HCl is Back! (August 19, 2010)

ChrisReid

ChrisReid

Super Soaker Collector / Administrator
Everyone at the CIC is very happy to announce that HCl's Wing Commander Editing Site is back! Didn't notice it was missing? Good! Thanks to some spry coordination and thorough backups, the site survived the recent decommissioning of WCRevival.de and has quickly resurfaced at SolSector. This trove of Wing Commander tools can now be found at hcl.solsector.net, and it comes with an important lesson - everyone back up your data! His fifteen years of creating amazing work has produced marvels such as online Prophecy & Armada multiplayer, Prophecy & Secret Ops high resolution patches, Prophecy DVD movie integration, WC1/2 ship viewer and many more. Even back on Opening Day, August 10, 1998, HCl was there to dazzle Wingnuts with new programs. Here's a few words on future plans from the editing god himself:

I will be resuming work in a couple of my patches, so there will be updates once significant milestones have been reached. In the meantime, if you haven't already, you may want to take a look at my video converter tools for WC3/4 Playstation (released on the CIC birthday update and part of an attempt of AD and myself to rip media from WC console games). There's also a Tai2wav converter available for WC3 PSX sounds.

I have also been looking at the WC3 3DO movies some time back. Although I did manage to put together some information regarding the video and audio encodings, I never managed to complete a decoder unfortunately... Maybe I should take a look into it again!
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Original update published on August 19, 2010
 
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That's great news - welcome back HCl!

I remember playing around with your wc1-editor trying to put all capital ships side by side in one mission :)
 
I knew wcrevival.de had went down. I was kinda hoping they'd come back, if only for HCl's site.

I'm so glad you're back, HCl, even as busy as you are (aren't we all?). I'm not going to pressure you for any more work than you wish to handle, but I will express an appreciation for a 3DO movie extractor. Of all the movie-based WC games, WC3 is sorely lacking in the area of obtaining clean image frames, as I discovered from working on the WC3 WCPedia images. WC4 and WCP have standard-definition DVD-quality videos, but WC3 is all over the place in terms of quality.
 
Don't forget the work he's done for the Lancers community. He pretty much jump-started the Freelancer modding scene by creating some of the first tools for it, like the model importer/exporter, before I think the game was even released. I know for sure that Reckoning wouldn't have been able to have gone as far as it did without him.
 
This is great, my heart hurt when his WCRevival site disappeared.

We should take up a collection and hire HCl to hack Wing Commander full time.
 
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