5133p39 Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 (edited) Bethesda has legally given permission to modders to modify the game and its assets as long as we do not accept ask for money for it. But re-distributing assets without modification is considered piracy. There is a difference and it's a simple one. So, if someone takes the texture pack, and modifies that pack by removing some files, only leaving what he considers neccessary minimum to still have some visual improvements while being able to run such pack on weaker computers - is that not a modification? If not, then would it be considered a modification if the modder also runs these textures through some pipeline to recompress them, would it be considered a modification then? Isn't that essentially what the Optimized Vanilla Textures mod did - give or take hand picking some/many textures to undergo some process or not?(i am not trying to belittle what the creator of that mod did, i am sure he spent lot of time and energy on it)How exactly is it different from redistributing the textures without running them through that pipeline?There is no added/changed artistic value, or is there?How is that suddenly a "proper allowed mod" while simply changing what the texture pack consists of, is not?Is it the time the modder spent on it? ...or what is it, that makes one texture repack legal, and another one illegal? Edited February 1, 2017 by 5133p39 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethreon Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 "So, if someone takes the texture pack, and modifies that pack by removing some files, only leaving what he considers neccessary minimum to still have some visual improvements while being able to run such pack on weaker computers - is that not a modification?" No, it's not a bloody modification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5133p39 Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 "So, if someone takes the texture pack, and modifies that pack by removing some files, only leaving what he considers neccessary minimum to still have some visual improvements while being able to run such pack on weaker computers - is that not a modification?" No, it's not a bloody modification.And recompressing the textures is a modification? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damanding Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 "So, if someone takes the texture pack, and modifies that pack by removing some files, only leaving what he considers neccessary minimum to still have some visual improvements while being able to run such pack on weaker computers - is that not a modification?" No, it's not a bloody modification.And recompressing the textures is a modification? The person who did the mod in question did more than just "compress" the textures. Unless you understand the technical stuff it's tough to explain, I don't even understand it all. But yes, they did actually modify the files, they didn't just run it through Winzip or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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