I really appreciate your glowing review, but in my mind Retera Model Studio is quickly becoming a jaunk program. That's halfway between junk and jank.
I spent more time talking to people on discord about Warcraft modding than I actually spent modding. Everything feels like a totally lost cause, and I don't blame Blizzard at all, I kind of blame myself. I have videos of myself in 2017 after a Blizzard insider mentioned offhand there would be a remaster, and in these videos of myself I talk about how it will struggle greatly and how my Warcraft 3 experience doesn't need HD graphics.
I made a discord server dedicated to Retera Model Studio, but I made the server on my phone at 1 am after reading someone telling me that using my software felt like, and I quote:
i feel like I try to clean throat throught the a**(edited)
[1:31 PM]
this is what I experienciung when I do models in RMS!
[1:33 PM]
and the only thing you will answer me " ok man learn coding and do better!"
And I am totally on board with this criticism. That's why I made the Retera Model Studio discord server. I was becoming such a discord addict that I would talk to these people distantly, using a device that can run Chrome Browser but not RMS, and it makes it feel like everything I say on Warcraft modding is a lie. I always tell people it feels possible but I can't do it just this minute. If I had a dime for every time someone requested something of me on Hive or Discord and I just stopped responding, I'd probably be a pretty wealthy guy right about now.
So I desperately hoped Retera Model Studio Users Group discord that I created would make me feel so guilty that I would finally serve the people instead of just sending messages of, "Yea, that's probably possible, I could do it later."
But recently I just stopped checking my own server, abandoning everyone to a purgatory waiting for features as though I was actively developing them, which -- I "want" to be -- but it's not my job! Year long break from updates? I don't have a problem with that. If I want a code change, I'll do it while I'm thinking about it.
But the glorious thing about this modern internet is that it brings out the extemist in all of us. As I leave Retera Model Studio like a twisted horcrux screaming in the shadows, I have begun to seek my eternal reward. Everything is made possible by other users on the Hive. If we're being honest, it's all owed to them. But that doesn't matter anymore, it just means I need a credits list.
RMS always revolved around this sort of fake dance, constantly trying to reinvent bits and pieces of the Warcraft 3 engine and then stick them together again in different ways to serve me. My path towards my eternal reward began when I realized I shouldn't be dancing with this truth, I should embrace it, like neverbefore. Why rewrite a thousand shattered pieces of the game if I could simply rewrite the entirety of it in one go?
This is my liberation, the illusion that defies dreams...
If you want updates before my eternal reward is complete, it's going to have to fall on someone else's shoulders now to pick up the ugly carcass of the Retera Model Studio codebase. My new project is a kind of vacation, yet so enthralling that I refuse to let go and go back.