[12:43 AM] Mmmmmm: With luck, maybe your plans already were set to release the code before releasing any future version, at which case my request will no longer be necessary. As for Gen 3, while there are people who try to be helpful and make their features public, there are others who keep their own features to themselves to make their hacks special or to at least hold them off until their hack is complete (which it often doesn't become). That Mega Evolution situation is the first thing I was thinking of.
[12:44 AM] ShockSlayer: believe it or not, I didn't develop followers exclusively for CC
[12:44 AM] ShockSlayer: most of it is heavily commented so that other hacks can port it
[12:44 AM] Mmmmmm: It seems to me like a lot of people who want Gen 3 to be more open, like DizzyEgg and diegoisawesome, are working hard on the disassembly to change their scene to be more like Gen 2's.
[12:44 AM] Mmmmmm: Also, hearing that is very reassuring to me.
[12:45 AM] ShockSlayer: like, it does have code from the old implementation
[12:45 AM] ShockSlayer: I had to learn how to do things with mapobjects, object structs, animation, etc.
[12:45 AM] Bee Prince Vance (He/Him): I never ever felt the gen 2 scene to be open, so I think we are going to have to agree to disagree
[12:45 AM] ShockSlayer: but it's massive
[12:45 AM] ShockSlayer: 'cause I've been working on it for like 3 months straight
[12:46 AM] ShockSlayer: what would be a million times easier than trying to port it from CC would be to just have a forked build of tinycrystal or something where I ported it myself
[12:46 AM] ShockSlayer: so I can patch all the bugs the community finds, then make it available
[12:46 AM] Bee Prince Vance (He/Him): You've been a busy pig tbh, this shit was massive. Just working on a bit of the text was slightly overwhelming, and that was just a small portion of species-specific text...
[12:46 AM] ShockSlayer: considering that the 250 + 26 unown sprites aren't even mine, just modified
[12:47 AM] ShockSlayer: I've already sent those back to the dude that made them
[12:48 AM] ShockSlayer: despite the fact that I know people will just want to copy paste most tutorials and builds like this and say "i made this"
[12:48 AM] ShockSlayer: I'm into the idea behind the tutorials section on pokecrystal
[12:48 AM] nephitejnf: ahem LT Ahem
[12:48 AM] Bee Prince Vance (He/Him): "You made this, SS? ...I made this."
[12:48 AM] ShockSlayer: I don't want to teach without knowing, though.
[12:49 AM] ShockSlayer: I've made bad tutorials and guides before
[12:49 AM] Bee Prince Vance (He/Him): god LT
[12:50 AM] ShockSlayer: I'm well aware that a lot of what makes CC great is code from TPP, from polishedcrystal, from prism
[12:50 AM] ShockSlayer: I couldn't make ANY of the music tracks without frogg's GB Note
[12:51 AM] ShockSlayer: there's a lot of people who've done a lot of things that makes gen 2 hacking good
[12:51 AM] ShockSlayer: I've always planned followers as my big contribution, since most people don't want my music tracks lmao
[12:52 AM] ShockSlayer: I just want to be able to share it properly, not haphazardly.