Monster Editor

As of today, March 15, 2008 the release of the final version of the monster editor is available.

(Any updates or fixes will be made on this thread)

Saturday, April 5, 2008 8:26PM PST

Advanced Installer exe (Rapidshare.com)(4127 KB)
MonsterEditor.exe

Installer includes:
-Runtime libraries
-CreatureXML.exe
-Extensions
------ creatures.xml
------ effects.xml
------ items.xml
------ items.otb
------ materials.xml
------ races.xml
------ shots.xml
------ spells.xml
------ template.xml
------ stylesheet.qss

Copy/Pasting objects:
Only one type of object can be copied at a time, so if you cut, then copy something else, the cut item is gone.
Pasting overtop of an object will prompt you to overwrite it, or create a new entry

Adding and or Deleting: Spells, Summons, Loot, Speech
Simply click in, or on an item in the section and press the 'Insert' or
'Delete' button on your keyboard, on the toolbar, or in the menu.

Editing: Loot, Summons, Speech
Select the object, then click once on the entry you want to edit, when your finished press enter to change the entry.
(Similar process to renaming a file without right-clicking)

Editing: Spells
Self explanitory process, double click the entry you wish to change.
If there is a spell not on the list you wish to use, ENSURE its on the
list, or copy your servers spell file into the extensions folder before
beginning.

Drag and Drop capabilities:
-Items from the items section can be dropped to the following areas:
----Loot
----Item Appearance
----Corpse
-Items from the loot section can ONLY be dropped onto other items in the section
-Creatures from the creature section can be dropped to the following areas:
-----Summons
-----Looktype

Using the Manual Editor:
The manual editor is a simple notepad style editor that allows the user to make quick, or repetitive changes
Note: This editor does not save directly to xml format, saving will take the XML data and load your changes into the editor.

Overview of CreaturesXML.exe
This application is used to merge Remere's extension files
creatures.xml
better_creatures.xml
And providing your monsters directory will dump a file called
"dumpcreatures.xml" this file is named "creatures.xml" in the extension
folder and contains specific looktype data on monsters loaded by the
editor to create the "Creature" list

Overview of Materials.xml
This file is the same as Simone's editor, a tag at the beginning was included:
'filter' a boolean that is either 1 or 0, this tag will show only items
that you can pick up, not a recommended tag if you want to look for a
corpse to drag into the lookcorpse

Overview of Shots.xml, Races.xml, and Effects.xml
These are generally self explanitory files, meant for further
customization of custom dat files or spr (DO NOT USE DUPLICATE ENTRIES)

Overview of Template.xml
This file is loaded everytime the editor is started or a new monster is
started, the supplied template is not recommended because the
attributes it has are not from scratch, and could cause you to make
mistakes. Delete this file, or create a more 'blank' template.

Please report any found bugs IN DETAIL

By BlackDemon

Wow! i going to use it

edit
damn the link doesnt work :S


ps: Please use the EDIT button instead of posting again. Careful to not get a warning.
C ya

Nop. bruce the link doesn't work.
Anyway, it looks pretty good^^

Link fixed.
Enjoy.

C ya

This the newest ver of BD's Monstermaker?

Yes, the old link was broken, so I got the newest one.

Thanks, might not needed, but it's useful when it does.