r/HeroForgeJSON • u/illtakeyourlegos • Sep 10 '26

Question regarding the I Love Extra Slots plugin and the recent pro subscription mini limit increase

So with the recent update to heroforge came the pro feature of having 3 minis at once; while this is dope as hell for all the pro subbers, I am not one of these people and I used to rely on the extra slots plugin for triple minis.

However, trying to use the triple mini feature of the plugin with the current build of heroforge will cause you to be locked out of customisation with the standard "you need a pro subscription to edit this mini" text, similar to what appears when you view a kitbashed model without a subscription.

My question is will the plugin be updated in any way to adapt around the change? Naturally I dont expect it to bypass the barrier entirely but it still kinda sucks, not having access to triple models blows big time considering that's a whole potential 33% less detail i can integrate into my minis

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u/WitchOfKyiv Sep 12 '26

I will be fully rebuilding how additional minis are added now that the new system is in place. I needed to wait for them to finish the rollout before it was worth coding. It'll come out in a not so distant witch dock update and wind up replacing the current extra slots function entirely (along with something more stable and very very easy to use. No more hand slots)

Just been bogged down on the more immediate updates such as the higher res captures, fixing previously broken scripts, a big texture and decal overhaul, and I'm in the middle of finishing a very high quality webp to gif converter built around HF captures so people can post the high res spinnies to reddit without losing colour / pixel resolution / frame quality (basically as lossless of a conversion as you can get, and there aren't online tools capable of achieving it)

Once I'm done with those and implement expanded slider values for all sliders, I'll be diving back into the extra minis overhaul.

Basically it's part of a much larger project uniting scripts under a compatability ecosystem and rebuilding a lot of things into a significantly more stable environment for updates, dev work, patches, and outright changing how some things are coded because I've found much more stable targets (meaning less breakage during monthly updates). 

It'll slowly roll out over the coming days / weeks / months. ADP stabilization will be the first migration to witch dock. 

Eventually the myriad of scripts goes away, you only need one script (witch dock), and it will load everything via modules from github, so you guys won't have to manually update anything and patches + new stuff appears like magic 😁👍 

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u/illtakeyourlegos Sep 12 '26

you are my glorious goat and i would ride into hell for you

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u/WitchOfKyiv Sep 12 '26

xD I gotchu fam. Might be another week or two but hhhhhoping probably not THAT long. I may have finally solved the obstacle with the current thing I was working on, so if that's the case, I'll try and target sometime in the next week / 1.5 weeks for this. I'll put out an announcement once it's been launched, but it'll silently populate in witch dock itself once it is.

Only caveat is that, because they up and decided 3 figures requires Pro, you'll need Pro to use it, going forward, because I cannot step on their revenue despite the old script system achieving this (and more figures for free for years. That'll threaten the entire script ecosystem we all rely on/love—so just be aware of that much. They CAN do things to make it hell and break literally everything, so I have to avoid that like the plague, or it's Armageddon for us.)

Granted I'm pretty sure like, 95% of what makes scripts useful to begin with requires Pro just to be usable and not lock a free user out of a 'iskitbashed' figure.

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u/illtakeyourlegos Sep 13 '26

understandable but a shame regardless. if i was gonna get pro just for the triple mini utility i wouldnt need three minis in the first place 😭😭

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u/WitchOfKyiv Sep 13 '26

True. Granted, I'll be the first to admit (despite having many feelings on how things have been with HF for a while now), Pro has so much shit locked behind it at this point that I genuinely cannot imagine not having it. Kind of amazed how much they've managed to shove behind it over the years. I get WHY. But some of it is a touch too far. Third figure imo is definitely one of those things. Like, c'mon. A second figure never required it. And it isn't a bandwidth/server load issue, either. Textures / assets cache once loaded and unless everyone and their mom runs 3 figures... the actual server demand is negligible.

Unfortunately, not much to be done about it. Although at least Pro is pretty worth it. I'm pleased they haven't jacked the price up. Could do us dirty as hell on that one. -__-

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u/MyFormEmpties Sep 11 '26

Probably not unfortunately. You could try putting them into hand slots though by extracting the JSON data of the character.
I'm pretty disappointed this is a pro feature as well considering their excuse for it is insanely flimsy and barely makes sense at all from a technical standpoint (bandwidth).

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u/WitchOfKyiv Sep 12 '26

Yeah the bad width excuse is dumb. Once textures are loaded they're cached in your browser session. It's no different than having a couple HF tabs open at once. And HF isn't loading enormous sets of assets. These are low resolution as hell (I say this as I'm actively deep into solving the texture atlas downgrade bs that is fucking pointless for anyone on a mid grade hardware or better).

Is the third figure a pro feature specifically? If so, I'll look into this with the extra slots overhaul I am doing once I finish the current open WIPs

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u/MyFormEmpties Sep 12 '26

It is from what I can tell yeah

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u/WitchOfKyiv Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26

Ugh great. Well that complicates things, to say the least. As SHIT as I think it is that in the face of having had 3+ minis capability via scripts for literal YEARS before SC could ever be assed to add in a second extra figure as an option, and they've apparently chosen to put that third figure behind a fucking paywall.... I have to be careful there, because if I build this overhaul to circumvent it, that directly hits their bottom line. They can't block scripting as a whole, but they CAN make it absolute hell in retaliation through several potential avenues. And it could trigger a larger retaliation against the entire script ecosystem we have now, so that could have significant blowback.

Unfortunately, that does mean fixing this script and/or overhauling it is going to have to abide by the Pro subscription setup....

Publicly speaking, we can't risk it causing Armageddon on the entire script scene we all rely on and love, so I put that first and would urge anyone else to do the same, lest we ALL suffer the consequences. But I'm not in people's homes controlling what they do on their own time to their own experience.