So along with my 3000th post on the Ambrosia Software forums being an Xsera progress post a few days ago, I decided to post an update on the most recent happenings in Xsera (including the fruits of some arduous labor even today).
Firstly, I'm working on wrapping up some of the most basic features of the interface - namely, those tutorial boxes and messages that popped up from time to time in the original Ares. I've even got the blinking pointer part working. I'm also working on polishing up the interface, especially the side panels, in order to make it look better as a whole, and also to address Xsera working on different aspect ratios and resolutions. It's good stuff!
Second, I've been creating some neat little tools that allow me to do some fancy text manipulation - although it's stuff that we take for granted, like text wrapping in lines. Today I finalized the primary wrapping function, and it appears to limit the text fairly well.
Third, I've been working on a special way of building Xsera called "symbolic linking". All this means is that I can edit Lua scripts in Xcode and see them update in the Xsera application without rebuilding the app. This is a huge time saver - although it did cost me about 4 hours today, it will save me, and the other devs, a great amount of time in the future.
Sure, these recent updates are fairly technical things that don't really show any improvement moving towards a Demo 3, but polishing Xsera up a little bit right now will make things that much easier in the end.
That's all for now!
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