11-24-2009, 03:14 PM
Looks good to me now. 
But anyway, let me speak about my personal opinion about textures and 3D model rips.
I know there are quite a lot of textures on tSR now, even though we used to have it limited to just sprites in the past. In my personal opinion, I think that character textures don't have too much of a use by themselves, because you would need to have the 3D models to go with them. Stage textures are fine, though, because they usually have flat UV mapping, and therefore can be used for terrain easily.
I feel that submission Rule #7 needs to be revised in some way. I know that it says that 3D SNES rips (such as Star Fox) are acceptable, but -- let's face it. The Star Fox rips are from 3D models in that game. Heck, someone even made a model viewer for that game! If we can accept those, why couldn't we accept Boo Mario ripped from one angle/size, or even this Broozer from New Super Mario Bros. that was accepted a long time ago? They may be rendered at one angle and zoom level, but that doesn't make them not 3D models.
I say that if the 3D models are ripped with a consistent angle and zoom, and that the ripper supplies the textures to show that they are, in fact, 3D models, then they should be acceptable, because... Wasn't that the way they made the sprites for Donkey Kong Country? Having Rare's 3D models do animations from a fixed camera positioning, and putting them in-game?
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But anyway, let me speak about my personal opinion about textures and 3D model rips.
I know there are quite a lot of textures on tSR now, even though we used to have it limited to just sprites in the past. In my personal opinion, I think that character textures don't have too much of a use by themselves, because you would need to have the 3D models to go with them. Stage textures are fine, though, because they usually have flat UV mapping, and therefore can be used for terrain easily.
I feel that submission Rule #7 needs to be revised in some way. I know that it says that 3D SNES rips (such as Star Fox) are acceptable, but -- let's face it. The Star Fox rips are from 3D models in that game. Heck, someone even made a model viewer for that game! If we can accept those, why couldn't we accept Boo Mario ripped from one angle/size, or even this Broozer from New Super Mario Bros. that was accepted a long time ago? They may be rendered at one angle and zoom level, but that doesn't make them not 3D models.
I say that if the 3D models are ripped with a consistent angle and zoom, and that the ripper supplies the textures to show that they are, in fact, 3D models, then they should be acceptable, because... Wasn't that the way they made the sprites for Donkey Kong Country? Having Rare's 3D models do animations from a fixed camera positioning, and putting them in-game?
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