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STILL NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME, PLZ TO NOT BE LINKING. (Not that you'd want to at this point anyway.)

You would not believe the amount of programming I've done* just to get the simple result that shows here:

~~http://www.magatsu.net/zanpakuto/shikai.php (Reload to get a new result)~~ Cleaned up the directory, now at: http://www.magatsu.net/zanpakuto/

Plz to be admiring the way it knows whether to use "a" or "an" and how the adjectives are not duplicated. (This is not using the Seventh Sanctum script, BTW - I'm starting from scratch on this one. Which means that, since I'm not an elegant programmer, it's probably twice as long as it needs to be. It's for-damn-sure going to be much longer than it needs to be after I get different sentences in there. I may be needing to look harder at functions, in the near future.

~~Yes, I know you sometimes get "a big, tiny" weapon and similar. Stopping that happening is way beyond what I'm willing to do right now.~~ Fixed, thanks to

tprjones telling me how! :D

* for values of "programming" that programmers understand to be "staring at the screen until your forehead bleeds while trying to figure out the logic, looking like you're not doing anything, which makes people wonder why you scream invective at them when they interrupt your staring because you obviously weren't doing anything."

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I'll just show you what I've got - it's actually based on the meta-descriptor/descriptor/actor/meta-actor breakdown in your ... er, whatever it was in your tutorials site. It seemed a fairly easy way to do it, since the zanpakuto names in canon don't seem to follow any strict grammatical rules.*

http://magatsu.net/magatsu.net/zanpakuto/Zanpakuto2007-07-04.zip

Yeah, all the textfiles are separate right now. I haven't figured out yet how to get into them and search for just sections yet. :)

* The list of named zanpakuto from Wikipedia:

Moon Cutter
Crimson Princess
Flowing Blade like Flame
Stern Spirit
Hornet
Five-form Head
Divine Spear
Miserable Man/Apologizer
Frozen Cloud
Gourd
Mirror Flower Water Moon
Flying Plum Tree
A Thousand Cherry Blossoms
Snake Tail
Heaven's Punishment
Splitting Crow
Flower Heaven, Crazy Bone
Avalanche
Pure Insects
Ice Ring
Ash Cat
Demon Light (Viz: Winter Cherry)
Wisteria Peacock
Rainbow Haze
Killer Head
Truth of Pisces
Twisted Flower
Sleeve of White Snow
Soil Catfish

The file wont download, sadly.

I think the names are easily analyzable - but to be fair, unless you want to get REALLY complex, you may want to make names separate from powers.

I managed to double the "magatsu.net" portion. :)

http://www.magatsu.net/zanpakuto/Zanpakuto2007-07-04.zip

If all else fails, I'll leave the names separate, but it's still worth poking at, at least. :)

First - wow. This is complex. I'm impressed at how its evolving.

The tact you took, I noticed, is to do a breakdown into generator components to make sure you mantained control and the ability to refer back to the names. That works pretty well.

Pretty much you're on your way to making this work - its far more specific than I'd suspected, but I see how you're fleshing it out. Frankly, I think you're on the way - I don't see much I can contribute, but I will make one suggestion:

It seems that you're trying to make it all "cohere" with the names, etc. So a thought on that:
Maybe you should have powers and types of weapons associated with additional namefiles - figure out the type and power FIRST, then that would guide the files you load to generate names.

So there might be a "Fire File" and a "Sword file" that'd get uploaded so you get "Firey Edge" or "Cutting Nova" for some sword with fire powers.

It'd be complex, but hey you're aiming HIGH and have already done some pretty impressive stuff as is.

The only disadvantage is that you're coding this to be very, very specific. So you may not be able to recycle the code as easily - but you have found a way to really keep control and focus.

Oh, you're right. XD I did something like that with weapon type - backtracked and picked the weapon type before I picked the weapon. That ought to work. Requires more rearranging, but hey, it's good practice. :)

I do have a tendency to code really specifically, which leads me to having to rip apart and recode things when I end up coding myself into a corner. I think I've hit that point in the calendar program for the library's intranet - people want to be able to do things like add a meeting every second Wednesday of the month for the next full school year with little extra work. Aarg.