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Warsmash Mod Engine
I mean, it's possible that the vernacular on Warcraft 3 predates the modern graphics technology and its naming conventions.do players of War3 even know what skinning vs rigging is, and then again, why texture-swaps shouldn't be called skinning?
I'm not here to tell people that they need to change their language -- I just hope to have very solid and working modding technology. Even if you named the blender plugin you're describing "My Little Pony Cute Skinning Retexturing Edits Anything Plugin With Great Name" probably people would pretty quickly be telling each other to download MLPCSREAPWGN to edit their MDX files, and whether people would use it I think would depend on whether it handled all of the technology problems accurately and not on what it was named.
Nobody is paying me to be in a maintenance position, and although trying to care about the opinions and affections and gratitude of others might in some cases be laudable, I think it is almost certainly not helpful to oneself. I am here and Ghostwolf and Magos are not, because I am self-interested. If we look at what they were doing, taking requests from other people to help them, there is always eventually burn out because no one could pay anyone enough to make this kind of hobby a job, so it's totally just done by free will, and the free will based on pretend internet love and affection burns up when somebody realizes they need to have real friends in the face to face world, and have some good times, some close friends, and some good laughs away from the computer.we just can't help them in ways other than try to keep at our respective maintenance positions for a while longer.
So, I don't think I would call it a maintenance position. If Retera Model Studio was my job, I'd probably be pretty concerned, because it was never finished. The parts that work are only the ones that are useful to me. There are actually quite a number of buttons in the UI on Retera Model Studio that someone else asked me to create, and then I created about half of what they asked for, and then I just stopped because I didn't feel like doing it anymore, and I did something else.
Above: This has been this way since like, 2019 before Reforged released. And it can stay that way for all I care. It's also not the only one like this.
So, if I do a Magos and just disappear, there isn't anyone to stop paying me (although, as with my Hive Hero sub, I might stop paying them funny as that is). I wouldn't have failed in my duties to my "maintenance position," because I don't have one.
But to be honest, I think I can help people who are afraid of change.there will always be those that stay with old tools, afraid of change
By telling them the truth, which is often that the change to the new thing is bad, and the new thing is worse, and the people who made it should feel bad for promoting it.
It is situational and depends on which "new thing" they are being told to use.
What if there is a user who wants to edit his particle emitters to make models that look cool like Vinz! What program should he use?
Probably Magos 1.07 because Retera Model Studio isn't finished
[Edit: Despite probably giving this recommendation to other people, no, I don't seriously use Magos anymore.]
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