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mistermoonshine wrote: ↑30 Mar 2019, 19:23 last time I uploaded MindTex'd normal maps for a mod without asking the author I got suspended, which I don't personally agree with because they're kind of useless without the source textures, but they're the rules.

Jemolk wrote: ↑30 Mar 2019, 23:37 If you upload only the normals and make that very explicit, and that it is dependent on the original work, that really shouldn't be any different from uploading a plugin that's dependent on another one that you don't have permission to change and re-upload. That is, you shouldn't need permission. Unless the Nexus rules are really deranged with regard to textures, anyway. If they are, then maybe you can upload them to Great House Fliggerty once their server migration, which has been taking bloody years, is finally complete.

mistermoonshine wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 00:59

Jemolk wrote: ↑30 Mar 2019, 23:37 If you upload only the normals and make that very explicit, and that it is dependent on the original work, that really shouldn't be any different from uploading a plugin that's dependent on another one that you don't have permission to change and re-upload. That is, you shouldn't need permission. Unless the Nexus rules are really deranged with regard to textures, anyway. If they are, then maybe you can upload them to Great House Fliggerty once their server migration, which has been taking bloody years, is finally complete.

I did say that, even strictly said the normals won't work without downloading the original mod, but according to the nexus the normals were created from another author's textures so they require the permission of the original author to be uploaded. Nexus is extremely anal about mod permissions. It's kind of annoying and it's one of the biggest reasons there's so much modder princess drama on the nexus. But w/e, nothing any of us can do about it. I might upload them to GHF but I feel they'd be seen by a lot more people on the nexus.

AnyOldName3 wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 14:28 Normal maps made with MindTex are derivative works of the original textures, so from a copyright standpoint, the Nexus is doing the legally safe thing by stopping the upload when you don't have the original texture creator's permission.

ElderTroll wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 12:53 Loved the video. After some time has passed from the 0.45 release maybe the official channel could share your videos to keep up more enthusiasm.

Other potential overview videos:
1. TES3MP (something like a 10 minute overview)
2. The land generation tool
3. The save file importer

Definitely say/display which version you are using, that to see the latest progress on the feature to check the forums and bugtracker, and that assistance programming will speed up development.

Jemolk wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 18:47

AnyOldName3 wrote: ↑31 Mar 2019, 14:28 Normal maps made with MindTex are derivative works of the original textures, so from a copyright standpoint, the Nexus is doing the legally safe thing by stopping the upload when you don't have the original texture creator's permission.

Even when the originals are both needed and not included? Oh, goodie. Copyright law needs to be updated. And in the exact opposite direction corporate idiots are inclined to update it. It needs to be less cripplingly restrictive.

AnyOldName3 wrote: ↑01 Apr 2019, 00:10 While I agree that copyright law isn't fit for either modern society or even its original intended purpose, I'm pretty sure it would be hard to come up with a rule that would allow this kind of normal map, but disallow similar, but bad things. One such example would be running every frame of a silent movie through MindTex. It would obviously be worse than watching the actual film, and you could argue that it was intended to be used with some fancy VLC plugin to add some kind of effect while watching a legitimate copy of the film, but you could still watch the normal maps instead of the film if you didn't want to pay and you were allowed to upload normal maps of things.