my Java Preferences to do it.

Ok, I can't get it to work. I installed the latest Java and it won't go. Seems silly, but how do I access those rumoured Java Preferences?