Eric Reuter passed away in July 2024

[TigerTheGreat]

I've just found out about that. T. Elliot Cannon reported it on UnrealSP Discord.

May this talented unsung hero of Unreal rest in peace.

[Leo T_C_K]

So that's why he wasn't replying. Did he just find out too or did he know for a while?

EDIT: is there any link to his death and why? Did he become seriously ill or was it old age?

I know he was sometimes struggling to meet ends or however the phrase goes. As in he wasn't even able to pay for storage anymore and ten years ago he even had to go to his cabin at the lake to live there, out of any other options. But then things bettered for a while compared to how it was.
So I don't know how he was now before his death.

[Leo T_C_K]

They should really bloody dig up his old content and release it for free, he wished for that to happen. He originally didn't want Epic to release Amethyst etc commercially because of his falling out with them. However that is way past and he wanted to give me as much content as possible but couldn't because of his divorce in 2006 as his ex-wife's boyfriend destroyed most of his CDs. He only kept one Unreal beta disc that he didn't have password for anymore and that was the stuff that was taken into storage in 2008. If the volny e-mail and comcast didn't start blocking each other at the time due to volny appearing in some spam host list (due to some users abusing it or being cracked), then it would have been preserved, it was a version from March 1998. Because he had to move out at the time he put everything in storage and over time he couldn't pay for it anymore or get there on time to take it out.

What was completely finished by him was that Intel OEM pack, known under the label Fusion Creative Design. It was a separate addon that got/meant to be shipped with some Intel product but is very rare. I did unearth as much possible about it including reports about this pack happening in around january 1998 already. And then it just went nowhere. Nigel Kent was the person in Epic responsible for overseeing it and negotiating the Intel stuff. He did give me few names in Intel, but I couldn't get them to find anything in practice, so it just fizzled out after a lot of effort on my side.

Maybe Tim Sweeney has something stored in his vault I have no clue. When it comes to archives of old maps. At least some version of Amethyst should be on some CD right?

[Leo T_C_K]

just talked to myscha.
It was a heart attack. This really makes me sad.

[Leo T_C_K]

This is the tribute I had JackHonda make....

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[Leo T_C_K]

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This will get added into one of the Rise of Jrath maps of the upcoming full Episode 2 release.

There were lately more custom skins made, jackhonda became really good at making custom skins lately so this will be even more shown with more variety in the project...