Nebulous | Worldbuilding tool
Nebulous v4 (Alpha) is here!
Hey adventurers,
Nebulous v4 is finally here!
Keep in mind though, this is just the alpha testing phase. I've done a bunch of testing myself, but you cannot always foresee the sneaky issues likely to pop up on other machines. Sooo, the comments are enabled (as always) and I trust you will report the problems here - if you encounter any!
For our previous "Nebulous Enjoyers", newly published Nebulous v3.4.1 has a "Convert Save (v4)" function and will allow you to export your previous saves in Excel format (no longer requires Microsoft Office!) and then import into v4 (side note: Microsoft & Google office - No problem, Open & Libre Office - Not tested, but I think they'll also fare well).
As usual, you may find the sample universes both in .neb and .xlsx forms so you can quickly get warmed up.
There are quite a lot of new features and I will of course write an instruction manual of sorts, but for now you can just fiddle with it, why not! It is more fun to discover for yourselves afterall.
I guess, based on the responses (and my own continued testing), I'll get to the official release in 1-2 weeks.
Thanks and good luck!
Soydan
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Super cool to see this still going! Already giving v4 a go.
Trying to get use to the new setup. Really loving how there's no funky business with editing and windows user themes like in old versions.
Moving an old save up I've noticed entries not nested under their proper categories somehow. Also a way to set a default theme and layout across all entries would be nice, not sure if that is possible in the options yet.
Will keep fiddling around with this.
Hi skuddledudd (superfun to say btw :),
Since I revised the nesting logic, it was hard to be precise about converting old libraries. It used to seek common categories and automatically make them the top nest, but now it's just arbitrary (you may try Ctrl + dragging objects or Move/Insert functions btw). So a little housekeeping might be in order after the conversion, or you could arrange the Excel file so that it would import perfectly (the ParentID of the children needs to match with their parents ID).
In settings, you may set the "default" colors/fonts etc. and the new objects will be generated with these settings. However, currently it is not possible to change the settings for objects in bulk. In selection mode there's a few collective change options, I'll add this function there, it shouldn't be too hard.
Thank you for the quick (and encouraging) feedback!
Yep, just added a "Set object settings" function which is available when you are in Selection mode (Hint: Ctrl + Click to (de)select the whole nest)
Nice, that's pretty handy.
Dragging elements around in the layout is pretty weird right now too, I can't get some things to move to another column no matter what I try, and I had a bad near-minute long freeze for a while as I was messing around with it. Trying to get a page with two images in one column and a few text boxes in the other is impossible I think. Maybe.
Also I don't know if this is something just on my end but trackpad scrolling is way too sensitive in the program. Mouse scrolling is fine at least.
Alrighty, here goes:
Unfortunately touchpad sensitivity issue seems to be a shortcoming of the WPF framework, there are proposed solutions but it would take me quite a bit of work. Sooo, maybe stick to mouse for now :)
I hope these changes help!
Soydan