"There is no guarantee as to how long the links (to the old BioBoards) will be active. It has already been stated by Chris Priestly that the old boards can disappear without notification."
I thought it would be a good idea if I 'rescued' as much of the scripts on these old forums as I knew the location of. I have therefore gone through all 18 pages of the "Endless List of HomeBrew Functions [post functions only, not for asking questions]" thread, all pages in the even older "Completed Scripts" and 1 or 2 other locations that I had an address for and extracted the scripts from these pages. I have only included code that was actually posted on the old BioBoards and not anything that had a link to it away from the site. Even so this still equates to 360+ entries by 210 different authors. Each entry is credited to the original author and whatever relevant comment was made in thier board submission has been included as comments.
I have also edited each submission in such a way that they now appear with the same programming style, which hopefully makes them more readable. Where there was more than one version of the same script, I have only included the latest version in the hope that it is more likely to be bug-free and fully working. In order to keep things managable, I have kept to the original pages for the 'Endless' scripts and the original topics for the rest. Finally, I have created seperate indexes for the 'Endless' scripts and the 'Complete' scripts. I haven't indexed the small number of other scripts as they are generally 1 to a page.
A few things to note.
a. Some of these are (in computing terms) very old. In effect, they may have worked when written but updates to nwn may have rendered them either non-working or obsolete.
b. Some of them are designed for single player, while others are for persistant worlds and yet others work with all types of game.
c. If you do decide that some peice of code suits your purpose, it is probably a good idea to first try them in a small test module, just to be safe.
d. Some of the entries here represent the first outing for systems that have since been expanded by the original author and placed on the vault so it is probably a good idea (at least with the larger entries) to check there before using a large system found here.
e. As I am NOT the original author of any of these scripts I make no guarantee as to thier fitness for anything. As far as I am aware, they are all supposed to work, but I can't guarantee it.
Anyway, rather than keep this all for myself I have decided to upload this to the vault in order for it to be available to anyone who wishes to download it.
Thank you molo67. Also thank you LordLestat. I was going to point you towards item d. in my description above but then I re-read what you wrote and now understand what you actually meant. In response this is not surprising as the threads where these came from had nearly 10 years to evolve over. I hope it doesn't detract too much.
TR
Posted by molo67 at 2011-02-20 09:02:58 Voted 10.00 on 02/20/11
Thank you for putting this together! _________________________ NWN Shield Reskins Link New Small Shields Link
Posted by LordLestat at 2011-02-18 19:50:56 Voted 9.00 on 02/18/11
The fact that you went through tons of old posts and messages to put together a workable package of scripts is in itself tremendous. I I found most of what you put together quite readable and usable as it is. Only thing I noticed and this is minor, very minor is that some of the things in the package have been used to some extent if not edited into more recent scripts. All in All it is a great package and provides many basic guidlines on many things and gives a solid guide to young scripts on developing their own creations. _________________________ DEATH
A thought on Death;
Its not Death if you refuse it,
It is if you Accept it!
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Posted by The_Krit at 2011-02-10 09:36:19 Voted 8.50
Oh, two details:
When a script is a refinement of an earlier one, it is good to select only the latest for this, but it would be more appropriate to list the authors of the earlier ones (in addition to the author of the latest one).
I find that the removal of the indentation of comment lines makes the code less, not more, readable. (You disrupt the organization implied by the indents.) Similarly, adding a blank line between a comment and the code it is describing interrupts the flow.
Posted by ffbj at 2011-01-31 16:41:34 Voted 10.00 on 01/31/11
Wow! Thanks TR for all the work of saving this stuff.
Posted by earthwalker_77 at 2011-01-30 11:09:21 Voted 10.00 on 01/30/11
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