Contact Info

To report problems or make suggested enhancements, please contact Jim Adam.

Acknowledgements

GenMod creates content for Morrowind, a copyrighted and trademarked product of Bethesda Softworks.

Thanks to Blockhead, who has helped with the design of GenMod from version 2.5 on, including the design of new creatures, containers, lights, decorators, fog--all of which would have been much less flexible without his input.

He has also added many new tile sets, new creatures, creature themes, fog and light levels, etc., to the XML.

He is the first user brave enough to modify the xml, as far as we can tell. He tells us it wasn't that bad. His advice is, "Just keep all blunt objects locked away and the phone number of your therapist close at hand...."

Thanks also to Qwert, who was the driving force behind the addition of Effect Items and the Random Generation Dialog. He helped publicize GenMod by using it on the 100 level Undead Dungeon and the Plane of Dread mods; and has been a source of lots and lots and lots of ideas and constructive criticism.

Thanks to Dragonsong, who wrote the TES tutorial that kept us sane.

Congrats to Alkanphel, who submitted the first-ever bug report for GenMod.

If anyone is able to edit NIF files: we are hoping to get a few modified cave tiles so that we can do random cave generation. Your name could appear here! If you would like to help, drop us an email.

Motivation, inspiration, and some algorithmic ideas came from the public domain games Amulet of Yendor and Moria. Thanks to Robert A. Koeneke, James E. Wilson, et al. Those games showed that you get a ton of replay value when the game world is auto-generated.

More motivation came from commercial games like Master of Orion and Civilization 2. They worked with auto-generated worlds/galaxies, and had tons of replay value as a result.

GenMod uses the Xerces XML parser and string tokenizer from the Apache Software Foundation. Xerces is Good Stuff. Their string and unicode support are the best I have seen.

Here is their licensing info:

The Apache Software License, Version 1.1

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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"This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/)."

Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself, if and wherever such third-party acknowledgments normally appear.

4. The names "Xerces" and "Apache Software Foundation" must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without prior written permission. For written permission, please contact apache@apache.org.

5. Products derived from this software may not be called "Apache", nor may "Apache" appear in their name, without prior written permission of the Apache Software Foundation.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION OR ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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