[crossfire] Call for suggestions: CRE

[Nicolas Weeger]

Hello.

I've been lately toying with and improving the CRE tool (in server/utils/cre), 
and I'm wondering what features people would be interested in.

Current features:
- displays all archetypes, formulae, maps, animations, faces, treasure lists, 
artifacts
- for each archetype, displays full details, and use in maps, treasure lists
- for formulae, almost all details
- for maps, exits to and from the map
- for animations, which archetype(s) use them
- for faces, use by animation and archetype
- for treasure lists, details of a list, and what archetype(s) or treasure 
list use them
- for artifacts, some details
- report generation - for now not that powerful, and needs documentation, but 
you can generate a list of monsters by level for instance ;)
- map information cache, so no need to rescan all >2500 maps each time


Basically, I have two large improvement areas:
- report generation, in various formats, for various things ; ultimately, it 
could be possible to totally customize a report (both contents and output)
- edition, of archetypes, artifacts, anything (except maps - Gridarta does 
that nicely :)) ; this would make it easier to customize the game or 
contribute content


Both those areas are interesting, and I may tackle them anyway, but I was 
wondering if people had nice ideas I didn't think of :)



Note that the tool will probably not work under Windows (or Mac?) for now. I'm 
using Qt (C++ toolkit) which is itself cross-platform, but I still link to the 
common Crossfire library (in C), which needs to be built beforehand - and I'm 
not sure how Windows would handle the libraries formats and such.



Nicolas
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