Well...I am thinking that little comment probably will seal the deal and he is not going to release any more free stuff.
Maybe you didn't read some of his posts.
If he likes the texture that way then that's cool.
If you don't feel free to make a retexture...with his permission of course.
The Innovator has given a lot of stuff away free...a few of us have and the problem with that (and I will be the first to admit that it took me up until a few weeks ago to realize it and I have contributed to it) is that when you make free stuff for people they get lazy and don't want to learn how to do it themselves.
How many tutorials are in Tutorial city and floating around on these forums?
And how many people read and/or attempt to use them?
Not nearly enough people.
There are several forum members who used to do free stuff who won't anymore.
It's aggravating.
Before I learned how to animate weapons I imported a couple of weapons into FPSC and the request of others.
Then I heard about they weren't animated.
They were free and they worked in FPSC.
Then I learned how to animate weapons.
When I posted the first weapon I ever animated you know what the first post was?
"Where are the pickups?"
I just spent two hours alone texturing a weapon I gave away for free and somebody wants the pickups.
They can make their own in five minutes.
While there is nothing wrong with a little criticism it gets way out of hand.
I am sure that after the first post or two the innovator got the idea that there were those that may not have liked his texture.
I think he got the point.
Some of this was needless.
At any rate there will be a few kind people that release stuff free now and again but most of it is going to be for cash or (like a few people have been doing it) you contact the member and they decide if you should have the model or not.
And that's a good thing because then it will force everybody to step up their game instead of doing what they have been doing.
There is more than enough free stuff on these forums.
I don't think you will find this much free stuff anywhere else...not even on the other TGC forums.
My suggestion would be that we put it to good use...because I get this feeling that the well is about to run dry.
If we help people improve on what they are doing...and there are some posts which were made in this thread for just that purpose...we do a good thing.
If we keep doing things for others instead of teaching them,letting them or literally making them do it for themselves we are enabling their bad habit,thus becoming a crutch and we are more of a burden.
You know what the most aggravating thing is?
There are a few of us developers that do care about these forums and about making a great game...
Far too few.
You can release your models elsewhere and get a better response and FPSC members get the best deals of all.
Find another engine and see if you can get the kind of uber stuff in model pack 5 for that price...it costs more in some places for a gun,non-textured,non-animated.
If you don't believe me feel free to surf on over to Turbosquid and see.
That is my rant of the week.
