Coming Soon: Generated Outfits Plug-In Pack

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TL;DR: I'm stress-testing the Tech Generator by making a generated weapons plug-in pack for use with EVC, rEV, EVO, EVOE, EVN, and/or BNV. Also, the auto-import features are working!

 

Auto-Import Is Working!

  The Tech Generator is now successfully producing output that can be loaded directly into a plug-in via ResForge or EVNEW! This makes it vastly more efficient to use than before!

   This is a highly complex feature, which means that a great deal of testing is required to prove that it's working perfectly – so it'll be a while before I'll give it the official stamp of approval and "release" the Tech Generator v. 1.1... However, in the meantime, feel free to try this feature in the current Tech Generator, v. 1.0+!

ResForge is a great new plug-in editor, and its spreadsheet import/export capability is extremely powerful.

Generated Weapons Plug-Ins

   The whole point of the Tech Generator is to facilitate the process of creating large numbers of weapons and outfits, so that's precisely what I'm doing to test it: I'm creating 3 large weapons-and-outfits plug-ins, aiming to make each of them a quality product that adds new avenues of fun and ship-equipping strategy to its respective game:
  • One plug-in will be for EVC, and will be compatible with rEV.
  • One plug-in will be for EVO, and will be compatible with EVO: Expanded.
  • One plug-in will be for EVN, and will be compatible with Brave New Void.
   As I build these plug-ins, I'm sure to find bugs and missing capabilities in the Tech Generator, which I'll fix... but I'll also get a better understanding of the overall workflow when using this tool, and what additional features can streamline or improve the process of using it in a practical sense.
 
The current test version of the EVC plug-in, as viewed in ResForge.

Current Status

  At the moment, I've gone through a few very rough initial versions of these plug-ins, aided in my testing by DarthKev and DrFiveMinusMinus (many thanks to them!). This playtesting has already led to several improvements in the Generator. I have a few more small Generator improvements in mind, as well as some tweaking of the specifications it's using to generate outfits for each game, and then I'll start another round of playtesting.
   If you would like to help test the next improved versions of these plug-ins, that would be wonderful! You can either message me on Discord (look for "Mag Steelglass" in the EV Nova or Evocation Games servers), or fill out this Google Form: https://forms.gle/WaZ8kpVb6bDezP1b9


   Thanks, all!

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