As we enter July we will soon mark 1 year since MG went down for good and in a few months 1 year of KE being live.

I'm just going to say this here and say it now.  In our minds KlubExile.com is the new ModsGarden. This is where the vast majority of the community contributes and interactus with each other and this is where the vast majority of modders post their goods.  ModsGarden.info, ModsGarden.Net, and Modsgarden.org are all KlubExile owned domains.  When we saw marketing companies trying to sit and squat on the main domain, we quickly swooped up the remaining main domains to ensure ownership remains with the community.  These domains all forward to KE, and hopefully help people find where the community is.

As we move towards a full year with 5300 members on KE, we are effectively keeping a level of distance between us and the development team.  While they are doing what they do and hope the succeed with V11...life goes on.  We represent a much wider larger community over 3 times the size and our focus needs to remain there.  Helping new members understand the game, helping upcoming modders become elite modders, and pushing the moding scene forward.

About the VX Install files.  As much as people hate to admit, the VX files on the Official TK17 Club were all taken from my Megalink were I stored the game and hook 5 files. So please be confident all game files downloaded from either KE or the KE Club do not contain malicious code as a certain person has insinuated. These are my own files I backed up on my Pro account before MG died.  The original files were on a free link that ultimately expired.

Look I'm going to be real, unlike a certain group of people the KE admins have always been straight up and transparent with the community we represent and serve and we will continue to do so. Yes we are here to provide a service to the community as a whole. No meaningless titles, No Leaders, and No manipulation schemes coming from us. We have always let you know were we stand and what we are doing, so that does not change.  In our eyes there is no leader of the TK17 Community...there is just the community and the people who step up to serve it. 

While the dev team has stopped work on VX that is what we mod on.  90% of the community are Hook5 users, and this is not just people who use PBR maps.  This is people who use Hairworks, Objects for Rooms, Tessellation for Skins, the list goes on.  Some seem to think Hook5 is just shaders..well yes that is one aspect of Hook5 but it is much more than that.  Hook5 does not even use the same PBR workflow as SV2 so while some say it will work converting a Specular PBR Workflow to a Metal one is not just about changing colors.

I digress but for those interested in the PBR Workflow Conversion Process check the link: https://marmoset.co/posts/pbr-texture-conversion/ hopefully that dev team takes some notes because unfortunately I have yet to see anything come out of the dev team that is even close to Hook5 (Don't believe the hype). I have used SV2 64Bit which are the same shaders and as they say...

"Hook5 just hits different"

I guess time will tell. In the mean time something to educate folks on what Hook5 really does.

In the end this is message is not meant to stir or flame it is meant to bring clarity where clarity does not exist. So on behalf of Smoke, Oz70NYC, x17, Gemini Kanon, and Euphie this is where we stand.

Cheers!!