No, you can still use the Wizard if you want. The Stormfront is just extra (and really it was developed for GS, DR just supports it).

It does take some getting used to. Personally I love the health/mana bars, others hate it. It's one less command I have to type to check my status. I had to go in and edit the skins to move the compass though, that was my major gripe.

Windreaper
-Facta Non Verba, Deeds Not Words

what I miss from Wizard:
-Typing a letter in script box to get to the script I want
-scroll wheel support in all boxes
-multiple boxes for macros, sorted from pure, shift, control, alt
-being able to move stuff around, I'm used to my direction icon to be on the bottom left
-quick buttons!
-direct link to notes and message board
-drag box

What I like:
-health bar
-mana bar
-more colors

I guess I'll keep the Wizard until it's no longer supported.

Totally agree Wind. If they had made the compass movable, able to be reduced in size, and be able to change the color on the thing I wouldnt have much to gripe on about SF. Would like the little man icon to be movable of course. But that's just me. I like to have maximum flexiblity in arranging things to suit me.

If I havent mentioned it thanks for looking into making the compass color changable. Is there anyway to make it have the options the main window does? ::grins::: Might as well ask to see if its possible.

Bluefalcon

I am willing to donate a bit of time to people if you have some questions about Stormfront. I am by no means an expert, but I have figured out most of the basics.

This interface is too damn good for you to walk away.

Even if you don't want to ask me anything, let me give 2 tips:

1) Importing Scripts. I gave step by step instructions here: https://www.play.net/forums/messages.asp?forum=20&category=1&topic=2&message=19200

2) Not feeling comfotable. Make it look as much like the wizard as possible. Close all the windows you don't normally use. Basically drop down to the Wizard + status bars. That should help.

If you want to ask me something directly, IM me at ElriicDR




You gesture at Vaschon.
A bolt of bluish lightning blazes out of the sky towards Vaschon!
The bolt blasts through the head in an explosion of mangled, smoky flesh!
Roundtime: 2 seconds.
Vaschon turns its tail to the sky for the last time.

Okay here's my dumb question about Stormfront settings. I was okay with this during testing, but now that everyone's in dr2 it's driving me crazy. Is there any option that corresponds to the Wizard's 'compress incoming linefeeds'? All that wasted space is just so.... wasteful! Not to mention I have so many fewer lines on my screen cause of the mandatory stuff on top and bottom, everything goes by too fast to read (and I'm a FAST reader).


~Raycha

"I think perhaps the website dislikes me. Whatever, I dislike it back! Take that website!" -Smegul

"Certainly some of the current RPers would have pretty good Oral skill if things were properly kept track." -Zairius

I have noticed something similar but I haven't nailed down exactly what causes it yet.

The bug I am seeing is that if you have SF maximized on your monitor, and you then minimize Stormfront by clicking on the SF app button in XP's task bar, when you click on the app button again it doesn't maximize, sometimes it opens in a smaller window. This behavior is different than expected and different from any other app I have ever used.

Open up the 'Windows' List
Click on the little 'disk' next to the word Story.
SF will open a file dialog.
Enter a name of the file you want to save and hit open. It'll increment the file name by 1 number every time you open the program from now on.
If you want to log the different windows, just click the disks next to each name.

You're done ;)


Credit goes to the queen of Logs Tyrathia for figuring this out.


You gesture at Vaschon.
A bolt of bluish lightning blazes out of the sky towards Vaschon!
The bolt blasts through the head in an explosion of mangled, smoky flesh!
Roundtime: 2 seconds.
Vaschon turns its tail to the sky for the last time.

Masterm,

I love the skin but why right hand on left? That and I would rather have normally sized hands anyway, even if they take up the bottom. I'll play around and see what I can do.

>>You read from left to right, and you start by picking stuff up with the right hand, so it makes sense to have the right hand on the left

I prefer it the other way. Everyon ehas their own preferences though.

Brabs

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>I'll make another one with the health/mana bar where the hands are, and full sized hands where the health/mana bar is. Doing that though, the policy/news/forum thing would be taking up space again, and I doubt I have the web space to upload it to at the moment.

