UNREALONE1
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Is there a method to Reverse Compile LScript?
There is no Easy way to do it. The difficulty starts at hard, and borders on the impossible in some cases. The tools are out there, but you have to know what you're doing with them, and it might takes months to do so, and you still might not be successful. It's very hard work to do - I've done some software decompiling. You would be better off in learning how to from scratch, starting with the examples given in the SDK, for either C or Python.oh, even worse
no, there is no way to do that.
[I deleted my original post about modifying a freeware program to suit my needs at the time (20+ years ago)]There is no Easy way to do it. The difficulty starts at hard, and borders on the impossible in some cases. The tools are out there, but you have to know what you're doing with them, and it might takes months to do so, and you still might not be successful. It's very hard work to do - I've done some software decompiling. You would be better off in learning how to from scratch, starting with the examples given in the SDK, for either C or Python.
Anything based off a bytecode / virtual machine language (.NET languages, Java, Python, etc.) is magnitudes easier than optimized C executables or libraries. And even then, there are ways to keep it from happening, because obfuscation libraries are a thing.
My recommendation is to get a copy of visual studio, find some tutorials on coding a lightwave plugin in C, and start in. It will be fewer headaches and legal issues, and less time spent.
I understand this is what passes for ancient history, and I can't say I have a floppy disk with AuraDV kicking around anywhere these days, but the typical approach to such things was to embed the EULA in the installer. I appreciate that you made an effort to be ethical, but It does not greatly surprise me that printed matter with a cover disk was not exhaustive. I can, however, assure you that NewTek owned it, as contemporary references imply (although there is a good deal of misinformation online about related topics):If have this wrong, by all means let me know.
And the above really is all moot because I stopped using the program something like over 15 years ago.
Nothing is abandoned. Copyright means you as the author have the right to control whether your creation is copied. If you discontinue sales/distribution of your creation, you are exercising your copyright. You are not abandoning it....But if the plugin was effectively abandoned by the author/owner many years ago, I'm not sure how copyright applies in that case.
...I can, however, assure you that NewTek owned it...