Seems all the talk is about paints for the MOD Bikes? I do hope your going to include the organisation of the paints for the default bikes too? It would be a crime to disregard them, don't you think?
I think that the organisation of a database(preferably via the MEGA Site) is essential for future proofing the large amount of skins that will eventually be created, and indeed are already created if you include the default bike skins into the equation, and to limit the number of skins allowed just so you can keep all paints directly in the Bike Mods paint files to reduce download size is a crazy idea; this would only lead to fragmentation of the paint organisation by others just posting their paints on other threads, and we'll end up back were we started with paint files all over the place. You need a place were anyone can find all paints for all bikes(MOD and Default) in one place.
Seems to me that you guys are making this all too complicated to the point were it will either not get off the ground or it will fail. Keep it simple guys.
I agree, if your going to have a file naming format then existing files will need to be renamed. But who is going to decide which paints are no longer in use or irrelevant, and how would that decision be made?
I think that the organisation of a database(preferably via the MEGA Site) is essential for future proofing the large amount of skins that will eventually be created, and indeed are already created if you include the default bike skins into the equation, and to limit the number of skins allowed just so you can keep all paints directly in the Bike Mods paint files to reduce download size is a crazy idea; this would only lead to fragmentation of the paint organisation by others just posting their paints on other threads, and we'll end up back were we started with paint files all over the place. You need a place were anyone can find all paints for all bikes(MOD and Default) in one place.
Seems to me that you guys are making this all too complicated to the point were it will either not get off the ground or it will fail. Keep it simple guys.
Quote from: iVolution on January 07, 2014, 10:43:58 PM
- The already existing paints have to be renamed first to comply with the naming convention, deleting not used or irrelevant paints in the process.
I agree, if your going to have a file naming format then existing files will need to be renamed. But who is going to decide which paints are no longer in use or irrelevant, and how would that decision be made?