Category: Echelon Reference Series

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 …

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 …

… 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, …