Dom3Editor 1.1 released Thread - Dominions 3: The Awakening

To celebrate the release of Dominions on Desura, I would like to announce the latest release of the Dominions 3 mod editing tool dom3editor (version 1.1). For those who don't know this is a visual editor for .dm files that includes many features of a modern integrated development environment included syntax coloring, code completion, error checking, integrated help and an overview mode where you won't have to write a single line of code if you don't want to. The major changes in this release are:

1. Performance improvements. Mods will load, save and edit quicker (especially very large mods like CBM).
2. Updated database. The default values for objects in the game have been updated from the latest data from momfreeeks Dom3 mod inspector.
3. Description text now included. All of the descriptions from the game are now included as default for units, items and spells. This makes it much easier to make small tweaks to descriptions.
4. Added helpers for setting path, school and type fields. You no longer have to remember the number for Astral, just chose Astral in the dropdown. Also added easier editing to the itemmask field for units so you no longer have to do bitmask calculations. There are more of these to be added.
5. Updated the PDF mod documentation generation. This is still a work in progress. My goal is to create nice documentation that can be printed out (and isn't too unwieldy). For a small mod you could create a document for the whole mod. For a large mod like CBM you could print out a Nation manual that just includes the changes to that nation.
6. Fixes for minor bugs that I found while adding the above.

Here are some screenshots to give you an idea. This first one is editing the CBM1.94 "Storm Knight". You can see the description and some of the attirbutes of the new unit. The second screenshot is the source view of the same unit.

There are versions of this tool for Windows, Linux and Mac. If you already have the tool installed, you can just download the patch file and exteact it into your dom3editor directory (files should go in the plugin directory). All this can be downloaded from:

Code.google.com

There is a wiki with some description of using the tool here:

Code.google.com

This is an open source project, so the source is available from the Google code location above.

Edited by: Larzm42

awsome job and tool

Any chance of getting a version of this for Dominions 4?

Can not be used for Dominions 4

AImler wrote: Any chance of getting a version of this for Dominions 4?

Yes, I am working on a Dom 4 version. The parsing and mod creation is complete. I am just waiting on the dom4db to get all of the data embedded into the app.