Dominus and the rest of the Exult team are looking for a bit of help from someone with programming savvy (and familiarity with XML):

Exult had a simple way to automatically fill the notebook (press ‘n’) with notes when a game flag was set. This involved putting a text file in the static folder. But no longer! Recently I added this feature to the files Exult comes with and made it an option in the “Misc Options” to toggle autonotes.

The part we need help with is that the autonotes need some more love, meaning people who know the plot and will write some small text for these flags.

To see what I mean:

• For BG, download this file
• For SI, download this file

The format is quite simple:
– the number of the flag (can be hex or decimal):text
– the # symbol is used to comment

When people want to test this, they can override the bundled autonotes and set the path to their own. (See here!)

Example:

<game>
 <blackgate>
  <path>
  path_to/blackgate
  </path>
  <autonotes> **set path to a custom autonotes file or leave the (default)
  path_to/autonotes.txt
  </autonotes>

Unfortunately we do not have that many named flags for BG and the design docs posted some time ago do not seem to give the in game flag numbers.

And we could use any spare programmer anyway.

So, as noted above, if you feel comfortable working with code and XML, and if you need a spare-time project, why not volunteer to help the Exult team out?

Dominus also passed along this tidbit of Exult news:

In other news, we fixed some serious potential crashes, added the option to move with single right click…and Marzo added the wonderful BR scaler. Think of the HQ scaler, but with less information lost. Something you have got to see 🙂

Also, Marzo attempted to fix some of the “sitting in the air” bugs, but that hasn’t completely worked out yet.

Well, it seems I’m going to have to download the latest Exult snapshot and give the new scaler a try!