Month: February 2015

IFography #2 Released

IFography #2 - March 2015
IFography #2 – March 2015

Another issue of IFography has been released and is available at:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mvezczoz8314uxu/IFography%202-2015.pdf?dl=0

Articles in this issue include

++ Interview with Ryan Veeder, author of Taco Fiction and Captain Verdeterre’s Plunder.
++ The World of IF – how you can help fellow IF enthusiasts.
++ Tools section – Update on the newly released version of Trizbort by your truly.
++ Reviews, News and more

This is turning into a nice little magazine put together by fellow enthusiasts.  Thanks to the editors Matt Goh and Marshal Tenner Winter for putting together.  And a special thanks for a job well done goes out to Robert Patten for all his design work he did on this issue.

Trizbort Update

coloredmapMost of you are at least somewhat familiar with the mapping tool Trizbort, created by Genstein. Back in 2013, on this thread (viewtopic.php?f=38&t=7473) he announced his decision to opensource the code. Then in March 2014, on the same thread, forum user wertle, made some updates (which turned out to be pretty useful) and fixed a few bugs. Then nothing, there seemed to be little movement on new development. This last December, I asked my writing group if they felt there would be interest in making some updates. I received some great encouragement and Andrew Schultz (aschultz) specifically stepped up with some great ideas and feature requests. So work began.

Today I’m announcing a new beta release. I incorporated a few other branches that were made (including those from wertle) and many suggestions from Andrew, who became the primary tester. Main new features include:

What’s New?

  • Copy and paste (from wertle’s branch)
  • Fix for large maps (from wertle’s branch)
  • Support for Regions – You can specify room colors in any case, but regions make it easy and allow you to group rooms together.
  • SmartSave – quick shortcut to save PDF & default image type to base directory.
  • Join room – shortcut to join two selected rooms based on position on map.
  • Many updates and fixes in the export of code (regions only supported in I7 export)
  • UI enhancements – Beginning to add context menus, tooltips on rooms, improvements on keyboard functionality and shortcuts
  • Quite a few bugfixes.

Where to get it?SetRoomRegion

Link to zip file: http://bit.ly/trizbortjl

Simply unzip the file to a folder and run the executable (make sure all files included in the zip file are in the executable’s folder).

Andrew and I are making plans for more features and improvements so please if you have ideas let us know. You can also check out our bug / feature tracking at http://lautzofif.myjetbrains.com

Andrew is currently working on updating the documentation (with the blessing of Genstein) and he has put up a draft at https://www.dropbox.com/s/x85lk5dpkie7d … shtml?dl=0 and is of course open to suggestions to improve the documentation (still working on getting images updated).

If you’re so inclined you can see the source at https://github.com/JasonLautzenheiser/trizbort

Again, remember this is beta software. Please let us know of any bugs that you find or features you think will be useful.