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01-09-07, 02:57 PM | #1 |
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GFX Update for DW.
DW hasn't really had a GFX update at all. I have some models in various stages but I can't redo all the models that exist as was done with SCXIIC
If you remember after DW was first released I made a mod that took the SCX models and would install them into DW and I altered the databse accordingly for each relevant unit. Now I pulled the mod except for stuff I had made as it upset Thomas. Now I think this is a crying shame and Thomas has disappeared along with the rest of them. I sent a PM to Deep Six asking to use his models but no reply. Now it has been 1 and a bit maybe 2 years??? since DW was released DWX never materialised and I think the guys here deserve some nice looking models. I have decided to resurrect the model pack, include all the new models from SCX that replaced SCS models and send it out. I will list all credits as necessary and there will be no pretense on my part that I did all the work. Since I am stating my intensions from the outset I don't think it is unfair on the others like mbot, DeepSix who did the models and Mcarm, Ramius and Deep Six himself who did the paint jobs. Aprt from me it seems that there is no one else who was involved in SCX frequenting and posting in the DW forums. Over the past year or so I did PM Thomas about stuff but although he read the PMs he never replied. If anyone thinks this is a bad idea please state so here and in a rational manner. I am only doing this for the good of the DW community. |
01-09-07, 03:19 PM | #2 |
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I think that it is an excellent idea XabbaRus.
We can't live forever in the past of Sub Command and its excellent mods (legal and one not quite legal). In any case I find very very annoying that modders out of spite if nothing else wish that DW never had come along. With the 1.04 patch on the horizon, the lwami mod and hopefully the graphics update you're proposing DW will kick-ass once more. |
01-09-07, 03:33 PM | #3 |
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Good call Xabba. I can only say I support that effort fully, although I have nothing to do with the original SCX etc. DW will no doubt benefit from it.
Cheers Porphy
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01-09-07, 03:37 PM | #4 |
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Well said goldorak. Like goldorak, I think you should release it as you planned, with the credits going to whoever did the model or paint. I don't think that is wrong. After all it was released to be used in the community for SC. Why not DW?
The only caveat is that if Thomasew, McArm, or anybody else writes to you and directly asks you to not use it, I would follow their wishes respectfully. What a pity that would be though. |
01-09-07, 08:41 PM | #5 |
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When?
and Where? this sounds good (: Last edited by Eagle1_Division; 01-12-07 at 11:22 PM. |
01-10-07, 12:24 PM | #6 |
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This is great idea, especially given that those involved seem to be no longer active with respect to the boards and maybe the game too.
Now too bad we can't do the same thing with a "more driveables" mod. But SCS is protesting, even while they have no more resources to devote to the game to release an expansion pack.
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DWX = graphics update + lwami database mod + sensor realism mod. Give me DWX and I will be a happy camper for the next several years. |
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