Hi again,

no this is not an entry facing the developement of a total mod, I am really sad to admit this but currently I don´t have time to work on my own mod. Guess what? ... I am totally driven by the wish to complete my new challenge: The Lego Rock Raiders Modding Suite!

You may have noticed the developement of the Lego Rock Raiders Mod Manager. I learned a lot by it´s developement but I am not satisfied with it.

The LRRMM uses FTP to upload files to the library without additional information, so I sat down to rewrite it again and came up with a new solution: Database.

Well it wasn´t easy to implent the Database routines for opening, reading, writing, saving and closing a database but I managed to create first successful moments on my local database server.

Next testings will be with the official server but that will need more time since the configuration for every server is based uppon it´s ISP and ADMIN.

So why do I call the tool now the Lego Rock Raiders Modding Suite?

Well let me explain this a littlebit more.

As I announced that I will create a databased version of the LRRMM with a plugin system scíguy contacted me to tell me I don´t need to write my own CFG Editor (because I was thinking about writing one) instead I could use his editor.

I am really greatfull that I agreed! Less work and more time to focus on other parts!

So I thought with the CFG Editor, the Manager and propably Cyrems Map Editor we could build up a Modding Suite.

So we called it Modding Suite and these are the currently features: (I will update this list by the time we change it )

• MySQL Database support
  
• FTP Support
  
• Map Creator (by Cyrem)
  
• CFG Editor (by sciguy)
  
• Mod Manager
  
• Mod Updater
  
• Mod Installer
  
• Plugin Support
  

So far the major changes.

The minor changes are:

• Patch Creator (for updated mods)
  
• Description for your Mod
  
• Screenshots for your Mod
  
• Categorized Mod Search and Storage
  
• Mod Types (CFG Mod, Level Mod, Graphic Mod, Overhaul Mod)
  
• Easy Plugin System to plugin your own tools
  
• Settings panel to change the system settings
  
• Mod System Installer (to keep track which mod is installed, and safe mods locally without the need to redownload them)
  

That´s it for now. As you can see this is a bunch of features and it will take me a lot of time and even more coffes to write everything of this, but for now I am not alone anymore

Now working with me are Cyrem and sciguy and of course the community

Cheers! And see you later!