Toolset

The NWN2 toolset has been rewritten by Obsidian from the ground up in C#.

Obsidian has announced the following enhancements:

Camera placement options.
More wizards.
Conversation nodes will be able to pass parameters to scripts.
Tools will be "modeless", e.g., the builder will be able to have a dialogue window open and change things on the map at the same time.
Tabbed interface to easily jump between features.
Trees will be built using SpeedTree.
Objects (including creatures) can be scaled (larger or smaller) along one (or all) of three axis.
Support nearly any TrueType font.
The GUI will be skinnable.
Color palette are not used, because everything can be modified with 32-bits of color precision; up to 3 different tints can be applied to objects.
The toolset will have a plugin ability so module creaters can interface their own components.
Can change and create new palette categories.

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Game Developer Conference 2006[]

Erik Novales from Obsidian Entertainment gave a talk on a Case Study in Tools Development for the NWN2 toolset.