Though this is a major release, it's a quiet one as the (many) new features have the potential to be quite buggy. As you'll see, some of the new extensions are quite complex and add a lot of new features.
A quick list:
1) Sexual orientation has been overhauled internally, and includes a new message for failing an action based on sexual orientation.
2) The message system has been overhauled completely (again!). Sorry about that! But I think it's worth it, as it is very easy to customize failure messages by actor.
3) ALC has a new option that allows you to use the portrait description for examining clothes and body parts, meaning you only need to write one description for each body part and garment.
This also adds two new extensions, Penetration and Posturing. Posturing adds poses and furniture, and can be used as a framework to add a complex positioning system.
Penetration is a little more interesting. Though it is by far the most complicated extension internally (and hence, probably buggy) but the good news is that, if only the basic features are used, it very nicely does all the logic of sex for you, letting you concentrate purely on prose and text. Essentially, it allows for continuous actions, and handles the printing of text when sex actions begin and end. Combined actions are supported, but are a little buggy, and turned off by default.
You can download it all
here.
Some notes: I can't post to the AIF Archive anymore because of Yahoo! weirdness, but I will be tracking reddit and comments here, so please if you have problems or questions email me or post in one of those forums.
In addition, this is likely to be the last major release before the v1.0.0. I'm getting fatigued by writing extensions and I want to get back to writing games. The AIF Toolkit, more or less, has the features I want it to have, and from this point on I doubt it will change too dramatically. I am considering writing a PDF manual for the AIF Toolkit, but that really depends on the demand for it. So, if you're using the AIF Toolkit, I'd like to hear about it, and I'd like to invite you to ask me any questions you want.
