UPDATE 2006-08-03: After a long hiatus, I decided it's time that
Sh3Gen 0.7.0 is released. It wraps up a long list of changes I made before the summer, as well as one major new feature, the mission objectives. I think it's a comprehensive update, at least if you are used to the previous versions.
New features:
Completely new "real"
mission objectives. Depending on the situation, you will be given a randomized mission order that is derived from real game data. This has been a long standing project of mine, and I have finally warapped it up. While not as comprehensive as I initially wanted, it offers a great variety - over 20 different mission types ranging from the usual patrol to sneaking into spanish ports and taking on passengers, as well as profane tasks like weather reports. There are some more ideas that I couldn't squeeze into this release, more about this later. The feature is pretty powerful, because with the randomized targets there is a near infinite amount of missions, and I hope that the first release is already offering a good deal of interest to the game.
Revised
version 1.1 of standing orders. Brad and Georg have sifted through the orders, removed typos and imporved the text in general.
Improvements to the
interface. There are now a lot of new options to switch off modules, like the LND layer, mission objectives, operational orders, intelligence and general situation section.
Imporved handling of disabled campaign layers. In the last release, Sh3Gen would simply skip disabled layers. Now they will be read, but not output in the war diary and map. The big advantage is that it can use them now for internal assessments, important if you want to see only targets from Campaign.SCR and still get the full features.
As usual you can get the new version from here:
http://www.global-explorer.de/contentpage_download.htm
As of today, it is ranked as "beta" - I need people to test it because it has only gone through the most basic testing - because0.6 was very stable, and I haven't changed much in the output routines. But as usual I need experiences, observations, especially report any quirks with the new mission objectives.
GE