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Legendary weapons

I've uploaded 4 game-saves that I got from 360haven.com. They are for Xbox 360, but it's an easy task to move items over to your own game-save if you use DISE! :)

Syncing is broken but will be available again in the next release!

Steam has changed its internals, making all current versions of DISE unable to sync with the latest version(s) of Steam. It may crash, nothing may seem to happen, or something else could happen. I went on the OpenSteamworks IRC channel for help, and they showed me their awesome bot which looks for those changes! :D

Viewing maps in Windows Explorer. Useless but fun?

Well, at least the first time, for a few seconds...

While working on the map feature, I just felt like sharing this. I extracted this map from the game (256 tiles), and changed the window layout a bit (hid the panes) and icon appearance (large icons, hid text) while viewing them in Windows. I could view the whole map as well as scroll up and down this way. :D

Game-save repository

This is a free service for downloading saved games and other things for Dead Island, which have been uploaded either by myself or other people.

Preview: Notification after saving

There are few more things left to take care of for the next release: making this optional + finishing the map feature. The latter has some bad performance issues, so I would feel embarrassed to show it to you (painting just one block takes about half a second on my laptop). If I can't find any tricks, I may have to rewrite the code for OpenGL or something (harder for me and takes more time).

Painting test :)

I am just testing the map feature and painting on it within DISE. Doesn't look perfect yet but it's coming along! :) Actually, after testing a bit more, I'm not entirely convinced that DISE does it wrong after all. Here's why:

Preview: Visual map

It's not ready for release just yet, and I still have some concerns regarding performance, and the explored area seems slightly off at the bottom... However, please check it out! :)

Would you like a notification when DISE finishes saving?

You know, a tiny popup in the main window or something that stays for a second or two, then disappears. It's just to see that something happened (DISE should never fail, though). Many programs has this fancy feature, even if it doesn't take long to save.

Application icon for DISE

I guess it was about time I made an icon for DISE. This is what I have so far, and I plan to use it for DISE. :) What do you think?