Stay with the Builder or start again with URWIGO or Earwigo

[+MtnLioness]

I am building my 1st Wherigo, not come across any problems as yet and didn't do the tutorial, (didn't know about it). I am just fiddling and learning my way through it and have input 4 zones and story and some commands so far, however, after reading through some of these threads I am wondering if the advise given to a few other people about switching to URWIGO or Earwigo would really benefit me?

Would I have to start again?

Not really keen on that idea as I have done a lot it seems.

Just getting my head around it thus far has been easy enough but I am not by any standard the typical genius that tries to make these Whereigos!

Some advise please?

[+Master Mariner]

I am building my 1st Wherigo, not come across any problems as yet and didn't do the tutorial, (didn't know about it). I am just fiddling and learning my way through it and have input 4 zones and story and some commands so far, however, after reading through some of these threads I am wondering if the advise given to a few other people about switching to URWIGO or Earwigo would really benefit me?

Would I have to start again?

Not really keen on that idea as I have done a lot it seems.

Just getting my head around it thus far has been easy enough but I am not by any standard the typical genius that tries to make these Whereigos!

Some advise please?

 

I am by no means an expert! I used the Wherigo builder initially but changed to Urwigo - you can import a builder LUA file into Urwigo quite easily. I have not found a user manual for Urwigo but there does seem to be a fair bit of information around for the builder.

 

If I had not used the builder and then imported the LUA file into Urwigo I do not think I would have stuck with it (Urwigo). At least, by importing, I was able to see how Urwigo puts a cartridge together.

 

I have not tried Earwigo so cannot comment on it!

 

Hope that helps.

[+sTeamTraen]

Earwigo will also let you import your existing Lua files. Unlike Urwigo, it will also let you export most of your cartridge (apart from any Earwigo-specific stuff like obfuscation and play-anywhere, which gets stripped out) back to the Groundspeak builder.

[+MtnLioness]

Ok, I have come back to my half done Wherigo Cart and find that it won't load, grrr.

Now I have to start again, I have just downloaded Urwigo and shall have to start again.

Will let you know how it goes.

Thanx for all your advise!

[+sTeamTraen]

If you import it into Earwigo you will only lose those lines which are corrupt. That might be less work.

[Ranger Fox]

It's possible to fix the cartridge, if you'd like. If you want to try that route (and then import into one of the third-party builder applications if you'd like), I can help.