giopanda wrote:i never said he did something wrong, i just said that a public template wasn't needed, before ripping i think it's more logical to ask the creator if it's possible to make skins to be added to the template.
I think its more logical to release the template with the helmet. That way, any meat head who wants to make a skin can. Honestly, I don't care if its a quality skin, everyone has to start somewhere and if theres no available templates they have three options, ripping, kissing your ass, or making their own template.
Lets take Joe Blow, a new player who wants a custom helmet. Joe downloads the Shoei helmet and thinks its dope and decides to try to make himself a skin. After 10 seconds of searching for a template he gives up and makes a topic asking if there is a template available for the Shoei. He gets 10 replies, none of which are helpful, and 8 of 10 are downright just plain insults. Would you quit yet? Joe has a strong will and finally finds the wireframe. He goes about trying to make sense of what he sees there, nothing is labeled, and there is no available reference work. Would you quit yet? Joe once again persists and ends up with an absolutely terrible looking skin, he doesn't know how to make fabric patterns, and has no normal or spec map, god forbid he names it incorrectly and ends up posting a screenshot with your normal/spec map in it. (this part is for gio's wild imagination) After a few days on the forum he finally is able to discover that you are the one who made the template for the shoei, and dispatches you a pm asking if you would be willing to put his skin under your template. You take one look at his terrible skinning and ignore his message, "freakin' noobs!" After waiting 6 hours for you to reply Joe gives up on you helping him out. Later on that night he is playing in a server and meets another player who can send him a set of PNG's for the Shoei. Well hell yea, Joe finally gets a break and can finally get a look at what is what on the helmet. Still none of the parts are labeled, so other than the obvious why bother changing them. At long last Joe finally gets his still somewhat shitty looking custom helmet, but Joe is pleased with it. Do you think he cares that he borrowed some parts that he is unable to create? No. He's just pumped that he was able to make himself exactly the helmet he wanted. He knows that his work is not anywhere near the quality of whats available out there, but thats not the important part to him, he's just proud of himself that he was able to make the skin himself. (when I say skin I mean the painted parts of the helmet, not all the details, cuz he ripped those)
So how does having no available template benefit you gio? It only causes you, and the entire community trouble. If there were a template available Joe would have found it, made his own skin and nobody would get pissed off. If he posted pictures of it in the upcoming skin topic nobody would have a panic attack and some would even offer suggestions for improvement. Don't believe me, look at all the helpfulness going around with YZF skins recently, and look at how people react when a skin is posted that has ripped metals. Just release the damn templates already and quit with the elitist shit. None of the noobs are getting any better at creating skins by being chased away from the game.
Lastly gio, how can you have the first relevant post in my topic and not be addressing me? Just quit with the whining already. You troll here all day long looking for screenshots of ripped helmets. I offer an alternative to that and yet you show up and now suddenly offer to to put peoples skins under your template. Did it ever cross your narrow mind that people never bothered to ask for you to do that because you have a shitty and uncooperative attitude to everyone not in your clique?
Honestly, I'm super pumped right now that I spent 3 hours making this template so gio could come into my topic and offer to everyone to put their skins under his template. My work is no where near even 1/2 as good as his, and yet he feel threatened. Funny shit...
Enjoy!
