RequiemLux wrote:I thought that, since he was showing the "cosmetic" improvement, the core of the mod was almost finished
Well core features are pretty much implemented, more or less. Some few things need polishing, some other are half-done due to various reasons like more research needed, could be improved, or whatever. But what's taking the most time is the GUI code. the resolution changes screwed up 95% of the GUI. Of course I could take the same approach D2MultiRes did, and that would be a 5 minute fix, but I wanted to add functionalities to the GUI, and that required a remake of the GUI code from scratch...
Just to give an idea to those very encouraging people that constantly come here with lame comments. Fully replacing just one GUI page is usually around more or less 1000 lines of code. Also keep in mind the research involved, the time taken to do stuff such as thinking of the most efficient way of doing something, fixing blizzard's dumbass stuff, developing new systems to implement some things more easily, testing in-game, etc.
It should also be noted that I do not have anyone making GUI images for me at the moment, Zartok doesn't seem to have much time anymore. And working with placeholder GUI would require me to do tons of little fixups later whenever the GUI is made. Although with things as they are now I might end up doing that still. But even then making placeholder GUI still does take time.