Project Renewal On The Way

[Craka_J]

I am sure you are all wondering what's going on with Wc3:WoW and what has happened in the past few months. To be quite brief and honest, nothing has happened, as far as I know. Supposedly we still have a dedicated spell creator working on stuff, but nothing major has been reported for a long time.

Apparently my motivational skills are no longer efficient enough to maintain Wc3:WoW's teams' interest and inspiration to continue working actively. This unfortunately brings us back to square one: rebuilding the team. If you're really good with vJASS, you're wanted. But you need to be able to actually work and accept that the work-load will be pretty discouraging (lots to do) which has been the case for a ton of people I've recruited and kicked.

I may continue terraining Wc3:WoW despite the fact that the team is once again just a couple guys and literally no trigger work, mainly for the fun of it. I really hate quitting on this project and have quit so many times, but I always come back to it. I need to get this thing done in some way, shape, or form. If you too share a passion for developing large-scale mods, Wc3:WoW is what needs you most.
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[PS]: I'd like to send a special thanks to all those who've been creating models and textures for Wc3:WoW, even though they aren't on the team. I appreciate it a ton and it's one of the core reasons I've decided to renew my faith in the WarCraft III modding community. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS!

I also thank all the fans who remain patient and supportive. It's impressive that so many are still backing the project up and are willing to play-test and whatnot. Although there is nothing to test right now since there's no triggers, I appreciate the applications and interest nonetheless. Once again, THANK YOU!

[EDIT]:
I made a new News post on our Mod DB profile, check it out! http://www.moddb.com/mods/warcraft-iii-world-of-warcraft/news/revived4

 

[Craka_J]

vJASS V.S. JASS & GUI

Here are the reasons why we're using vJASS now instead of GUI triggers and JASS:

• vJASS is easiest to use and has a much wider range of things it can do that GUI triggers cannot do.
  
  
• vJASS is preferred from all of our coders.
  
  
• GUI triggers are often leaky and disorganized, while vJASS tends to not be as leaky or leaky at all, depending on the coder. Same goes for organization.
  
  
• vJASS coded triggers that are leaky are usually fixable to an extent or fixable completely.
  
  
• Mixture of GUI and JASS with vJASS has caused issues in the past with Wc3:WoW that made the campaign have either critical errors, not be editable, or even not playable at all.
  
  
• vJASS and JASS code is the main triggering language that the WarCraft engine reads fastest, even faster than GUI. Sometimes by a long-shot.
  
  
• Sticking to one triggering method such as vJASS rather than multiple triggering methods can result in confusion and create issues with organization and work habits.
  
  
• vJASS is pretty much a simplified version of JASS, so JASS alone isn't exactly too useful when you've got vJASS.
  
  
• GUI is slow, leaky, unorganized, consumes space, and is completely unnecessary when you've got the option to code it all in vJASS.

 

[iPeez]

Aight..

 

[Craka_J]

Well actually, not sure if a mixture of JASS and vJASS would be harmful to the campaign. It may even be necessary, now with the new hashtables and all that, unless vJASS can do that too now.

I'm not a coder!