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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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<title>Torlack :: News</title>
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<meta name="author" content="Torlack">
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) 2002 by Torlack">
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<h3>General Information</h3>
<p>This source code contains the full source for the following
programs:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>NWN Explorer<br>
NWN Treasure Editor<br>
NWN Model Compiler<br>
NWN Script Compiler</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Download</h3>
<p><a href=
"http://www.torlack.com/nwntools/nwntools-1.2.zip">NWN Tools
Source Code</a> (ZIP file format - All sources)</p>
<p><a href=
"http://www.torlack.com/nwntools/nwntools-1.2.tar.gz">NWN Tools
Source Code</a> (TAR file format - Without Explorer and
Treasure Editor)</p>
<h3>Copyright and License Information</h3>
<blockquote>
<pre>
Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 - Edward T. Smith
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Neither the name of Edward T. Smith nor the names of its contributors
may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR
PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>As you can see, this is a standard BSD style license without
the advertise clause.</p>
<h3>This Software and Bioware's Intellectual Property
Rights</h3>
<p>If you are looking for information about how Bioware renders
their graphics or information about deep NWN internals, you are
looking in the wrong place.</p>
<p>Bioware (or their lawyers) might not agree, but IMHO, none
of the software contained here exposes any intellectual
property Bioware might hold. Game companies might not
mind much about how they store basic model information, but
when it comes to their rendering engine, they can be very
protective. Contracts can be won or lost based on the
performance or looks of a rendering engine. So exposing
or even discovering intellectual property information is
something that I avoid at all costs.</p>
<h3>Non-Windows Ports</h3>
<p>With the assistance of people lick Erydan and Sumpfork, we
now have available the tools to build the NWScript compiler for
non-windows operating systems such as Linux, MacOS, and
FreeBSD. This work is still in progress but we have made
a significant step forward. If you run into any problems
building the compiler on other platforms, please send any code
corrections to <a href=
"mailto:torlack@torlack.com">torlack@torlack.com</a>.
However, please remember that I don't do non-Windows operating
systems. If you can't get the compiler to compile, I
can't provide any support.</p>
<p>Older versions of GCC seem to have problems with inline
functions. To just avoid this problem all together,
"<em>AM_CXXFLAGS = -fno-default-inline</em>" has been added to
the makefiles. This will hurt performance to a
degree.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Initial Linux port of the compiler by Francois Guimond
a.k.a. Erydan.<br>
Assistance with automake/autoconf and MacOS/X port by
Sumpfork</p>
<h3>About the Source</h3>
<p>The source is a VC7 (VS.NET) solution file. However,
all source code for the model compiler should be usable on a
more standard compiler platform. There are no "stdafx.h"
or "windows.h" includes excluding the main executable.
Even there, those includes are "#ifdef" protected and only used
for registry access. However, that doesn't mean the
software will build on a GCC system without modification.</p>
<p>NWN Explorer and NWN Treasure Editor both use ATL and
WTL. NWN Explorer also uses FMOD from <a href=
"http://www.fmod.org/">http://www.fmod.org/</a>. NWN
Script compiler uses the MSTA compiler compiler from the COCOM
tool set. The package can be downloaded from <a href=
"http://cocom.sourceforge.net/">http://cocom.sourceforge.net/</a>.</p>
<p>May C++ purists will have an aneurysm when they see some of
the code. To those I say, "deal with it." (OMG, HE
USED A GOTO!!!!!)</p>
<h3>Revisions</h3>
<h4>March 12th, 2003:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Blank statements after an if or else statement will now
generate a warning.</li>
<li>The compiler will automatically ignore requests to
include the same include file multiple times in a script
compilation.</li>
<li>With the non-Windows versions, if the path specified for
the NWN directory doesn't end in a "/", one will be
automatically added.</li>
<li>All the libraries and the model converter have been
converted to build with GCC.</li>
<li>Corrected a problem with the script decompiler regarding
the TALENT type.</li>
</ul>
<h4>April 23rd, 2003:</h4>
<ul>
<li>On GCC systems, the script compiler optimizer might throw
an assert. The code has been modified to prevent the
assert which was non-fatal in nature.</li>
<li>On some GCC systems, the basename routine is declared as
having a "char *" argument. The only place where this
caused a problem has been modified to force the type to "char
*". A future version will have a better fix for this
problem.</li>
<li>If a function declaration has more arguments than the
prototype, the compiler would fail to generate an
error. This would result in a compiled script that runs
the risk of generating "STACK UNDERFLOW" errors.</li>
<li>Corrected a bug in the script compiler that would fail to
generate an error when a function was called without enough
parameters.</li>
</ul>
<h4>July 1st, 2003:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added the new -v command line argument to the script
compiler. This allows for the compiler to compile files
using older compiler rules.</li>
<li>The script compiler now generates the new script debug
file (NDB).</li>
<li>A '.' (dot) in the input path which is not part of the
extension will no longer confuse the model and script
compiler.</li>
<li>The default directory for including script includes will
be the same directory as the input script.</li>
<li>The script decompiler now supports the new NOP
opcode.</li>
<li>Corrected a script compiler crash caused by some types of
syntax errors.</li>
<li>Increased the maximum size of a compiled script to 512k
to match BioWare maximum script size.</li>
<li>Added support for SoU key files.</li>
</ul>
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