Sergbuto hit the nail on the head about the entire SH3 - "specificity". Sh2 had little of it, SH3 has to much. its the 'specificity' that makes changing SH3 such a difficult thing. and the fact that so many things have redundant copies of data call outs where one would have served just fine.

Very nice. Looking forward to seeing more of this.

Wouldn't mods like this be more feasable with the SDK? Why hasn't Ubi released it yet?

Of course they would be much more feasible! But I think its Ubi or someone who decided against it (I think that was the agreed on scapegoat).
The modding community would have a field-day if it were out... maybe they're scared the modders will make something better than SH4.

There has to be some way the SDK can be got. What about a petition or something?
Or someone with hacking skills can try and steal it from the devs computers and release it on a p2p file sharing program... ;)

The thing is IMHO,Ubisoft is pretty stingy with the SDK's of the games they deal with.I dont think I have ever seen them release one to any of their games besides Brothers In Arms.

Besides another reason it may not be released is they may be using the same game engine in SH4 so there would it would make no sense to release it and have some modder make what they are trying to sell.

Though I do like the "They are afraid the modders will do better than they can" idea. :rotfl:

SDK for HL2 is out, that engine has a long way to go before it runs outta steam(pardon the pun). There's a whole community of modders out there who churn out content for Valve's steam marketplace, of course, anyone who has HL2 already knows this.

Yeah, the amount of mods being churned out for HL2 is awesome, yet valve is still doing well with it's own releases.
I really don't know what ubi has to lose by releasing the SDK.

Only the ability to sell SH4 for starters.

Since SH4 will be using the same game engine why would they release an SDK for it only to have some modders come along and release for free what they are trying to make to sell.

Well it's not like people aren't going to buy Half-Life 2 episodes because there are mods out there (and there are decent ones).

Why are the lazy bastards using the SH3 engine for SH4 anyway, when they never even finished SH3?
I guess I'll blame ubi, since they're the evil corporation.

I just hope SH4 includes the atlantic campaign with all the things they started to implement, and hopefully some engine tweaks while they're at it.
... or at least release the SDK after SH4 is out so the atlantic campaign can be reintegrated.