Mods Studio 2 v.2020.09 released (Patreon)

Hello dear friends,

It's been a while! There's two reasons for that - firstly, my day job is taking a lot of my free time, thus I have less time to work on MS2. Secondly, the new UV Exporter took a while to develop - but it's a great feature that I'm sure will be of great use to all of you.

UV Exporter

The new UV exporter tool lets you create UV templates from any SCS pmd file. It let's you specify many export options, such as:

What parts and materials to export

What UV map to export

Parts color & transparency

Wireframe color & transparency

Wireframe thickness

Option to export wireframe and part background separately

Size of the exported templates

And, of course, more things and improvements will be added in the future.

One great thing about this tool is the fact that a lot of work was done by Cadde, one of the original contributors to the E2S/MS2 project, and the original author of the 3D previewer. It's great having him back, and having someone to work with. It's less lonely this way :)

Recent issues with bugs

Unfortunately, our last release was plagued with bugs - more than usual. I've invested some time into testing this release. I've also made a self-testing tool for MS2 that I can now use to verify every version before release. Unfortunately, the tool has found a bug in itself. (The irony!) But, like everything software related - we can always improve for the next release. :)

Future plans

I plan to keep an eye on bugs and issues, and spend time improving stability and usability for the next version. Together with that, I'll continue working on the auto-update feature so fixes will be easier to release. That should be released next month. 

There's a lot of other plans, and I've talked about them already here on Patreon and on our other social channels. I'll get back to everything I've planned, it's just a matter of priority.

Watch the live stream today

Today's the day of my monthly live stream, so if you want to see the new UV exporter in action, this is the place. :) Join me on Twitch - I'll be a nervous wreck as usual. :D

The (Halloween) stream is happening on October 31st, 2020:

17:00-21:00 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)

18:00-22:00 CET (Central Europe Time)

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM PST (Pacific Standard Time)

12:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST (Eastern Standard Time)

Hope to see you there!

Thank you all for your continued support!(It really does keep this project going!)

Marin