I just wanted to drop in and say hello. I just stumbled across this site/application and I wish I’d have found this long ago!!
What a great application! I’m going to buy this today.
Anyway, I was wondering if the latest build is still planned to be deployed. I’m extremely interested in the features and have projects that could immediately benefit from this. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
By the way, kudos to the developer of this tool. It is very slick and produces extremely useful maps! Thanks!
Welcome! Yes, it is a nice and usefull application!.. Obviously, once you get to know it, you’ll also start to see that it could do even more, and that is why it is in constant development… I do have to warn though, that the development is not fast… Stephen Schmitt (aka Remnant) is the brain and muscle behind WM, and he also has a normal life to attend to :). WM has gone from v.95 almost to v1.0 in 4 years!. Anyway, you are lucky to be just in time for v1.0… The only thing I can say about it is that it is coming very soon, as mostly only the documentation and solving minor bugs is missing.
Please feel free to browse this forum for all types of questions and answers…
WM .85 was the first public release, and that happened in February of 2002.
There were 3 more intermediate releases until WM .99 was released in early 2003.
Then, uh, life happened.
Anyways, 1.0 is on track to be released very soon. Other than a couple small bugs, code is completed and I’m just polishing the documentation.
Thanks for your kudos and comments; knowing that people find WM useful is a principal driver for its continued development.
Sweet! Thanks for keeping us up to date. I’m starting to get the hang of the tool and it has a very nice interface. Very slick for just one developer!
Also, as a very geeky side note. I’m a cough Dungeon Master cough for a long time group of D&D guys and this tool came in quite handy for a custom map I needed. Nerdy I know but I thought I’d toss in a quick note on how WM was used in perhaps a more non-traditional use. My crew was successful at following the conture of a large fissure in the dessert to avoid alerting the Desert Orc patrol! Ha!
Well, as a matter of fact, I did meet a woman who demanded a large portion of my time But that’s neither here nor there…
Having an even larger bearing was the fact that I graduated from College and got a full time job that left me with little time for World Machine development. I decided to move on from that job this last spring, and have spent the last 4 months or so working on WM nearly fulltime to get it to v1.0.
Hopefully the long lull with nothing happening, and then the sudden spurt of lots of progress, can be explained a bit better after knowing this.
But that’s neither here nor there…