EverTrainz
Electric Blue
Hello,
I would just like to take a moment to ask this question on behalf of many other aspiring content creators. Remember, back in the Elder days, where many could group together to produce one large result, better than all other smaller results combined? Neither do I.
But, N3V has given the key to content creation to us, the community. Perhaps, just maybe, we could get along and collaborate without much fuss over 'rights' and 'distribution'? Assembly line fashion, anyone? Suppose a group of 5 working on a locomotive. That's 5 times more accurate, faster, and thorough, than if a single person was creating it. Some people working on each piece, and it'd be over before you knew it.
You may be asking, if one needs help, why not just ask in the forums, rather than obliging 4 others to do what he should've been able to do himself? The answer lies in simple psychology. People are always needing help, no matter what the case. We're just too ashamed, arrogant, or haughty to admit it. Does someone just go into a project with a set of drawings saying, "I know all I need to know before starting this. I can shut off the internet for a solid month and come out with a bang-on model." (and succeed)? No, never, not going to happen.
It's still going to take a while to build it, even if most information is at-hand. If we band together, we can shrink that 6-month build period into 1 month, and still get better results. However, we as content creators, have evolved to be independent of others. Should this idea take off, we must only rely on others for knowledge, and information. Building meshes and scripting locos could also be thrown about the hands, but only to a certain degree. We have full time jobs, yes. But, we could spend the same time out on a 90%-sure-to-end-up-as-vaporware project as we could building and being productive together.
Most-likely, this is me out on one of those high-time whims I get, but it's a good idea nonetheless. If anyone is interested, for my period (BR pioneer diesels) please let me know soon. It's an opinion, all right, but if everyone cooperates, we can match the content palette of the TS series in no time.
Much regards, Ron
I would just like to take a moment to ask this question on behalf of many other aspiring content creators. Remember, back in the Elder days, where many could group together to produce one large result, better than all other smaller results combined? Neither do I.
But, N3V has given the key to content creation to us, the community. Perhaps, just maybe, we could get along and collaborate without much fuss over 'rights' and 'distribution'? Assembly line fashion, anyone? Suppose a group of 5 working on a locomotive. That's 5 times more accurate, faster, and thorough, than if a single person was creating it. Some people working on each piece, and it'd be over before you knew it.
You may be asking, if one needs help, why not just ask in the forums, rather than obliging 4 others to do what he should've been able to do himself? The answer lies in simple psychology. People are always needing help, no matter what the case. We're just too ashamed, arrogant, or haughty to admit it. Does someone just go into a project with a set of drawings saying, "I know all I need to know before starting this. I can shut off the internet for a solid month and come out with a bang-on model." (and succeed)? No, never, not going to happen.
It's still going to take a while to build it, even if most information is at-hand. If we band together, we can shrink that 6-month build period into 1 month, and still get better results. However, we as content creators, have evolved to be independent of others. Should this idea take off, we must only rely on others for knowledge, and information. Building meshes and scripting locos could also be thrown about the hands, but only to a certain degree. We have full time jobs, yes. But, we could spend the same time out on a 90%-sure-to-end-up-as-vaporware project as we could building and being productive together.
Most-likely, this is me out on one of those high-time whims I get, but it's a good idea nonetheless. If anyone is interested, for my period (BR pioneer diesels) please let me know soon. It's an opinion, all right, but if everyone cooperates, we can match the content palette of the TS series in no time.
Much regards, Ron
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