First off: A happy new year to everyone! I know it´s a little bit late by February but since this is my first blog entry in 2011: Happy New Year!

So and now let´s get back to business!

The Modding Suite

Last and latest news was that I dropped the project back in November 2010. And I picked it up by December 22th 2010

Since then I fixed my errors and the bugs I encountered, I also asked Cyrem to create a new Interface layout for the Modding Suite.

In January Cyrem delivered the new Interface and I was able to reach the next milestone. The new Modding Suite supports MySQL Database Access as well as RSS Feeds for Community Updates. For all the changes please read the attached Change log file.

Due to some timing problems the Change log file isn´t up to date but it will give you an overview of my progress!

By today I reached my first milestone: Providing a working Database File Access solution.

This means the Modding Suite can access the Rock Raiders United Mod Database and give you access to all the uploaded Mods.

Map Creator, CFG Editor as well as WAD Tool integration are also working great. I am soon going to integrate other tools as well, if you have created a tool you want to see in the Modding Suite please feel free to drop me a PM.

The next milestone: Integrating the new Interface as well as providing different Skins.

It seems like a quick and easy design task but actually it represents very difficult decisions concerning the Interface. Therefore I am planning to provide two different layouts. One Layout for the beginners to provide easy access and one for experienced users with access to other modding features. Both layouts will have a User Profile page which provides information about your uploaded Mods, download stats etc.

The time plan: There is no plan... Well there is but I already reached my deadlines twice so I won´t say I am going to release it at a certain date, this time I am heading for an 'it´s done when it´s done!" approach. (Just remembering that I actually planned to release the new version on December 24th! )

That´s it for now! -- Just wanted to let you know that I am working on it... again!

Edit: I deleted the Changelog File as it seems it got corrupted during the upload process. I will upload a new one with the next milestone post.