Thank you everyone for your wonderful submissions and improvements for Ultra Hal. I've thourougly enjoyed them all. A new user download/upload area has been created so that you can more easily share your files with a larger audience.
Once Ultra Hal Assistant 5.0 is released the current plug-ins page will be replaced with the page at
http://www.ultrahal.com/files Please go there and submit your brain plug-ins, skins, or characters if you would like to share them.
Most users aren't as computer-savvy as many of the people on this forum, so to make it easier for them please use the Hal plug-in installer that is attached to this post. All you need to do is put all the files your plug-in needs into a single folder. Then copy the setup.exe from the plug-in installer into the folder. Next you need to make a file called plugin.dat that looks like this:
Name of plugin
C:"file1.uhp"
C:"defbraindb1.brn"
C:"defbraindb2.brn"
M:Installation of [name of plugin] is complete. Before you can use it, you must select this brain from Hal's options. Simply click on Hal's menu button, select "General Options", select the "Brain" tab, and then select "[Name of plugin]"
The first line is the title of the plugin. The next few lines start with C: which mean copy. The files listed under C: will be copied to whereever Ultra Hal is installed. Be sure to include quotes. In order to copy to a subfolder like defbrain just write C:"defbrainfile.brn" If you need to create a new subfolder you can write D:"foldername" before copying files. At the end of the file is an M: which is simply a message displayed to the user after installation. After this is done all the files should be put into a zip file so that it can easily be downloaded.
Also please continue posting code snippits and works-in-progress to this forum so that forum members can learn. Just use the file sharing area to share completed projects with the general end user.
Download Attachment: 
HalPluginInstaller.zip15.2 KB
