peter_spy

Sure!

I wish I had that time > gameplay ratio

With most of us having many RL obligations and less free time in general, that's a good idea. I'd be perfectly happy to both make and play FMs that focus on meaningful gameplay, and do that within 1-2 hours, so they're basically like a good movie.

So basically Steam Greenlight for mods

No idea, that probably depends on their EULA. Maybe they set up the platform and next they'll be issuing takedowns to those who won't comply.

Or maybe they just want to be a middleman and get cash for doing nothing. If you want to support content creators, you can always use Patreon or PayPal or whatever other option. Nobody needs that platform of theirs.

So, curated paid mods, apart from free mods. We'll see.

Is it possible to add your own clauses to that, like "you may not use these assets outside TDM without author's permission / please contact me"?

Most of my stuff is properly unwrapped anyway, so you can't do much with these textures unless you really know what you're doing. That should discourage most people. I'm more afraid about models being used outside the mod.

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That's a fair point. Although locking assets this way isn't bad either. You can improve things ad infinitum, and this way you have to take responsibility and submit something finished, not counting on others to do additional work.

It's not about money, more like sense of authorship. I don't want people to edit my photos or publish them without captions/proper credit) either, this is absolutely normal.

In Unreal engines you can use all the assets the way you want, but you can't export models or textures outside the editor to modify them. That's the kind of author's control I'm talking about, and I believe that might have been the reason for Epi's question.

That discussion deserves its own thread, IMO.

Does modding means zero control over the stuff you made? I don't think so. Maybe such disagreements over what modding is why engines like Unreal introduced packages.

I'm not saying what we do is art, but compare it to exhibiting a painting and letting everyone paint over it and display it in other galleries as well. Some authors may not like it.

Other more complicated cases include e.g. using paid textures as base (you can't distribute your work as an image, even if such paid texture is used as a layer in Gimp / just a component of your texture).

Kano, that's the problem: when you're an author, you don't want your stuff to be modified without your knowledge, and IMO Thief community is notorious for grabbing everything that's downloadable and doing whatever can be done with it (see Object repository thread on TTLG), so at least some control over your assets would be appreciated. Fortunately 3d ripper dx worked with DX9 games only.

It's not necessarily about selling FMs. If someone's making a lot of custom stuff, and just wants people to play the mission, without tampering with their stuff, there's no such option so far.

Four hours it's a decent time... For texturing a model, or making a decent material

Those Ti cards were amazing indeed, I had GTX 650 Ti for about 4 years. I'd probably have it for a bit longer, but decided to get something decent for Dishonored 2.

I think PinkDot tried to make a pagan map long time ago, but he was experienced character modeler. Wonder what happened with that project.