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I notice ALOT of re-textures for mods going around, mostly for weapons and armor.

 

Do all these people get permission from the maker of the mod to do re-textures? If its a completely custom weapon or armor, then the original mod author had to have also made the texture from scratch.

 

So.. I am not sure, but is it ok to do a re-texture as long as it requires the main file, that way, its sort of like you are helping and promoting the needed mod, by bringing it again to peoples attention. You post your new re-texture, it goes up, people see it in the new mods section and then download the required mod.

 

 

I mainly am asking this because, IF re-textures don't require permission as long as they require the main file to work, why would a mesh be any different?

 

I made an edited mesh of a mash up of two armors from two different mods and made it so it required the main two mods. After uploading I realised I messed up the file path to the mesh, so it never worked anyway, but People commented more than once about permissions. I had credited and linked the authors of the main mod in my description, as well as made their mods a requirement. I deleted the mod after about a day of being up but have just been wondering about this.

 

Often, authors don't reply to messages, especially if their mod is hugely popular, but I have had messages from some that are very popular regarding permissions.

 

It's not that I don't bother to seek the permission, I just find sometimes authors don't reply or might just have a huge inbox full of unread messages that is overwhelming to deal with.

 

So, is permission generally needed for re-texture and if not, what makes editing a mesh different?

 

 

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Well it's quiet easy.

 

Whenever your mod contains assets from someone else (except the base game assets), you NEED permission when you want to publish your mod.

When you do a re-texture, you don't need the original texture but the UV maps only. So if you create a texture from scratch without using assets from the original mod author you don't need permission as you didn't used his/her assets.

 

Your mesh contains parts from meshes that were made by someone else. Of course you need permission to use them.

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