New Files: Evolving Magic, Dink Blender Template, Dink Smallwood Chinese Edition
Three new files have been released. Evolving Magic is Pupperoni's very first file, including the Evolving Fireball spell, which gets stronger as your magic stat increases, an acid rain spell that also seems to get stronger, and a Close Wounds spell. Oh, and a test dmod featuring giant ducks and easter eggs! Definitely worth a gander if you're looking to spruce up the magic in your dmod, or just for fun for the amusing demo.
The second file is the Dink Blender Template by drone1400, which generates Dink sprites with directions and checker grid shadows from a blender model. It all sounded like magic to me, so I just downloaded the file on a USB stick, inserted it into my blender, and at first I thought it didn't work... however, as the sun came up, my blender DID cast a shadow! Alternatively, full instructions are included.
The third file is Dink Smallwood Chinese Edition by xjnzhidao0, which seems to have been originally posted in 2018 on a Chinese forum. Thanks EMP for submitting this. The file was lying around for a while because we weren't sure what to do with it, but I reckon such a high quality file deserves to be on the Dink Network. It's not just a simple translation patch, it's the full suite. Included are Chinese translations of Original Dink and Mystery Island, with even the title screen buttons translated, the full CD version of the game, as well as a DOSbox emulation of Windows 95. For that authentic retro experience of playing Dink Smallwood on Windows 95, because Dink has been retro for a while now, and we're really all incredibly old.
The second file is the Dink Blender Template by drone1400, which generates Dink sprites with directions and checker grid shadows from a blender model. It all sounded like magic to me, so I just downloaded the file on a USB stick, inserted it into my blender, and at first I thought it didn't work... however, as the sun came up, my blender DID cast a shadow! Alternatively, full instructions are included.
The third file is Dink Smallwood Chinese Edition by xjnzhidao0, which seems to have been originally posted in 2018 on a Chinese forum. Thanks EMP for submitting this. The file was lying around for a while because we weren't sure what to do with it, but I reckon such a high quality file deserves to be on the Dink Network. It's not just a simple translation patch, it's the full suite. Included are Chinese translations of Original Dink and Mystery Island, with even the title screen buttons translated, the full CD version of the game, as well as a DOSbox emulation of Windows 95. For that authentic retro experience of playing Dink Smallwood on Windows 95, because Dink has been retro for a while now, and we're really all incredibly old.
I'll have to look into those giant ducks later...
> It all sounded like magic to me, so I just downloaded the file on a USB stick, inserted it into my blender, and at first I thought it didn't work... however, as the sun came up, my blender DID cast a shadow! Alternatively, full instructions are included.
This got me laughing my ass off real good
The Chinese version is really interesting! Seems the author didn't use the FreeDink translation system, but instead manually edited all the scripts directly! That's a lot of work! Impressive!
> It all sounded like magic to me, so I just downloaded the file on a USB stick, inserted it into my blender, and at first I thought it didn't work... however, as the sun came up, my blender DID cast a shadow! Alternatively, full instructions are included.
This got me laughing my ass off real good
The Chinese version is really interesting! Seems the author didn't use the FreeDink translation system, but instead manually edited all the scripts directly! That's a lot of work! Impressive!
Damn, looks like someone needs to send Pupperoni an Ogg Vorbis tutorial 
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It appears the Chinese edition download only contains the bare scripts for patching, and lacks Windows 95 along with the other stuff mentioned.
Oh it's a separate version.
Oh it's a separate version.
Slight update regarding the "Dink Blender Template" - I have also uploaded the offline documentation included in this release to gitlab.
You can browse the documentation website here: https://drone1400.gitlab.io/dink-blender-template-documentation
The source code itself for the website is here: https://gitlab.com/drone1400/dink-blender-template-documentation/
You can browse the documentation website here: https://drone1400.gitlab.io/dink-blender-template-documentation
The source code itself for the website is here: https://gitlab.com/drone1400/dink-blender-template-documentation/
