Didact2401 Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 What is the policy is on recreating assets created by other mod authors from scratch. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didact2401 Posted July 20, 2014 Author Share Posted July 20, 2014 Anybody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ph0rce Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Personally I wouldn't see a problem with it provided that absolutely no content from the original is used (we've seen this done from time to time with content from previous Elder Scrolls games for example). Don't know if it's frowned upon by the community though; I'm hardly an expert on such subjects. Is the content that you're talking about from a mod for Skyrim? Or from another game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander9009 Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 As far as I know, you're safe where the rules are concerned (provided, as Ph0rce said, absolutely nothing from the original is used). I've never seen an instance of someone doing this and others saying they couldn't or shouldn't. However, I've also not seen many recreations to begin with, so that might be the only reason I haven't seen these issues. Unfortunately, I'm am also not an expert. On several occasions, I've seen mods be used as inspirations for almost identical mods with no issues. The only occasion I can think of that would come close is when someone suggested to EnaiSiaion (the creator of Apocalypse Spell Package and its many sibling mods) that he make familiars similar to SkyRe's, a couple others pointed out it would basically be a rip-off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didact2401 Posted July 21, 2014 Author Share Posted July 21, 2014 Recreations probably aren't common because most of the time they aren't necessary where the original exists. In this case, the original mod author has more or less disappeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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