Neverwinter Nights 2 Forum News (Jun. 01, 06)

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Here are today's Neverwinter Nights 2 forum highlights, collected by NWVault. Please take into account that these are only single parts of various threads and should not be taken out of context. Bear in mind also that the posts presented here are copied as-is, and that any bad spelling and grammar does not get corrected on our end.

J.E. Sawyer, NWN2 Lead Designer

Joke idea: Allow Guitar Hero controller support for Bards!
For April Fool's Day I wanted to post a thread with pictures of me playing NWN2 using the Steel Battalion controller. But people were babies about it so I didn't.

Scott Everts, NWN2 Environmental Artist

NWVault NWN2 E3 Preview - Day Three!

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As an aside, do you handle transparency with a separate alpha mask, tga's with the alpha channel, or some other way? Not a big deal, as things can be fiddled with post-release.

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There is an alpha mask which is stored as part of the file. So textures that need an alpha mask are stored 32 bit. Normally if there's no mask we just store the image without an alpha channel to save space.

Shane K. DeFreest, NWN2 Community Manager

Obsidian Developer Chat on Wednesday!
I dont know why it is that seemingly every time there is a chat someone has to fuel the fire of paranoia by suggesting that we screen questions only to answer the "safe" and/or "easy" questions. Continuously propagating that developers purposely dodge the more difficult or complex questions is simply not true. It's also insulting to the very busy people who take time out of their day to talk with the fans as a group.

Chats are screened mostly to give the team time to decide who is the best person in attendance to answer a given question, and for them to formulate the best answer possible. Unscreened, unmoderated chats quickly turn into chaos.

While I wont deny that we put the kibosh on a question or two here or there. It does not happen often and It's generally for reasons that involve people asking radically off topic questions, questions that we have previously answered repeatedly, or are just trying to be controversial. (Which is usually also off topic)

While moderated, screened chats are not for everyone. I'd ask that people be more respectful of the time and effort that goes into them from all parties involved.

More: Another misconception is that questions that dont get answered are "rejected". Truth be told 99% of the questions that dont get answered are simply due to either time constraints, or that we dont really have an answer for it yet. Also if we dont have the right person there who can necessarily answer the question accurately we pass on it.