Dave does bring up a good point about some creators dictating what can be done with an asset. I am of the opinion that if a person creates content for this game and is freeware, they can't stop others from modifying it.
If anything I am happy there are some creators that allow people to modify or reskin content such as Dave, majekear, whitepass, and others I may not be aware of. Without them creating the originals I wouldn't have stuff to mess around with in Trainz. With majekear specifically, I made myself known over the past year or so by practicing my reskin talents with his numerous autoracks on the DLS. Now there are over 600 reskins of them for people to choose from to enjoy.
With getting permission and the vagueness of licensing from some creators it can be a pickle or a roadblock when it comes to which items to skin. For example, many members here know me for my various reskins of Cloakedghost's 86ft autoparts boxes as shown in the reskin thread. Given he chose to release them as payware over the last few years, it does unfortunately leave me to keep them private due to the vague criteria of the licensing in the config files as far as reskinning them or getting permission to making skins of them freeware.
Hert also brings up a great point about users having to search for third-party missing dependencies for content. They cannot find them due to the missing content being apart of payware content packs, websites that shut down or disappeared, or are on websites/forums where a language barrier is present.
Forester also brings up another reason why some people don't release content (at least on the reskinning side), some people give up on those ideas due to some jerkish behavior from a few individuals. In this space, reskinners all had to start somewhere and it is a skill that takes time to figure out and learn.
If anything I am happy there are some creators that allow people to modify or reskin content such as Dave, majekear, whitepass, and others I may not be aware of. Without them creating the originals I wouldn't have stuff to mess around with in Trainz. With majekear specifically, I made myself known over the past year or so by practicing my reskin talents with his numerous autoracks on the DLS. Now there are over 600 reskins of them for people to choose from to enjoy.
With getting permission and the vagueness of licensing from some creators it can be a pickle or a roadblock when it comes to which items to skin. For example, many members here know me for my various reskins of Cloakedghost's 86ft autoparts boxes as shown in the reskin thread. Given he chose to release them as payware over the last few years, it does unfortunately leave me to keep them private due to the vague criteria of the licensing in the config files as far as reskinning them or getting permission to making skins of them freeware.
Hert also brings up a great point about users having to search for third-party missing dependencies for content. They cannot find them due to the missing content being apart of payware content packs, websites that shut down or disappeared, or are on websites/forums where a language barrier is present.
Forester also brings up another reason why some people don't release content (at least on the reskinning side), some people give up on those ideas due to some jerkish behavior from a few individuals. In this space, reskinners all had to start somewhere and it is a skill that takes time to figure out and learn.