I'm not talking about what is already available. I am talking about what isn't available. What quest objectives are actually something we can use? Is the xml `objective type=*` all we have in quests.xml? are there more? Just a small example. Please give us more information.
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I"m not trying to dis the mod community at all. Maybe my previous previous post sounded like that. No one ever explained how Spere knew about xpath mods. Lots of people are confused how xpath even "became a thing" so yes. "Insider info" is an issue.
And its fine if I get blacklisted for asking this very question. I don't really care. I want answers to everything always because I care about the game and how it moves forward which is with modders.
I don't really care if folks decide to down vote my mod for simply asking basic questions. I expect basic responses from the devs proper and not just some "golden boy" modder who is friends with the devs. I'm not gonna take away any skills from anyone who mods but, why is the "official" xpath thread by a non-TFP dev?
Minus rep me all you want, its a question the non-inner circle has. Period.
What are you talking about, downvotes or whatever? Golden boy modder? What? Be clear.
Sphereii took the initiative to document Xpath, because he's just that awesome. He and xyth were *already* documenting sdx, so it made sense to him to document xpath as well.
It was not insider information, it was initiative.
There is no inner circle, but cream does rise to the top.
He's humble, but Sphereii is probably the best programmer out of ALL of the modders, except maybe Hal and Morte, so it makes total sense they would speak to one another... Because they can speak on levels the rest of us plebes just simply wouldn't understand.
I've no clue where you got your tin foil hat from, but there is no conspiracy, and no inner circle; just like minded people getting together doing like minded things.
Nothing more.
Xpath isn't some mysterious knowledge, it's a real thing, that exists in the real world. Sphereii happens to know it (and many other things), so he volunteered to write a tutorial.
And look how much modding has taken off as a result. He's fracking Oz.
It's only "official" because it's correct, and because it has the name in the title. No pimp said "hey, write this".
Hal is listed in the credits, but is he tfp? No. He's a guy who took the initiative to do something no one else did, that helped the community and the game (block converter from a14 to a15 I think?).
No conspiracy. No "inside knowledge". Just modders, being proactive.
Alloc was a modder once. Did the dedicated server tools.
Gazz was a modder once. Did a huge amount of tutorials on block si.
You want insider info? Do something awesome.
Like they did.
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