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May 20, 2002, 10:26pm

Bioware (http://nwn.bioware.com) has made its online world-building toolset
available for free download. This is a sample of the toolset that will come
with the Neverwinter Nights game this summer.

NWN will be playable as an offline single-player game or as an online
multiplayer world for up to 64 players (there will be no monthly fee for
using your worldserver and you can choose who and how many to admit to your
world).

I've been playing with the toolset since it came out over the weekend, and
it is amazingly easy to use, especially for AW citizens. The sample toolset
has a vast number of terrain tiles, buildings, avatars, clothing, movable
objects, etc., and it only covers Rural and Crypt building (Forest, City,
etc., will be revealed in the game set). That Bioware site has FAQ's, a
Toolset Forum, News, and Links to the numerous fan sites (like
http://www.neverwintervault.com). World builders will be able to set up
teleports to their friends' world (no universe fee either, just pay once for
the game).

Check it out. Bioware is the maker of the bestseller Baldur's Gate
role-playing game series. But.....AW world builders can just use the
Neverwinter Toolset to build their own worlds and link into a universe of
AW-like worlds.

May 21, 2002, 12:02am

Oh christ, it's on file planet. File planet should be taken out to the
country, given a shovel to dig a grave, then shot in the back of the head
into the grave. Unfortunatly it's a file download system (well file waiting
around to download if you can manage to login and such) and not a person so
that won't be happening any time soon.

Let me know if the beta toolkit is put somewhere where you don't have to pay
or set up some sort of spam account to use.

May 21, 2002, 12:49am

[View Quote] Hey baro, there are a lot of free download sites that are listed in the
Toolset Forum at Bioware's site. (Also be sure to go to the Forum to find
pix of the cool stuff users have been creating in the last couple of days.)

I got the entire download from
http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/neverwinternights/Thirdparty/nwn_tools_beta
..exe.html and it was both free and quick. If you want to get the download in
13 separate d/l segments (it's 250MB altogether), go to
http://nwvault.ign.com/index2.shtml and get them all for free. (While you're
there check out the samples and builder suggestions on the site.)

May 21, 2002, 12:56am

What is this for

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May 21, 2002, 1:18am

[View Quote] If you mean, why post about that here? It's something to look forward to,
if AWCom goes out of business and we all lose the online player-built worlds
we care about.

It also shows why charging a monthly fee for visiting player-built worlds
online, to say nothing of charging ever-bigger fees for running them on a
world server, is going to be utterly noncompetitive.

May 21, 2002, 1:25am

In a galaxy far far away, known as community, an identify claiming to
be known as "canopus" <canopus-aek2 at email.msn.com> scribed the
following:
[View Quote] Player built worlds? Since when was AW a game?

,,,,,
(o o)
/--------------ooO--(_)--Ooo--------------\
| Anduin (317281) |
| o The Gorean Scribe |
| o http://www.anduin-lothario.com |
| o It wasn't me, it was the one I'm in! |
\--------------ooO-------Ooo--------------/

May 21, 2002, 1:29am

Thought this was something to model.

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May 21, 2002, 3:08am

It is.

With the toolset, you build the world, including the people and creatures
who live in it, and script how they will respond to the players who visit it
online. When the Neverwinter Nights game comes out (in June?), you'll get
the complete toolset, plus the means to run the world you build from your
own server, where friends or other players can visit you. Bioware is letting
people get acquainted with the world-building process. Read about it all on
the website.

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May 21, 2002, 3:29am

[View Quote] To the role-playing entity purporting to be one Anduin-Lothario:

The toolset makes it possible to script the bots so that the visitors to
your world can play roles and interact with your bots, like characters in a
story.
****OR****
The toolset makes it possible to script the bots so that the visitors to
your world see moving people and other creatures in it. Background: like the
inn, the millpond, the trees, and the sunset. This is not a game, just a
setting, though possibly more realistic than AW's settings.

You can choose either way to use the toolset.

--The real Canopus, visitor to imaginary worlds

May 21, 2002, 3:43pm

"baro" <baronjutter at shaw.ca> wrote in
news:3ce9aab5$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> Oh christ, it's on file planet. File planet should be taken out to
> the country, given a shovel to dig a grave, then shot in the back of
> the head into the grave. Unfortunatly it's a file download system
> (well file waiting around to download if you can manage to login and
> such) and not a person so that won't be happening any time soon.
>
> Let me know if the beta toolkit is put somewhere where you don't have
> to pay or set up some sort of spam account to use.

You don't have to pay, they've got "public" servers too, that you can use
freely, scroll down on the download page... Even though I agree, Fileplanet
is an annoying thing, and it's very easy to miss that they have free
servers as well when they highlight their paid services like they do...

KAH

May 21, 2002, 4:42pm

The public servers are useless. I've never seen a wait time less than 30
min. Any other download site you click, and download. No weird waiting in
line


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May 21, 2002, 6:20pm

"baro" <baronjutter at shaw.ca> wrote in
news:3cea94fd at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> The public servers are useless. I've never seen a wait time less than
> 30 min. Any other download site you click, and download. No weird
> waiting in line

I guess there may be more people on there during US peak times, didn't have
to wait long here. What I don't get is why do people upload their files to
it when to get decent download servers, their users have to pay...

KAH

Jun 2, 2002, 8:30pm

Heehee. This summer? Been hearing that for a few years now...

[View Quote] > Bioware (http://nwn.bioware.com) has made its online world-building toolset
> available for free download. This is a sample of the toolset that will come
> with the Neverwinter Nights game this summer.
>
> NWN will be playable as an offline single-player game or as an online
> multiplayer world for up to 64 players (there will be no monthly fee for
> using your worldserver and you can choose who and how many to admit to your
> world).
>
> I've been playing with the toolset since it came out over the weekend, and
> it is amazingly easy to use, especially for AW citizens. The sample toolset
> has a vast number of terrain tiles, buildings, avatars, clothing, movable
> objects, etc., and it only covers Rural and Crypt building (Forest, City,
> etc., will be revealed in the game set). That Bioware site has FAQ's, a
> Toolset Forum, News, and Links to the numerous fan sites (like
> http://www.neverwintervault.com). World builders will be able to set up
> teleports to their friends' world (no universe fee either, just pay once for
> the game).
>
> Check it out. Bioware is the maker of the bestseller Baldur's Gate
> role-playing game series. But.....AW world builders can just use the
> Neverwinter Toolset to build their own worlds and link into a universe of
> AW-like worlds.

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