Some years ago, while working on the Echelon Reference Series, I reached a point where individual titles would take months to put together (the diagrams were horribly time-intensive). I shifted direction and decided to release the ‘Rough and Fast’ (RAF) versions of the titles, without the diagrams and all the …
Yesterday I explored some unexpected things in my prerequisite diagrams code (short answer: I did not expect what I should have, the code was working as designed). As part of that I came up with a few things to try, to see if they could resolve the oddities. Examining Updated …
Even when there is no actual narrative, a picture can make something clear that might have been easily overlooked. Yesterday’s build showed me I’d made at least one unfortunate assumption that could lead to incorrect search results. After fixing this I examined some diagrams I knew would be affected, and …
Okay, okay, it’s a little rough yet, but I can see this can work. There are a few things I’d want to add (such as the option of specifying exclusions, bits of a diagram to not include, but it looks like much of my headache is going away. These diagrams …
The only constant we have is change. There was a major change to how I represent data in my workflow. Overall this is a good thing: it gives me more flexibility in what I can capture and model cleanly, it lets me more precisely match things when I’m searching, and …
Don’t ask questions if you don’t want to know the answer. The other day I posted Back to the Drawing Board, describing changing how I create prerequisite diagrams for the Echelon Reference Series. I think I’ll be able to do a lot of the basic stuff through scripts, leaving only …
Yes, this site now has a forum. A bit bare bones in structure and sparse of content, but I decided that comments on posts are not how I care to hold a conversation. The initial groups and subgroups are a guess at this point. I don’t plan to use the …
Sometimes I think I’m losing my mind, sometimes I find I’m losing words. I could’ve sworn I wrote this down here, recently, but buggered if I can find it. Okay, here we go again. In the grand theme of GreyKnight’s “Post to End It“, I’m coming back to my card …
… as it were. One of the more valuable aspects of the Echelon Reference Series in my mind, and one of the most time-consuming, is the collection of diagrams showing the prerequisite relationships between game objects. That is, many feats have a diagram that illustrates the prerequisites of that feat, …
While working on Icons in the Sandbox, though, I realized a limitation in the polyhedral process that doesn’t much come up when creating pantheons. Even if there are multiple pantheons in a campaign setting, even if those pantheons interact, you can pretty reasonably create each on its own polyhedron and …
