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That's also my experience. People releasing their tools on obscure forums, usually without source code and no version control. Almost enire communities that hav
by panzi 3y ago
That's also my experience. People releasing their tools on obscure forums, usually without source code and no version control. Almost enire communities that haven't heard of GitHub. Though usually the tools work in wine... but are next to useless. GUI only and very clumsy to use. So many clicks for each single file to extract, no batch operations, no command line interface. A big WTF. How can you do any modding with those tools?
- 59nadir 3y agoIt's hard to not read this as elitist and entitled, to be honest. There are many people who know that GitHub exists but don't want to use it, and they also don't care for you having their source code. It's a choice they make. This entitlement is interesting because the solution obviously is to just make your own tools and not be a lazy library/tool hunter all the time.
- panzi 3y agoIf they do less work, i.e. not write a GUI, but just provide a command line tool you can suddenly automate things and it all gets much easier to use. Anyway, I then wrote my own tools and put them on GitHub. And documented the reverse engineered file formats. And then got pull requests from people that want to help! I was just voicing my bewilderment at this other culture. Don't understand why one would want to live like that.