XML Workflow 2024-10-02
No real change to the workflow, but in rebuilding my Makefile construction I found I’d missed a step, and misrepresented a couple of relationships.
Author: kjdavies
Publishing, Change in Direction
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 …
The Picture Story has a Sequel
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 …
Every Picture Tells a Story
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 …
I Can See Clearly Now, the Pain is Gone!
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 …
XML Workflow 2024-09-26
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 …
So. Much. Drawing.
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 …
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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 …
Building a Deck
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 …
Back to the Drawing Board
… 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, …