EDITOR screenshot - Preview at cgonline.com

[yin26]

Thanks, Mike. Any feedback on the time stamp idea so you don't have to explain this kind of stuff?

[Keygen]

Originally posted by yin26
The road ARE behind the mountains in this shot...and if this is STILL an old screen being shown at PREVIEW time, well...

Markos: The cirularity of the railroads in particular seems odd.

It looks like some tiles are having both road and railroad. Strange...

The Editor looks promising and off the game, as an extra utility indeed.
Maybe it could be an advanced editor that accompanies a more simple in-game editor, who knows...

[Buck Birdseed]

I think the editor looks very promising. This screen has the right mix of complexity and straight-forward ease of use... I'm itching to see what's behind the "Building Types" tab.

[FrostyBoy]

The tree's are different in the final!?!?

GREAT!!

Hey Dan, how about you snap a screenshot from the game as it stands now, so we can see!

[Fidel]

the editor really looks interesting...too bad we cannot see all the things behind the anarchy screen
anyway, yummy

[hexagonian]

Gotta say that the Editor looks easy to use, in terms of editing existing files.

The question is ''How easy will it be to add new governments/units/techs???''

[Blacksurf]

Originally posted by hexagonian
Gotta say that the Editor looks easy to use, in terms of editing existing files.

The question is ''How easy will it be to add new governments/units/techs???''

I'd guess pretty easy - notice the add/remove buttons at the top right. These will be used to add or remove new governments. Techs and units would be different. you could quite easily change the "numbers" for these things but not the graphics (although maybe you can). Also for techs the whole tech tree would need to be dynamic so I guess that modifying these is probably not implemented.

[Robert]

the editor really looks interesting...too bad we cannot see all the things behind the anarchy screen

too bad it's not an interactive screenshot

[izmircali]

Editor screen hopes

I can only hope that the Add and Delete buttons are present on all the tabs. Especially units, terrain types, building types, techs...

[Ozymandous]

Hmm, I wonder how linked the editor is? In other words, if you add a government will it prompt you to say what technology gives this government type? Same goes with a new unit, etc. It would be very akward if you had to go hunt for all this and change it bit by bit as opposed to being able to edit it all linked together.

Let's hope the folks at Firaxis thought of this.

[SITS]

Originally posted by yin26
Thanks, Mike. Any feedback on the time stamp idea so you don't have to explain this kind of stuff?

I agree with your idea in principle but I suspect the TIMEstamp won't work as the magazines won't want to publish something that says it is at least 2 months out of date. Instead it might be an idea to have a VERSIONstamp instead ie v0.84 so we can see where it comes from and the magazine wouldn't have to show how slow they are.

[MarkG]

a critical question of course is if civ3 is multiple-mod-friendly, e.g:
a) each mod/scenario having it's own folder with it's modified game files
b) civ3 being able to open the scenario and load the modified game files

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Ozymandous
Hmm, I wonder how linked the editor is? In other words, if you add a government will it prompt you to say what technology gives this government type

There is a "Prerequisite" drop-down box on the left. I would think this would be for selecting the Tech required. Obviously Anarchy is "None".

[Sabre2th]

BTW: the animal near the middle; is that a cow? I would think it was a horse, but it looks like a cow...

It's a horse for sure.

[Wernazuma III]

Wow, that editor screenshot is incredible!! It's what I dreamed off. It was almost a sexual experience to see this...