(MegaGrant) Iliad : Intelligent Layered Imaging Architecture for Drawing.

[Praxinos_Fabrice]

@Praxinos_Fabrice

Hi Muzaheed,

When we started Praxinos about one year ago, we were quite reluctant to share any source code we would have written. We were all used to closed source software because it was our background.
But with the time we had a better understanding of the philosophy behind Unreal Engine 4. Especially recently when we realized that may people would have to recompile iliad because they are using their own modified version of Unreal Engine 4.
So we changed our mind and decided to provide the source code with the plugin.

We are now 8 people in the company and as some people are working remotely, we are going do our annual meeting early in January in order to discuss our next roadmap.
I can not speak for all the associates & employees, but I’m pretty confident that we will keep providing the sources with the plug-in release (I personnaly prefer not to use the “open source” terminology as many people from Epic Games are not confortable use it either : https://forums.unrealengine.com/comm…ot-open-source ; also we are under the marketplace EULA, not under GPL like Blender, GIMP, etc.).
That being said, if there is an unique know-how, this specific part would then be a precompiled library, but it shouldn’t prevent to adapt the plugin and remaining C++ files to a custom build of UE4.

Pushing our GitHub sources for public access will probably be discussed and debated at the same time. We will make sure to keep you informed.

Ok, I have more answers now

As expected :

1. We will keep providing the sources with each plug-in release.
2. If there is an unique know-how, this specific part would then be a precompiled library, but it won’t prevent you to adapt the product to your custom version of UE4.
3. About the GitHub public access : since we are continually improving the code, there are changes every days. Also due to the size of the company, it might be hard to follow all the changes, pull requests, etc. that people would send us. So we will not do it at the moment. It’s still in our plans though. It’s just a matter of time and stability in the existing plugin code.