Starlight

Starlight was a WIP tool made by Super Hackio that ultimately was canned due to drama and others not working on the project.

Basic Info

Starlight's developers were:

• Super Hackio (Lead Developer)
• JuPaHe64 (3d renderer/graphics)
• Someone (Object Database/misc)
• Lord-Giganticus (Build scripts/misc)

Much like Whitehole, Starlight needed to know where your Game's file were, and then could open the galaxy with basic info. Starlight had a feature where certain animations like thomps falling, would actually play, it was very basic but it was an interesting concept. The program had basic placement and moving features, and a handful of small things finished.

Bugs

Despite only being used by a handful of people, the program does have some interesting bugs.

• Certain models would NOT render correctly at ALL. (Likely due to GL_EditorFramework)
• It was possible to corrupt the BCSV by accident sometimes.

Other issues

Despite never being finished there are some technical non-bug issues worth noting.

• Starlight was on the DotNet Framework, which at the time was being phased out with NET 5 (and NET 6 on its way). Hack.IO has yet to be updated to NET 5,6,or 7.
• GL_EditorFramework (the 3d library) was a very old library (also stuck on DotNet Framework) and by the time JuPa "released" EditTK, Starlight had been canned.
• Had Starlight gotten more reviews from people outside the development team, it could've seen a public release.