Quote: "I too agree with EAI"
Just to clarify (because being sick is making my head fuzzy), my point was that if he wants to give the stuff away for free, he shouldn't let some random person push him around via email. I'd like to know who it is and mods might as well since that could be considered harassment. If someone is losing major sales because of the availability of free media, they need to up their game and make sure their stuff is worth paying money for or seriously consider selling elsewhere if their work is good enough.
If Neodelito wants to sell his work, then I totally agree with Fallen One (he tends to be pretty insightful and on-target with indie. dev. issues). Personally, I hate media released for non-commercial use. It becomes a waste of hard drive space and a hassle to sort. And really, I'd think he wants to give these free because they seem to be speed-model and test exercises (though quite good). If he legitimately wants to sell work later, nobody should be stopping him from giving free stuff now to build an audience. But if the non-commercial free/commercial-paid scheme is just to appease some random person; tell them to take a hike because that's totally school-yard behavior. I don't think any reputable sellers in this community would even think of doing such a thing in the first place (makes me wonder how much random hate-mail Cosmic Prophet gets!).
Quote: "They'd be even better if _I maps worked"
I thought they were working in PBUM. Maybe it's for need of a properly configured HUD shader.