you dont just go to budding mods and modders "LOL U GON SUXX" and tell them they cant do it and they shouldnt bother.
if you think somthing sounds bad, dont just point out the faults. point out an alternate method or suggested changes.
Sometimes there's no alternate method. It is actually helpful to other modders, it saves them time and frustration, to warn them in advance when they're clearly heading to a dead-end. Doesn't mean they're not free to try, but at least they know they shouldn't count on it. If common wisdom says it's not possible, either you agree with common wisdom, either you prove it wrong by publishing a unit that do it, but simply saying "
other people do cool stuff, so anything is possible" won't do it. And indeed if you plan on using impossible feature in large scale in a mod, you'd better check you can do it and that it's working well instead of making 100 units before realising that common wisdom for once held, and that it doesn't work and all has to be thrown away. So yeah, first devise a way to make melee, then make one melee unit, then play around with it, check how it behave, and only once you're checked it works well enough, start a whole TC that use it. If it was only a side aspect of the mod, something you could eventually do without, it wouldn't be that important, but here it sounds like Felix wants to make a whole mod revolving on an aspect on the engine that has repeatadly said to be tried and be impossible. Sounds a bad plan to drive full speed ahead into a wall many experienced people crashed into already while saying "
yeah I know currently no one can pass through, but I'm confident there is a way somehow".
As whether or not melee can be workarounded in Spring, I won't say cause I don't know enough.
Ok I admit tried in TA, with two approaches, and one felt promising, but near no one is supposed to know that, and I have yet to investigate all consequences and publish.
For scripting lifeliking horse animation dinamik would be a better choice than me. Ever seen his velociraptor, elephant, and whale?
And if you dislike Fang comments, there's only one way to prove him wrong, it's: Just do it. You'll spend month learning how to mod, modelling, texxing, scripting, tag editing, fighting the same incomprehensible bugs for days, eventually if you don't lose you motivation midway, after a year or so you'll have learnt a lot and managed to get a nice mod, the sum of countless hours of sleep deprivation and hard work, you'll post about it, and ... get either wholly ignored or flamed over little details. Just like Arg and Smoth. Welcome to modding!
)... well it wasn't so difficult for me to get familiar with the scripting language while slowly progressing at modeling but it was very depressing and frustrating, especially if you lack the necessary skills.
