May 29, 2010: Information Command Updates

Just a minor addition that's an off-shoot of my work on the new epic spells system...I've started adding "pop-up" windows (aka, "examine windows") for some of the informative VC commands. This should make some of the information a bit easier to read in-game. I'm only really doing it for ones with more than 4 lines of text, as the shorter ones work great just in the combat log for quick pieces of info.

A couple of the information windows need editing (mostly for forgotten line breaks), but for the most part they can be used in-game. And a nice little bonus, you can close them out just by hitting the enter key (makes it quick to pop up the info, then get rid of it).

Currently, the two nicer ones are info time and info who / info where (yeah, I added the "who" command simply because it makes sense). I've also done info help (needs editing), info levels (for those with long subrace names and/or class names that can't see it all on the character sheet), and info kk (needs editing).

These little windows stem from my work to make the newer "researched" epic spells more readable in-game like traditional spell descriptions. More info-window goodness to come.

Good deal!

Will any of these require file updates by players?

Nope. It's all scripted.

Neat!

Very cool!