Hi ShadowIce,
To avoid any risk of inadvertently provoking rude replies on the internet, might I respectfully suggest that you refrain from SHOUTING words in capital letters? If however you were unaware of the aggressive meaning of ALL CAPS (
Netiquette rule #2), then I sincerely apologise for the intemperate tone of my previous response. If you feel the need to add
polite emphasis, might I suggest italics?
I'm simply stating that ANY user here would agree with me that this is a needed plugin.
It's probably imprudent to answer this
again, but I must reiterate that I have seen no evidence to support this assertion. The truth is there are very few feature requests that are widely popular; most are niche, like yours, and that's OK. I do niche requests.
Perhaps it would be illustrative to list some of the feature requests that are popular, and have high priorities for after the release of v16.0X:
- Multi-threading some of the heightfield calculations would save many users a ton of time, and is probably the most popular request. I'm now convinced it's time.
- A 64 bit build. I get this request a lot too.
- A re-write of Sapphire to use OpenGL 3+ would speed things up, allow better effects, and potentially save a bunch of driver-related heartache. This is long overdue.
- Better JPEG and/or PNG plugins that don't run out of memory on large map sizes would also be well received.
- Even deferred/on-demand loading of plugins to speed up application startup may be well appreciated, especially since the number of plugins keeps increasing for some reason.
I have no doubt that your request is more important to you than those other features listed above, but one balance I'd say that any given user would more likely prefer one or more of those on the list above to your plugin request. As I said back on the 13th, and again yesterday, I have committed to write this plugin, but it won't be commenced or completed immediately after the release of v16.0X. It
may be completed before most of those listed above, however, because it is a relatively small job. The vagaries of precisely when I get to it are difficult to predict and not subject to persuasion. The same goes for all requests from all other users, too.
Kind regards,
Aaron.