Ripping would mean we get the more advanced, better cars with minimal effort. The new cars are H3 and beyond, our current cars are H1. Not to say that everyone should rip everything all the time, but they shouldn't be shot down every time someone mentions them, either.

No, that would mean nothing new would ever come, and we would NEVER get more advanced cars, it would just destroy car brands because everyone is identical since they are clones of each other. Your world wont move forward until you do.

But someone would be moving forward, and it would do so at a faster rate, because any time an advancement was made, it could be ripped and shared by everyone. And then someone else will make something better, or improve on that, and then that'll get ripped, and the process would repeat.

No, someone would be moving backwards. Rather than working their real skills, they are working their thieving skills. And when you just take from other people, you don't work on your own stuff, you instead take from other people. Nobody would pour 5 billion dollars into researching something that someone will just steal the day the research is done, they will instead wait for someone else to complete that research to steal, in-turn making it so nobody does the research, and nobody moves forward, with all actual usable skills like inventing being tossed out the door, making them in fact move backwards.

"If you want something, do about it with your own strength. The last laugh goes to the earnest diligent one." --Hayate the Combat Butler, Episode 1

Ripping - Learn F all useful.

Glad to see I am NOT the only one who watches that show.

True, if ripping is all you're doing. If that's it, then I agree with you wholeheartedly, and it's just mooching off of Bungie (or whoever else)'s commercial work.

If you're ripping and ADAPTING to the work, then that's different; you're taking advantage of an existing resource, and saving time while applying your own skills, ideas and effort into a new work.
EDIT: This depends on exactly what you do, but.. more or less, that's what I think. Depends on the specific work in question.

I think you two are just in violent agreement; Echo77 meant adapting, not necessarily JUST ripping.

Am I wrong?
Edited by renegade343 on Aug 6, 2012 at 06:31 PM

Right, that's why I said "Not to say that everyone should rip everything all the time, but they shouldn't be shot down every time someone mentions them, either."

Some thing are done from the ground up, and they're decent, but some people can rip it, tweak it, and take it from decent to good. And some people just don't want to create assets from the ground up because it's too time consuming. There are some people who will rip and tweak, but if they couldn't do that, they simply wouldn't contribute anything at all in terms of maps and tags. And I'd rather have modified rips than nothing at all.
Edited by Echo77 on Aug 7, 2012 at 11:28 AM

All I see on this forum are just rips, hence why i shoot them down everytime. Not many people actually TRY and make custom content.

Ripping is also stupid as you can only take what is created, so if you want something new your then screwed.

No, you can look at how the models were created, the wireframe and unwrap but thats about it for anything learning wise.

I rip because i like what i make not because i dislike custom stuff, actually i am working on custom bsps
Edited by The_Arbiter on Aug 14, 2012 at 03:36 AM

Gotta make this when Halo 4 is out!




(Still uploading)



Edited by OHunterO on Aug 16, 2012 at 11:57 AM

..Well I haven't exactly been on these forums for a long time, so (at least for me personally) that theory and a month's worth of observation's all I know about all of y'all... I wasn't really aware of that, sorry.
But that is unfortunate -though half-a..ed effort with premade content still sounds better than absolutely no content being made at all, if you ask me.

but absolute no content is a result of rips being injected into the community.

model it for fun :

izza nighthawk

F302!

I've never grown to aesthetically like the Elephant until recently with Halo 4. That's just a cool design idea all together.

I'm still not entirely convinced it's an Elephant. It bears several similarities, but it's much larger, and has wheels instead of treads, and...

*is befuddled*

I highly doubt its called an Elephant, I just called it that as there is no other name for it at the moment. in terms of functionality and design it does look similar though aws it is just a HUGE moving base.. looks awesome in H4, sory about spelling and grammar, been town for drink!! :D

I once made a small game when I had a drink too many.
The goal of the game was to catch a goat in a field.

Ah yes, Catch the Goat was quite a game.

The irony is that was the name I first thought of when I saw it. Can't tell if great minds think alike or if it's incredibly predictable names for army vehicles.

The Dino.

Ah tah, forgot the name lol. And weirdly enough, drink makes me model faster and get bored quickly sometimes aha.



Sounds amazing LMAOOOO!

I've been working on some warthog shaders




Whaddya think

terrible

Edited by The_Arbiter on Aug 19, 2012 at 03:48 AM

I like how the carbine is dirtier than the warthog.

I think it's pretty nice, though?
It seems like on both shots (especially in The Arbiter's), the Hog seems a little bit more reflective and clean than it'd naturally look, though. Otherwise, I don't see too much wrong with it?

The shaders are the same as the Spartan's. xD

both have that crappy cel-shading look

Can't get around that, it's in the bitmaps

Btw I'm basing my dhaders off what it looks like on sandtrap

In h3


Mine so far


Aha just found my problem, the lighting is too dull, need to brighten up the bsp
Edited by killzone64 on Aug 19, 2012 at 02:56 PM

specialized shaders?

Ok thanks for the advice waffles, I'll do that in a bit

you can notice the dirt now

comments please

Best to surround your pictures with img tags for easy viewing :-)
It looks cool btw, but will it have some form of weaponry?
Edited by TM_updates on Aug 20, 2012 at 05:04 AM