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That has left me torn over whether to continue work on a seperate program or see what I could do to contribute to Smurfy's. His online mechlab (if you've read this far without checking it, go back and do so now!) accomplishes a good percentage of what I was aiming for with my mechlab - no need for Java, no Excel 2007, nice UI, readable stat breakdowns.
I don't see many good reasons to continue on when there is a roughly equal program to what I've completed so far that is much more accessable and open for sharing mech designs. I've pulled out the program today and cleaned up all the major bugs - there is still a lot incomplete here, but all the mech assembly works just fine. I'd like to get a little bit of feedback and any opinions of whether I should put any more energy into this program or work toward something else.
Download Link - must have the .NET 4.0 client profile or better.
- Supports Overloading. You don't need to count slots or weight count to try an upgrade, just check it and anything too big or heavy will get marked in red. Upgrades like double heatsinks and artemis automatically replace items with the matching upgrade. If overloading puts more then 12 items in a location you will get a scrollbar to see them all.
- Weapon Groups are also supported. Click the little numbers beside any mounted weapon to assign weapon group. This was going to be used for stats, you can see the beginning of this on the left. This was so that you could get a good idea of your mechs real damage and heat profile even when you had both short range lasers and long range LRMs mounted.
- A lot of stats are not shown yet, both labs are unavailable.
- Just about everything on the left side of the screen is in a state of partial completion and lacks polish.
- Hasn't been polished much at all to work well with themes and DPI changes. DPI changes are handled fairly well but themes will ugly up the placement of a lot of elements on the left side. If all else fails use the Windows Classic Theme.
