HCl is Back!

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!

That's Some Bird's Nest

Had to give the guy a home. :) It still needs a few more spires and a background. I may just paint in the holes for the spires, not sure yet though.

The houses look like they are built on giant petrified trees and the roots drop down to a dried out river bed, possibly somewhat like mangrove tree roots.