Stop The Converting!

CommandoCommando Join Date: 2002-05-22 Member: 657Members, NS1 Playtester
<div class="IPBDescription">Starting to feel like CS 'modeling'...</div> Someone else drew my attention to this and I agree with their opinion.

Quit with the converting.

There are too many damn conversions, I want to see some originality! This is the kind of thing you get on most CS model sites, hacked together conversions of other peoples weapons, player models etc...

I don't make the rules here, but I think one of them should be no conversions. Go make some real models, get some practise in with Milkshape or similar and impress us (It's also a good skill, you can get some nice jobs in CAD!). Don't live off other peoples work.

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  • RedfordRedford Monorailcatfjord Join Date: 2002-04-28 Member: 528Members, NS1 Playtester
    edited November 2002
    OMG YOUR AVTAR HAS TO POINTE HAIR! IF I WAES HAVINGS TEH AVTAR IT WOULDNT BEING HAIR SO POINTY N00B!


    The previous comment exists because commando <i> asked </i> for a flame. I can find nothing wrong with commando's idea.

    EDIT - changed a critical error in the wording. Apparently it had been up in it's current form for a week, and RM starting harassing me in the EC chat. arrgh.
  • Dirty_JDirty_J Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6863Members
    you want originality you should do your own work

    modellers like me are too lazy to do our own work unless we are getting paid
    if you want to give me some money to make something i will, thats how i work
    i dont make my own stuff because there are always annoying retards who dont know
    a damned thing trying to critisize it for something completely ignorant


    oh well, convertings are also easier than making new models, so bleh
  • CommandoCommando Join Date: 2002-05-22 Member: 657Members, NS1 Playtester
    That's the lamest excuse I have ever heard.
  • NecroNecro &lt;insert non-birthday-related title here&gt; Join Date: 2002-08-09 Member: 1118Members
    dj not every modeler is as talent and can get paid, infact the majority can't.
  • DaphistoDaphisto Hive Janitor Join Date: 2002-11-16 Member: 8917Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    I completely agree with Dirty_J on this matter.
  • Dirty_JDirty_J Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6863Members
    well then those people who actually like modelling still should do models then
    but i find it easier to just convert something rather than waste my time on something
    half assed, im all for people making new stuff but i doubt i ever would, im sure we can
    get some people here who will make some cool weapon replacements cause thats all anybody
    actually models nowadays
  • BlackPantherBlackPanther Join Date: 2002-02-11 Member: 197Members
    I'm a modeler and i have been one for 4 years.

    Each and every time i see someone converting one of my models for another mod, I take it as a compliment.

    The fact that someone likes my model enough to spend hours converting it for another mod is a great feeling.

    Plus, it gives new life to the model.

    I also do conversions. I did a ton of them for the Firearms mod. Hell, im sort of a "converting god" over at their modeling forum! I even did a few tutorials.

    Chill out guys. NS was just released a few weeks ago. You can't expect people to start dishing out models as fast as they did in the CS modeling community.

    For me, the #1 reason i don't model much anymore, is that i can never find a good skinner/skinmesher for my models. I've got dozens of models that will probably never get released unless i find a few good skinners.
  • Annihilator-X17Annihilator-X17 Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5664Members
    I'm sorry, but yelling at people because they decide to make a gun they like usable, and then release it so other people can enjoy it as well, just seems somewhat silly.
    I've seen BP model for a year? 2 years? now, and I think I've only seen a couple released. There are very few good skinmeshers, animators, and skinners, of the type you'd need for this mod.
    I've released large quantities of models (300+ I guess by now) that I converted, and the only people I find who complain about converting are modelers and skinners who aren't very good, and so their work gets ignored.
    Also, this isn't a long established mod with a built up community, its been out a month, and almost no one I know can create more than 1-2 finished products that fast. You want original models, either make them yourself, or drag in people from outside.
  • blue2kblue2k Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4025Members
    i model everything, players weapons and map model i really dont see the distinction between any of them, there all very easy for me. if i release a model for ns it wouldnt be a conversion or a reskin but a totally new model. not everyone has modelled as long as me though so some people may find a certain type of modelling quite hard to begin with. all you can do is keep practising until your competant.
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Conversions aren't done because someone can. They are done because they want to use the model in the mod, and figure other people might want to also. Just because there happen to be alot of models that would work in NS doesn't mean you shouldn't convert them.
  • Sentinel1Sentinel1 Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7356Members
    edited November 2002
    Personally I don't care if the conversions are pouring in..as long a sthere is a lively productive community (productive being producing effective models which I like)..

    If U don't like the conversions..who cares? That's personal opinion..we all have rights to be lazy..although i must say it's a sad thing when we have few enthusiastic modlers, one enthusiastic modler is Black panther, he likes what he does..and likes to c our community flourish :x..I like innovative ideas which are new but some I don't like....some conversions suck and some I like..it shouldn't matter if they have been converted if u like them ..u like them and vice versa
  • LancerEvoXLancerEvoX Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2277Members
    Personally, i'm converting models. I get two things out of it, learning how to model (like i learned how to assign vertexes to bones, and lots of other stuff), and it puts out models people can use. If u don't like conversions, then don't use it. Problem solved.
  • SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    bah! who care, honestly, its not hurting anyone ,and if u dont like it dont use it, it would be different if u HAD to use it, which would be argueable, but if someone likes a model they see in another game and think NS would be more fun with it why should they have to remake it from scratch? its a game? its not like someone is stealing blueprints to a house and then tweaking things using autoCAD and then selling it or something
  • KatsuroKatsuro Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4809Members
    As a mad convertor of guns, i will respond. I convert models for 2 reasons.

