NWNX 1.09

[Papillon]

It's finally here! NWNX 1.09 has been released today.

Thanks to all contributors who improved NWNX4 with their ideas and patches (in no particular order):

* McKillroy who lay the groundwork for getting rid of madcodehook and for hooking NWN with Detours.
* Virusman who added object store and retrieve capabilities to the MySQL plugin (SCORCO) and for beeing very helpful on the forum
* Skywing who brought in many fresh ideas, especially: Reconnect to MySQL after connection loss, and the graceful shutdown feature

I hope I did not forget anyone. It's been a while, so please speak up if you think you should be on the list. My apologies for all the others who pointed out good ideas and offered their code: I would have loved to include everything in 1.09, but time just did not permit it. Which is a good transition to my next point: Time.

This release of NWNX4 will be the last release by me. I am happy with its feature set and it is stable. One of the best NWN related communities gathered around it, and the community is able to support itself, as the last few months have shown. The lack of free time and interest in other game related projects (although not RPG related) makes this step a necessity.

The good news is that this will not really change anything for end users and fellow developers. The site will continue indefinitely, the source code repository will continue indefinitely, and the forum will continue indefinitely. Ideas and code will come in just the same, and eventually there will be a NWNX4 1.10, merged and packaged up by someone after me. Which (taadaaa!) is another good transition to my next point: Official maintainer.

I firmly believe every successful open source project needs a good captain. Someone who sets the course, has authority, and is responsible for the ship as a whole. I have been this person for the last 5 years and it has been one of my best experiences in terms of community and technology. I despise lengthy elections and political discussions, so I propose a simple approach: Everyone may propose someone else. The person who received the most proposals can accept the election or decline. Should this person decline, it's the turn of the person with the next fewer votes, and so on.

My proposal is: virusman.

So, sorry for this rambling post. Have fun with the new version and thanks for all the fish !!

Note: I am not going away. I will still visit the forum occasionally and of course I am available for answering questions.
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Papillon

[Grinning Fool]

Virusman sounds like a good pick, with a second-place nomination of Skywing.
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Khalidine, a NWN2 persistent world

Looking for volunteers.

[GilGwath]

i second GF.

Virusman or Skywing


and let me add, Papillon, thanks a lot for all great things you did with the game. This is definitely from my heart, and i'm sure many people of my PW would add their voice if they only knew what is running *under* our game

[kungfoowiz]

Interesting news... I had put the toolset and the game away for quite some time. With each NWN2 patch though, things are improving.

NWNX4 has also improved in leaps and bounds.

Virusman or Skywing get my vote, that's if they want to run the operation. Otherwise McKillroy if he wants it. =) Thank you to the contributors for your hard work in bringing the new version of NWNX4 to us.

And to Papillon, amazing work bro. NWNX2 was legendary, and now NWNX4 shall continue this long tradition! Big ups to Papillon and thank you for everything you have done for the Neverwinter Nights community.

Edward

[Elrahc]

Thanks a lot for the update, Papillon, and for your dedication!


~Elrahc

[mckillroy]

I'd agree with your proposal of virusman, assumed he wants to take the responsibility and is willing to do the job. And thanks for all the great work and effort you put into this, Papillon.

[MadK@]

Just a heads up the nwnx_sql included in this package is the wrong version.

[Papillon]

I'll update it this weekend. Thanks for the info.

virusman, what do you think ? A lot of people seem to support my proposal.
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Papillon

[virusman]

Well, I agree.

[Papillon]

Great !

Since nobody objected, I think it's time to officially announce virusman as the new NWNX project leader ! Congrats !!

I'll hand over the necessary access rights to the forum and the website in the course of the next few days.
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Papillon

[Urlord]

Since there is no more madcodehook. The documentation says to copy madchook.dll to the NWN2 install folder. I assume this is incorrect. But is there anything we need to copy to the NWN2 install folder now?

In the 1.09 download, I didn't see any file with the name Detours.

Finally, when will the documentation be updated?


As always, thanks for all your hard work guys!!!
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Jim (aka, Urlord)
Visit the Persistent World of Nymri

[TroveLord]

Devs correct me if I'm wrong.

madCHook.dll was replaced by NWNX4_Hook.dll and it doesn't need to be copied to the nwn2 folder. Yet, some old plugin might still require madChook.dll to work, this is the case of xp_pickpocket for example.

[virusman]

[TroveLord]

I can help a bit with the documentation, just let me know what to include in it and I'll have a look. At this regard, why not installing a wiki on this domain? Dokuwiki is plain-textfile driven and could work to build a documentation with all users' knowledge.

[virusman]