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Uh-oh. This is a problem. I'll add the latest versions of gigi to the zipfile, but the new ones won't work with the v0.2 executable, so just run everything from within the unzipped designer-tools.zip. I'll change the documentation to reflect this. Download it again in about 10 minutes.

great, thanks.

I don't want it to catch everything... I just want it to catch references to prereqs that aren't defined. This seems like one of the most basic and important things for a utility like this to do.

If you won't, I may take a look at adding/fixing it. I don't suppose you have working msvc project files for tech-check and the other DesignerTools?

That would be fine by me. I just don't have the time.



No, but that's because there aren't any. You need to install Python and SCons. SCons is an alternative build system that works on virtually any platform. You can get it at http://www.scons.org . You need to alter your PATH environment variable globally or within the shell in which you run SCons (preferably a "Visual Studio .NET Command Prompt" console) to include your python directory, then just type "scons".

Where can I find msvcp71d.dll? I tried renaming msvcp71.dll and all I get is a huge page of errors and a crash, so I'm assuming that's not a viable workaround I'm an artist not a programmer, so apologies if I'm doing something boneheaded.

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google for it.

Umm...?

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hmm, not sure what's going on there, but it seems something is wrong with your stringtable. there shouldn't be html tags in there. try doing this:

- extract the designer tools into a new(empty) folder
- make sure all needed dlls are in there too(msvcp71.dll, msvcp71d.dll, msvcr71.dll, ...)
- create a sub folder called 'default'
- put in the techs.xml and eng_stingtable.txt from the CVS(make sure you really got the .txt and .xml file and not this cvs site -> click on view and/or download)
- start tech-view.exe

should work like a charm.

Edit: tzlaine updated CVS, so the eng_stringtable.txt and techs.xml I'd posted here are redundant

Forgive me if I'm overlooking something, but this thread refers to tech documentation hosted here:

http://www.freeorion.org/wiki/index.php?title=Effects

but this page is unavailable.

Is work on the tech tree slowing down to focus on the combat system/v0.4 items?

As I read through the wiki and the forums I'm trying to get an idea of the state of the project and see where I can contribute. I'm not sure if I need to knock out the bugs listed on sourceforge and spit out an idea every once in a while in the forums, or if I can put together some tech tree additions, work on descriptions, propose modifiers and post them here for the devs.

Any direction would be quite helpful.

This thread is very out of date. The link can be fixed by removing the /wiki part, or you can find the Effects document by searching on the wiki / freeorion.org main page.

The tech tree is not receiving any official attention now, and won't until ships and combat stuff is designed enough to be able to plan the basic layout of ships-related tech.

If you want to make some techs to fill out the existing tree, feel free. A lot of the current content is temporary though, so it's probably not the best use of your time.