Ok, I know, It’s been a very long time since I posted anything here.  I have been pretty busy lately, though, so I haven’t had much of a chance to post anything here.  However, progress *has* been, er, progressing on the libPlasma and PlasmaShop fronts over the past few months.  I even have proof this time!  I’ve been pretty busy with exporting libPlasma stuff to the Python interface, which may eventually be used as a back-end for PyPRP 2.0, so a large portion of libPlasma’s functionality can now be directly accessed from Python.  Also, I’ve started really working on PlasmaShop 3.0 again, specifically the new tool to replace PRPTool — PrpShop.  It’s a bit more like PrpExplorer, in that it has rendered previews and can actually SAVE CHANGES (:D), but the design is a bit different from both PrpTool and PrpExplorer, in that it’s more focused on the end result than the internal engine hierarchy.  There will still be a lot of engine stuff you’ll have to deal with, but that’s pretty much unavoidable with an engine the size of Plasma.  I’m hoping it will end up being pretty user-friendly and useful, but I guess we’ll see what happens.  Also, Lontahv has been working on another project in parallel that I feel deserves mention here — he’s been creating a program to view and explore the ages, rendered in real-time by a mini-engine that uses libPlasma as its backend!  It’s pretty cool from what I’ve seen so far, but you’ll probably have to ask him for details since it’s his project, not mine.

So, without further ado, I offer the downloads for the latest PlasmaShop alpha releases (I told you I had proof of my progress ).  You’ll see it’s still very far from being complete, but I think it’s fun to play with anyway.

[PlasmaShop 3.0 alpha]

The other stuff can still be found on Subversion like before, but I’ve also started making Win32 releases by popular request, which can be downloaded from:

[Latest libPlasma build]

~Z