no like I said airmess is a nice guy and he wont take offense to you using his stuff even if you decide that your ego demands full credit for work you didnt even do.
I am sure HTC will let you add airmess and your name next to the credits and I would prefer you do this. if I submitted my 109k4 skin right now without building my own origional wethering details and panels and rivet lines this is what I would do. as is my skin would rightly be called
IV/JG4 by Airmess/Fester. in fact the quality factor would merit doing this as the skin does look excellent with his work I do question if I can do as well making my own from scratch but nevertheless the attempt will be made.
the only difference between your skin and mine right now is the colors. everything else is the same except I modified the spinner.
want to see what all the work you did actually looks like? well look below. take away what airmess did and post screenshots and you tell me who did most of the work
JG5 by Airmess/Truekill would be a true description of this skin.
you do realize airmess isnt even credited in game for making the default skins right? his name is nowhere on them it just says default but he made them all.
but this sums it up nicely...
One of these days I would like to sit down and look over what all of you have said and make my own
perhaps my biggest beef is the sheer pathetic crappy results that giving out a template to the masses will bring. I did this once the first time I made a skin it was the p40E. I thought it would be awsome if others could use all the work I put into accurate panels and rivets and detaisl for the warhawk to make some great skins.
the results ranged from MS paint 3 color abominations to outright forgeries. no one bothered to do anything more than add different colors and markings to the files I provided which were basic panels and rivets and hard to draw details without any effects. they took the layers made them transparent and submitted it basically as is.
so pretty much every p40E in game with exception to octavius work is made with my p40E template and it would give me great pleasure to make a bonfire out of all but maybe one of them. they are just that badly made. the only reason the got accepted with that littleeffort made was due to the template they colored. else there would be nothing to them.
the final insult to injury was a certain individual who got his skin accepted by pasting the skin I released on AH skins of the 49th FG p40E and making it darker and pasting it under the template again as is.. no effort made just black semi transparent lines... with my skin I did not intend for outright forgery of sitting right there looking back at me in a hideous dark shaded abomination. another tried to do this by pasting parts of another p40E I released on AH skins and posting pics from all angles of this skin they were to happy to take credit for making.
so you ask me why not release my work?
because releasing it only give people who already refuse to make an effort to do quality work the ability to have their horifically unresearched paintcheme cut and pasted and submitted and accepted in under an hour and in game clogging up my PC as a complete waste of space.
this isnt il2. making 3000 copies of 1 skins will do nothing but add further carnage to the players who dont know better than to download all skins.
if it were up to me and you should be glad its not the skin list would be gutted to the bare minimums for each plane to avoid the already crippling 4 gigabite skin cache problems that make using the whole skinset impossible.