You might want to think about uploading the skins in zip format. That'll save considerable server space and also help out us poor folks logging in on our girlfriend's lame dial-up <g>.

>>Apu>>I always put the right hand on the left too, it feels more natural. You read from left to right, and you start by picking stuff up with the right hand, so it makes sense to have the right hand on the left :)

Same here. One of the small annoyances I have with Genie ... they have it left-right instead of right-left and you can't move them. <flail>

~~~Krin
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"You whine like a mule ... you are still alive!"
"Call me Snake."

>>I've been out of it for awhile, and I just wanted to know if there were any plans to make a Mac version of Stormfront.

No.

However, there is in progress (full information available on the Simutronics forum, in the Mac FE board) a serious update for the Mac Wizard, for Mac OS X, by a GS GM hired specifically for the job, name of Ethereal.

Hopefully, the public beta test will be available sometime in the actual near future, and the backwards compatibility for current Mac Wizard users should be fairly high, and the new features rock. Enough that there is a series of posts over in the GS forums, in their Mac FE boards, about someone who attended the pre-release seminar at SimuCon this year who is strongly tempted to get a Mac just to use the new FE when it comes out.

~Kyn (Kynevon)

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>I am getting a prompt about every 10 seconds or so, which I assume is part of the streaming data the game sends to keep stormfront updated on the fly. Any way this can be turned off? It's getting to be rather annoying having 15+ prompts on one line...

You're getting a prompt on the same line?
Like:
> > > > >> ???

-Sukair

"Nevertheless, history no longer matters here -- in things that have happened and things that will happen and things that are happening. Elanthia is dying."

Does ZMud support the XML protocol StormFront uses, or is it still using the GS tag protocol that the Wizard uses?

-Sukair

"Nevertheless, history no longer matters here -- in things that have happened and things that will happen and things that are happening. Elanthia is dying."

<<How do you feel about right hand on top of the left hand, a bit smaller than normal, so that combained they have the height of the status bar?

Personally, I'l like the option to hide the that third hand, move the macro and option bars to the bottom, (Where they are out of the way until you need them), move the compass up to the top right, be able to make the compass a lot smaller, and be able to change the color of the compass. When I'm traveling I'm used to looking up at the top of the screen.

I'm using the one of the ones that Windreaper has made, its better for me than the default skin.

I've looked at the program to write the skins, but the documentation and help options on that prgram are poor. If I could figure out how to do use the program I could make the skin do what I want it to do, but because the documentation is so poor you have to have used the program already before you cna figure out what you need to do.

Bluefalcon

I can get it to work just fine. Just adjust the Visual in the StatusIcon object group, under Preview->BottomBar.

-Ranik

Bleeding constantly eh? Sounds like some object is pulling the images out of status_sample where it shouldn't. Check everything that calls that image under Background. I'd have to see it myself or see yer skin file to know for sure.

-Ranik

I ran into that problem too when I was experimenting. It resets itself correctly if you actually get diseased/poisoned/bleeding, then stop, but it always shows the first time you log in. I havn't been able to correct it, but only looked at it briefly.

Windreaper
-Facta Non Verba, Deeds Not Words

>Ok, so I've moved(cut and pasted within project tree) the compass and status icons to the "top area" skin object and moved the macro and options pulldown boxes to the bottombar object. Everything looks good in the preview, but when I try to run SF I get a slew of pop ups saying its unable to locate these various objects and do I want to use default skin? Can someone help please? My IM is KelyanWM if there's anyone willing to give a quick tutorial.

Unfortunately it's not that simple. The game code requires that certain objects in the SF skin stay in certain parts of the display, or they won't work. You can however in most but not all cases just move the item without changing it's 'parent' item by using the 'visual' property, which controls placement. There are keyboard shortcuts to nudge objects around, and you can also use the mouse to drag things.

Sure. Remember that the order in which the objects are loaded and layered is derived from the order listed in Activeskin. So under Preview, you will see the Bottom Bar is loaded before all the windows and panels. If you use the arrow to move it down, it will load on top of those windows. Bear in mind this can have adverse effects depending on how you have things arranged.

-Ranik