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MAKE YOUR MOBILES TALK

by Hazed

Right now you can't put truly mobile mobiles into Fed - that is, you can't make them move around under their own steam. That will come in the future. But you can make stationary mobiles like Diesel on Mars or Tracey on Phobos. (You could also do a stationery mobile made entirely out of envelopes and notepaper...)

And now you can make your mobiles talk.

There is a new release of the event editor with two new scripts that you use to provide conversation for a mobile. Using this new facility you can make your mobile as chatty as Diesel. The editor is, as always, accompanied by a new version of the Advanced Workbench manual that explains how to use the new scripts to write a mobile conversation. It doesn't just give you the technical information about using the scripts, it also teaches you how to write the dialog for your mobile, explains the kinds of things he/she/it should talk about, and gives you interesting twists on conversations with mobiles.

You can download the new event editor here.

The new version of the manual is here.

Note that Alan is still working on the new version of Tesla that will check these scripts; it will be coming soon.

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