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Aside from hair and nails, I'm putting in teeth, skulls, ribs, teeth, noses, ears, tongues, horns, tusks and tails...  The somewhat unfortunate fact is that because humans are currently defined only by a simple structure and a random number seed (it specifies them as sentient "average"-sized humanoid omnivores), they will have any number of these new growths.  I haven't done descriptions yet, but soon we'll see if the current human random number seed generates humans with horns and long red bristly hair sparsely covering their entire bodies...  he he he...  I hope they're playable, or at least not disgusting.  The species editor will fix this problem, but that is six releases down the road.

I'm working on the reptiles now.  Of course, now that I'm actually using my new motif editor for something, the little bugs start creeping through.  Nothing major yet...  when I tried to give the reptiles the possibility of having forked tongues, that was fine, but when I tried to tell it to make the tongue fork near the tip of the tongue, it made the tongue narrower instead.  Things like that...  I'm sure that won't be the last one of these to crop up...

On the upside, there aren't any major challenges left.  I just need to find a little time (2-3 days?  a little more?), then I'll release.

There won't be a topic on the 5th editor, because I just finished it.

All I have to do now is the stock creature editor.

Well, I've finished 1 of 13 motif sub-editors.  That leaves 12!  I'm on a roll!  Yeah!

• General Statistics: Done
  
• Form List: Not Done
  
• Physical Attributes: Not Done
  
• Material Specs: Not Done
  
• Growth Definitions: Not Done
  
• Building Blocks: Not Done
  
• Body Components: Not Done
  
• Alterations: Not Done
  
• Caste Systems: Not Done
  
• Extra Body Parts: Not Done
  
• Tracts: Not Done
  
• Clusters: Not Done
  
• Relations: Not Done
  

[ June 17, 2002: Message edited by: Toady One ]

The creature form editor is done.  Now you can expand on the notions of "humanoid" and "quadruped".

Some unfortunate things have come up (not just Christmas), and I have to leave for the rest of the month.  I should have some opportunities to draw up the interface pictures while I'm away, but this place will continue to be quiet for a few more weeks.  Oh well.  That's how it goes.

I'm done with everything that needed doing regarding school this quarter.  I should be able to finish things up smoothly now.  I'm hoping to get done with the first editor today and move on from there.  I'm going to be teaching calculus during the summer, which will eat up some time, but that doesn't start for a few weeks.