Please do not post third party download links here.
axel's link clearly is version 1 because it uses qt4.
Version 2 is based of Qt5.

I repaired the link in the FuTa 2 Mainthread.

Qt is nice, but it comes with a number of drawbacks (as does all cross-platform UI development). What I’ve found from playing with it is that:

- Qt applications will only look good on the platform they’re designed on unless you do a lot of platform-specific tweaks (this drives perfectionists nuts)
- Making sure that Qt is properly linked, cut down, and included with your application on platforms that aren’t Linux can be a pain
- The larger the range of controls and Qt utilities you use, the more the application’s size inflates due to requiring more of Qt to be included

i think the word you are looking for is "bloated" everything you said is true. yet, there is no better alternative.
@design thingy: they are currently try to solve this with their own design which is supposed to be consistent over all platforms.

I much prefer doing native front ends when possible. It’s much easier to ensure that the program “just works” on target platforms, the binaries are smaller and lighter (for instance, the debug version of the BLP viewer currently weighs only ~300kb and final will be maybe half of that), and it’s much easier to take advantage of system features (for instance, OS X’s built in automatic file versioning system). For Linux though, Qt is definitely the way to go, no question. GTK+ is a royal mess in comparison and most Linux users have Qt installed already anyway.

i once tried to build sth that uses only native ui systems, after that i gratefully accepted Qt's drawbacks
(and yeah GTK+ is a mess -.- )

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Anyway, just got “type 3” ARGB BLPs implemented. Palletized is next up, that should be fun…
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i implemented that somewhere.......iirc it wasn't as "hard" as it looked at first glance...

created my own Mountain Style
Hope u guys like it:

not want to be a dick (again) but to me that looks kinda undefined. yeah maybe even blurry (the black parts).
what i do like is that you have "vegetation zones" like a real mountain does. if you refine these + get rid of the blur im sure it will like pretty dammn awesome.

Tinkering with my DBC editor

i like that. MAC only i suppose?

I'm working on some areas for my Gnomeregan rebuild, made with blender.

probably dumb question: these are imported from WMO, aren't they?

And once again: What am i working on?

a lot these days. have 5 or so different projects going on currently.
Since i switch between them on a daily basis there are always just baby steps not really worth writing about. However, here are some things

LoadGL.cmake

Today i made a small cmake script public that i wrote yesterday.
Residing here it simplifies loading OpenGL functions in a cmake build env.
Its more or less just a port of a already existing lib, but yeah thats what i did today.

WoW Post Processing

Another thing i recently started working on: implementing post processing for WoW.
The idea to archive that is a rather simple: one creates a "proxy" d3d9.dll in which the geometry gets rendered into a texture instead of the screen. Then the picture gets handed over to the post processing code/shader and finally gets displayed.


(proof of concept: the login screen rendered onto a smaller quad)

Most of the "setup" code is done. Only thing left to do is the post processing shader itself.

LUI - Lightweight User Interface

I don't know if its just me but every time i was looking for a decent OpenGL UI library i couldn't find anything suitable.
Either they were bulky as fuck or they were incomplete and barely functional. As cromon had similar thoughts on that subject we decided to team up and build a new lightweight lib.
LUI is still in a really early state (there is no code at all ) but we hope we can change that in the next few weeks.
My current prototype however looks _really_ promising  :lol:


more to come.
(yep there are still more projects....)

Thanks bernd for yoir contribution..  Again.

And to all others.  If you find out stuff.  Also add it to the wow dev wiki!
Everyone can get an account.

guilty as charged. finally need to request a account.......

I tend to tell people how shitty their working environments and tools are. Well, joke 's on me, I guess.
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oh i have seen worse.....sublime is a fine piece of software, isn't it?

Exams are getting closer....
so heightmap import will take some more time.

the transition here looks totally unnatural because of the different types of stone.....maybe try to fill the gap with a texture more similar to the steps.

the texture is way to stretched and repeats itself to much...
plus the black texture looks just weird there....

but all in all it looks pretty good to me....