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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: September 7, 2014

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ADVANCED WORKBENCH INSTALLATION PACKAGE

by Hazed

The new advanced workbench installation is now available for you to download. This follows last week’s release of the new basic workbench installation, containing the brand new all-singing, all-dancing location editor.

The advanced workbench contains the event editor and the object editor. Although the two programs don’t have any new features, they have been recompiled to use the same library files as the new basic workbench so if you have been using the old editors, you should junk them and get the new versions.

You can download the advanced workbench from here: http://www.ibgames.net/fed2/workbench/windows/advanced/index.html.

You need to install the basic workbench before you install the advanced package, and make sure you install it into the same folder as the basic workbench, otherwise it won’t work. If you haven’t done that yet, get it here: http://www.ibgames.net/fed2/workbench/windows/basic/index.html.

The installation also includes the planet files for Rigel. This gives you some sample event and object files so you can see what they look like before you start work writing events for your own system. They are in the AdvancedExamples subfolder.

Caution: you cannot write events without reading the manual and working through the tutorial. You can download the manual from the same page as the download.

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