Mator Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 I have created a survey on modding tools and APIs to get ideas for zEdit, a modding tool I am building off of the xEdit framework. zEdit will be an Electron application built with AngularJS with a similar feature set to xEdit, with some improvements: A modern, customizable GUI A robust package system An automated patching system to replace SkyProc/SUM Integrated tools for automating simple tasks This survey is to get an idea of what other modding tools and APIs do well, and what they could do better. The information gathered through this survey will be used to design and develop zEdit. Survey Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beermotor Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 Sounds very interesting. Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by "a robust packaging system"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mator Posted August 5, 2017 Author Share Posted August 5, 2017 8 hours ago, Beermotor said: Sounds very interesting. Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by "a robust packaging system"? I mean a system which lets other developers create packages of code and assets which can modify/add to any part of the application, which users can download and install. A "moddable modding tool", so to say. Beermotor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beermotor Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 3 hours ago, Mator said: I mean a system which lets other developers create packages of code and assets which can modify/add to any part of the application, which users can download and install. A "moddable modding tool", so to say. I've been casually following the work you've been doing with xedit-lib and it sounds like it is all coming together now. That sounds like a fantastic idea actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt3rn1ty Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 We need to log in to google to do this ? I would have really liked to contribute to this particular survey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mator Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 On 8/5/2017 at 2:25 AM, Beermotor said: I've been casually following the work you've been doing with xedit-lib and it sounds like it is all coming together now. That sounds like a fantastic idea actually. Thank you. On 8/9/2017 at 0:37 AM, alt3rn1ty said: We need to log in to google to do this ? I would have really liked to contribute to this particular survey The reason the google login is required is twofold: 1. To prevent a single person from submitting multiple responses. 2. So you can go back and edit your response if you change your mind/decide to add something to it later. The responses are still anonymous - I don't get any information on what google account a particular response is associated with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireundubh Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 On 8/13/2017 at 11:41 AM, Mator said: The responses are still anonymous - I don't get any information on what google account a particular response is associated with. alt3rn1ty probably just doesn't want to opt into the Google intelligence network, or support Google after the diversity manifesto thing. *shrug* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mator Posted August 16, 2017 Author Share Posted August 16, 2017 On 8/15/2017 at 0:47 AM, fireundubh said: alt3rn1ty probably just doesn't want to opt into the Google intelligence network, or support Google after the diversity manifesto thing. *shrug* He can always create a throwaway google account, sign in in a private browsing session, and then clear cookies. It's certainly a fair bit of effort to respond to a simple survey, but that's how it is for now. I've already received a ton more feedback than I can adequately process. As much as I do appreciate more feedback, I'm not interested in lifting the restriction so that a few dozen more people can respond because they don't have and don't want to make a google account. It's not a good trade-off for me when the downsides include the potential of people flooding the survey with duplicate or spam responses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RavenMind Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 I completely understand your position. You REALLY should get alt3rn1ty's input though. Maybe via PM, or something, in this one particular case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mator Posted August 17, 2017 Author Share Posted August 17, 2017 On 8/9/2017 at 0:37 AM, alt3rn1ty said: We need to log in to google to do this ? I would have really liked to contribute to this particular survey I created a copy of the survey which does not require a google account to respond to. If this copy of the survey gets spammed I won't be looking at the responses, so hopefully that won't happen. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3nlg9QuXDr5674ABcjv1M1pLbw_Yy7h3VVhhfdUrgErxdMA/viewform?usp=sf_link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mator Posted September 6, 2017 Author Share Posted September 6, 2017 Check out this video from GamerPoets for an overview of the survey results: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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