GEL
GEL is a genetic editor for Creatures and Creatures 2 created by Mike Raiford, first released on 1 January 1999.
Features include:
- Chemical View - View Genes that affect a certain chemical
- Loci View - Navigate back through a locus to view the emitter and receptor genes that affect it
- Organ View - View Genes by thier association with an organ
- Genome View - View the entire genome, separated by Gene Type
- Brain View - Modify the physical layout of the brain graphically
GEL was available at Mike's Creatures until it went down. GEL 1.0.1 can be downloaded at Bibbleworld or 3DDownloads. Unfortunately a bug caused it to fail to load on Windows NT/2k/XP; as the source was lost, this problem was thought unfixable until GreenReaper created a patch (only for NT/2k/XP/onwards), which should be extracted into the Windows\System32 folder after installing the main package (overwriting the existing DLL).
GEL 2 fixed this problem, and was intended to be an improvement in general but never got the time it needed to be completed. Rumours persist of a GEL 3, although they have not yet been substantiated.