2006-01-30: Update on Sh3Cmdr compatibility and coming version 0.4
As some people have asked me for the curent status of Sh3Gen I will sum up where we're standing at the moment.
Currently Sh3Cmdr's "Update Personnel File" function will not work on campaigns that have been "enhanced" with Sh3Gen
JScones and I are working on a solution for that. In fact we already had a solution which unfortunately turned out to be not working
I have also encountered some minor problems with re-saving and re-loading. A lot of info would get lost when you were re-saving a savegame generated with Sh3Gen.
I have already fixed these problems for version 0.4, and added improvements as well. The whole output has been re-structured so that it should give better clarity as well as no more cause problems with re-save/re-load.
Moreover, as already announced, version 0.4 will be able to write output intelligently, so that you will no more lose previous waypoints, map entries, sinkings, etc. That means, you should also be able to use Sh3Gen in mid-patrol.
The only problem that remains is the "Update Personnel File" function in Sh3Cmdr. Hopefully JScones and I will have found a solution for this soon. As soon as this is done, I will release version 0.4
Sh3Gen is going to stay beta for a while. For the final release I will be able to provide you with a version that has much better error tolerance. Right now Sh3Gen is set up in a way that it will break off as soon as there is a problem with your data, that's why people are still getting error messages. As with all data-sifting applications, it would be possible to simply ignore the piece of data concerned and continue processing, and the final release will work like that. But at the current stage, it's better to let the application generate an error so that people can report it to me. Therefore, if you encounter abnormal program termination, I encourage you to publish the details as a number of people already did.
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