Wrong, it is impossible to loose files.
Problem #1: You don't know whether he's wrong or not. None of us know. It might be unlikely, unfeasible or implausible, but you cannot simply claim it as wrong. Opinion vs. opinion.
Problem #2: "Impossible to lose files", eh? Tell that to the hundreds of modders who have had hard drive failures, accidental deletions, power outages, and other problems. It is not only
possible to lose files, it's relatively likely & a relatively common problem of the digital age.
If perhaps you meant "they aren't
likely to have lost any files,
due to the probably existence of a network & shared files/resources while working on it", then sure. But say that.
Velkjom said:
I thought Blizzard avoided trees,doodads because they were lazy. They clearly could do it as you can see with mountain giant, cave entrance model etc.
They
can, and they do for things that are fixed to a particular tileset. But they had to make the racial structures (& units & heroes & such) able to fit/make sense regardless of the tileset.
I ran into this with someone else making a model for me; I was asking for an elite Troll warrior with a leafy cape, and he ended up using the Sunken Ruins treetop to make the 'cape'. And I tried to explain to him what I explained above; "sure, it'd look great in the Sunken Ruins... But what about Barrens? Or Northrend? Where do they get the leaves??"
It didn't work. I'm not using that model.