Since it’s now been nearly two weeks since I announced that I was about to release the Sanctum of the Archmage v3.2 update, I feel that I owe the community an explanation regarding why it has been delayed.
Since the Sanctum update uses NinjaWeasel’s Romantic Animations Suite (which I have been helping him to beta test), I have been waiting for him to make that publicly available before releasing it. I last heard from him on August 15th, in an email which said that he was submitting the RAS and that it would be available in a couple of days once it cleared the Vault. That should have been around August 18th or so. It was on the basis of that information that I posted my announcement that the long-delayed Sanctum update would be uploaded shortly, and prepared it for release.
The RAS hasn’t become available as I expected, either on NinjaWeasel’s website or on the Vault. I’ve emailed him several times over the last two weeks to inquire about the matter, but with no response. I’ve also tried to reach him through others in the community who know him, but no one seems to have seen him around recently. I hope nothing’s happened to him.
My only choices right now are to cancel my plans to release the Sanctum update until further notice, to release a version that doesn’t include the RAS, or to temporarily host the RAS hak on my own website. I’m not comfortable acting on that last choice without his stated permission, though, since I know that he wants to control the distribution of his work.
As I said in a previous post, I have a lot of RL related issues to take care of in the immediate future. So since I no longer have time to properly support a module release right now anyway, I’ve decided to postpone the Sanctum update until I do. I’m not sure exactly when that will be, but it will likely be in late September. Hopefully by then the unexpected confusion about the release of the RAS will be resolved, the Sanctum update can finally be posted, and I can get started in earnest on the next chapter. 🙂
Funny how you can’t get in touch with NinjaWeasel for the Romantic Animation Suite as I myself have been waiting for it (as per our discussion regarding it).
But I see it’s packaged with the 1.1 version of Project Q.
I’m so sorry you had to postpone. I hope it’s nothing serious with NinjaWeaselMan, but have fun and good luck with real life in the meantime. 🙂
Good news, all! I’ve finally heard from NinjaWeaselMan. Turns out he was swamped with RL for the last two weeks and just saw my emails. He’s given me the OK to temporarily host the RAS on my website, so that problem is solved now. 🙂
Unfortunately, I’m swamped with RL now myself for a bit, but I’ll try and set aside time to post and support the Sanctum v3.2 release as soon as I can.
Hi, FP! Yes, it’s PQ as well, but what we’ve been working on is a separate release in a small hak that just contains the animations. It’ll also have a demo module that he and I built, and a set of scripts that I wrote to help builders use it.