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Neverwinter Nights Tidbits

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hack-slash-and-recall dept.

WWWWolf writes "The fine folks at Bioware have opened a new For Developers section, aimed for people who make external tools for the game. At the moment they have a forum and description of one of the crucial file formats, used for packaging data in the game, with more coming." This looks pretty cool. It's been several months since I loaded up the Aurora Toolset. I might have to get back into it again. In related news, Apostata writes "It seems there's even more steam under the lid of the NWN Linux community now: the Linux client won't be shipping with any ability to play the narrative cutaway movies between chapters, due to licensing/porting problems with Bink. Many are outraged, as this obviously makes for an incomprehensible game." Apostata also notes that the Aurora toolset also won't be ported.

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  1. Untrue by eviltypeguy · · Score: 4, Informative

    "While this sucks, it should be said in BioWare's defense that a Linux port was not originally planned. Bink was a fine choice at the time--it's not BioWare's fault that they're pioneers in the Linux retail gaming market. Instead, fault Bink for not having their shit together."

    This is completely untrue. They had mentioned and "planned" a Linux port, years before the client came out. Look here:

    http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?Art ic leID=2195

    They mentioned it as early as 2001!!!

  2. Linux Installer by termos · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Linux client at Bioware's webpage requires you to first install the files with the windows installer and replace some files, not sure which ones.
    If you don't bother all this you can download a graphical GTK+ installer from here, make sure you have support for Joilet.

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  3. Aurora was never planned. by moosesocks · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you've read the bioware site and message boards, they never promised that they'd port Aurora. In fact, I remember them saying a LONG time ago that they would not port Aurora, as it would require them to strip many of the useful features out of both versions of Aurora, and rewrite the toolkit from scratch. NWN for the mac will also not include the toolset.

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