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JScones · 06-04-10, 09:50 PM

I've been toying with creating library files (DLL) containing key SH3Cmdr functions such as ship names, captain/crew names, randomised events and other "popular" features that don't exist in SH4 or SH5. The DLL could then be called by any frontend application. The DLLs wouldn't be tied to any game in the series, so would work with SH3, SH4 or SH5...that would be controlled by the frontend applications.

Wouldn't be onerous to do, as everything I develop is modular anyway...but it would only be worth doing if someone was working on frontends (I could do a very simple interface that would work with SH3/4/5, but it would be simple and nothing like the SH3Cmdr interface).

And I'd need to know the functions that SH3Cmdr has that would be useful in SH4 and SH5, recognising that some of SH3Cmdr was incorporated into SH4 and so presumably SH5.

06-04-10, 09:50 PM	#6
JScones Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,501 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	I've been toying with creating library files (DLL) containing key SH3Cmdr functions such as ship names, captain/crew names, randomised events and other "popular" features that don't exist in SH4 or SH5. The DLL could then be called by any frontend application. The DLLs wouldn't be tied to any game in the series, so would work with SH3, SH4 or SH5...that would be controlled by the frontend applications. Wouldn't be onerous to do, as everything I develop is modular anyway...but it would only be worth doing if someone was working on frontends (I could do a very simple interface that would work with SH3/4/5, but it would be simple and nothing like the SH3Cmdr interface). And I'd need to know the functions that SH3Cmdr has that would be useful in SH4 and SH5, recognising that some of SH3Cmdr was incorporated into SH4 and so presumably SH5.