    1. Its something I personally want to use, and i release it because other people might want to use it also.
    2. Someone requested something to be converted and I did it to fill request.
  • VecdranVecdran Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2323Members
    Reskins are my forte


    But I'm slowly learning how to really skin from scratch.

    Hella hard.
  • BlackPantherBlackPanther Join Date: 2002-02-11 Member: 197Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Annihilator-X17+Nov 19 2002, 04:56 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Annihilator-X17 @ Nov 19 2002, 04:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I've seen BP model for a year? 2 years? now, and I think I've only seen a couple released. There are very few good skinmeshers, animators, and skinners, of the type you'd need for this mod.
    I've released large quantities of models (300+ I guess by now) that I converted, and the only people I find who complain about converting are modelers and skinners who aren't very good, and so their work gets ignored.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Close to 5 years.
    Only been modeling for HL for 3.
    Before that, i was doing 3d models for Jedi Knight : Dark Forces 2

    And i release very little stuff, because i aim for quality, not quantity.
    I've done over 500 models in my time. (sadly most were lost during my big HD crash of june <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> )
  • Annihilator-X17Annihilator-X17 Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5664Members
    well, yah, but *I* only saw you for 2 years =]
    and I'm that convert freak [HR]Hellraiser <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • BiTMAPBiTMAP Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7685Members
    you guys totaly missed the point. The beef is that there is nothign Original coming out of here, and it saddens me! Such an orignal mod and everything is everyone realeaseing a AVP or Starcraft pack
    I want something crazy that is orignal.
  • MoebiusMoebius Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1045Members, Constellation
    Conversions, Theiving, and playing Chop Shop with another person's model should be illegal unless specified by the models maker.
  • def_onedef_one Join Date: 2002-05-21 Member: 641Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--BiTMAP+Nov 20 2002, 04:33 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BiTMAP @ Nov 20 2002, 04:33 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Such an orignal mod and everything is everyone realeaseing a AVP or Starcraft pack
    I want something crazy that is orignal.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    amen brother.
  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--BiTMAP+Nov 20 2002, 02:33 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BiTMAP @ Nov 20 2002, 02:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->
    I want something crazy that is orignal.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Working on it.... I'm no modeller, more of a concept artist. More info soon....


    I'm going to post my comments on this tomorrow, right now SLEEEEEP.
  • Ir0nFr3nzyIr0nFr3nzy Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7840Members
    edited November 2002
    who really gives a crap...some people are just lazy so they convert...other people take time to make a model...theres diffrent groups here..the converters and the modelers...i really dont understand the point of this forum..i mean come on if it looks good use it..dont flame people cause of there work on something..even if its not really there work...if it makes someone go ooooo ahhhhhhhh then it must be good...and for people complaining about o there isnt any original models out yet...well give the game some time to get popular..(wich i have no doubt it will be) then maybe some modelers will start modeling for this game (when i use the term modeling i dont mean naked or trying out swimsuits for natural selection)
  • 0see30see3 Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4388Members
    the mod hasen't even been out a month. Original work will take a while and much inspiration. That happens with time, just like anything else worth waiting for. Until that time, you're gonna see a mammoth load of reskins and conversions. Some good, some bad, but that's better than absolutely nothing.

    I think people need to stop complaining that people want custom models, that just happen to be already made for other hl mods. Many things can fit into this mod, especially with the design, and it's only natural that all of that stuff will be done before original works comes about.

    Give it time, give it time, and please, give the "conversion bashing" a rest. Use what you like, if you don't like something, don't use it, and don't say a word. Constructive critisism has a place, but not needless spam about why you don't understand how people could want new models, or why they aren't making original work instead of this "crap". It's pointless and it just starts flamewars.
  • BlackPantherBlackPanther Join Date: 2002-02-11 Member: 197Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Annihilator-X17+Nov 19 2002, 10:05 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Annihilator-X17 @ Nov 19 2002, 10:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->well, yah, but *I* only saw you for 2 years =]
    and I'm that convert freak [HR]Hellraiser <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    IT'S YOU!

    <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Annihilator-X17Annihilator-X17 Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5664Members
    allo BP =)
    nice to see you remember me <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • bathorybathory Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 7990Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Such an orignal mod and everything is everyone realeaseing a AVP or Starcraft pack
    I want something crazy that is orignal.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    if you want something crazy and original, make your own stuff if you aren't happy at the rate in which things are going.
  • DesolationDesolation Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5799Members
    edited November 2002
    there really hasn't been that many conversions here either, i wouldn't mind seeing an original pack but like |0see3| said the model community is new and it takes time for some people to take intrest in the mod.
  • qtigerqtiger Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9421Members
    I have nothing wrong with converters... except with they call themselves modelers/skinners. Then I roll my eyes and laugh.
  • SovKhanSovKhan Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7099Members
    dirty_j = correct


    make your own origional works or stfu
  • Ir0nFr3nzyIr0nFr3nzy Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7840Members
    SHHHH ahhh everyone calm down...its just a god damned game.....do you not enjoy playing it?<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> i think the major concerns we need to face is hackers...they kill the whole perspective of gameplay...i really dont wanna see this mod fall victim to cheaters....CS was and still is a great game...but as you can see theres always a hacker out there who has to **obscenity** it up and ruin gameplay for everyone....i really dont think argueing about skins and models is something to even be argueing about...i like to support modelers/skinners...i even like to support converters... cause there the ones trying to keep games alive..all you have to do is change the looks of a model and it will want to make thousands more people who are tired of the same ol models wanna play the game more cause it now has a new feel with the new models....so stop flameing eachother for stoopid things...worry about the hacking ...if ur a defacer try defacing www.myg0t.com for me eh..there the leading group of screwing up games
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