by Leftos on Sat Feb 09, 2013 4:25 am
Vlad has a life which is keeping him extremely busy. Trust me, REDitor is a good source of money for him, he wants it done ASAP more than any of you guys do. If he could've done it by now, he would.
From what I know, Vlad is building REDitor from scratch this year. He has decoded everything he could decode (and it's a shitload of stuff), but he wanted to build REDitor from the ground up. The old code was too messy to maintain, and couldn't be expanded too easily, hence why REDitor hardly had any new features after release. Vlad has said that this new editor will be much better than before, and will allow him to add features long after the initial release. I say it's worth the wait.
And to debunk something I read here, no, REDitor is NOT going to be open-source. Vlad is determined to have REDitor be closed-source, with the usual heavy protections that prevent it from being cracked, and earns him the money he deserves (those kinds of protections are either too expensive or too hard to write, another reason he deserves the money). What he had told me, is that if he had the time, he planned to create an API of sorts, so that plug-ins and tools could be written directly for REDitor (instead of having to manipulate the exported CSVs like last year). Kind of like what the TURK scripts where, but easier and more powerful.
I don't believe Vlad has given up on making REDitor. There's still a lot of interest for it, and he knows it. I am sure, 100% sure, that whatever's holding him up is legit. We're all human. No matter how much all of us want REDitor, it's up to Vlad to actually find the time, and the mood, to develop it and finish it.
I still believe it's coming, and I'm waiting for it, patiently.
Eleftherios "Leftos" Aslanoglou
NBA 2K AI Software Engineer
Visual Concepts Entertainment / 2K Sports
Used to be "That Tools Guy" around here during the good ol' days. Although you probably remember me as your favorite Podcast host.
