CStM: The State of LOTRO Plugins
 

A Casual Stroll To Mordor: The State of LOTRO Plugins

Thanks to Merric for shining some light on Turbine's fading interface support. It's a great summary, which even has quotes from our previous discussion here. :) Let's hope it encourages even more people to request LUA/UI support from Turbine.

For those of you new to LotROInterface, here's the official forum thread requesting the current interface art pack where Sapience (post #58) said, "I'll pass the request for the skin definition file along." We haven't heard anything since. There are similar requests for LUA updates, although I can't find a really clear thread to point to.

It may have been coincidental timing, but shortly after CSTM's article, we got our first official communique from Turbine about the state of Lua and skinning:
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...art-Monitoring

Narrel has sworn that unless he has an untimely meeting with a large vehicle, a new art pack will be made available around the time of the release of Isengard.

Excellent, hope its not false promises though :s.. But for now we should remove the negative thoughts from our minds?... urm no! :) ... We want API improvements! rofl

HAH!! And people mocked me when I suggested that the art pack would be released with Isengard.

*fingers remaining crossed* I've been really hoping things would pick back up, it's been sad for me to watch what's been happening to the community (or not happening, as the case may be).

A light at the end of tunnel, Finally. *fingers crossed*

My thanks to Merric for the wonderfull article.

And many thanks to everyone in lotro community for supporting the modding community!

Wow, this is excellent news! It was certainly not a coincidence. Thanks again Merric for writing the article. And thanks to everyone who posted in the lotro.com thread asking for interface support. I can't wait to see what people create when the resources are available!

I don't know about you guys, but I'm suddenly in awe over Merric's influence :p