Just to have it said.
When I started working on the SLR project the MTL options were really bad and there was even a short moment in time in which my Sugoi/dictionary hybrid was arguably the best option out there.
Now "AI" has evolved to the point that this project feels very outdated.
But I cannot really add support for more modern models because I neither have the necessary hardware, nor the funds to get that hardware. I can barely pay my bills.
Technically someone could provide me a remote server for testing to outsource the processing, but I just do not think that's worth it. Considering this is just for RPG Maker games this project is probably not for someone with a high end gaming rig anyway.
I still think SLR has a reason to exist because not everyone has a high end rig capable of running large models, and so SLR Translator is still the only free, as open source as possible, offline alternative for someone to get something "decent enough" to be able to finish a game without knowing Japanese, but I do not think I will develop it further besides fixing bugs/crashes reported to me. (And please do actually report them to me.)
I had plans to rework Scripts parsing for VX/Ace to make proper automation for it, as well as implementing automatic font changes and other QOL stuff, and at some point before my GPU died I was even working on an OCR system to automate the translation of picture based text, but given the hardware constraints and the complete lack of funding, these changes would ultimately just be a lot of unpaid work for incremental improvements to a project, that already gave up on being "good".
But if someone else has any ambitions for this project or finds parts of it useful, you can obviously change and redistribute any part of SLR however you like as long as you keep it open source. (GPLv3 license and all that.)
