[Request] "Animators Resource" section

[Fallenleader]

Animations from games are often more difficult to rip from games. Most of the time, people downloading models from the resource, often create the animations themselves. If the rippers choose to rip animations, and include them in their rips, that's their choice to do so. Not just on the models resource. but the Textures and Sprites resource. I just don't think having a separate site for animations only is worth it; it will take up precious server space, and may even be devoid of content. I'm all for animations being added, but I don't think this is the way to do it.

Your comment makes a lot of sense, and I actually didn't consider that animation ripping was that hard to do. I understood the server side of things, and due to this I propose another option: to add animations as an additional section to the models resource on a per game basis, thus eliminating an entirely new section.

The lack of a section for this makes sharing animations tedious, and including them in currently uploaded models is going to be a lot of work for MR staff, not to mention pushing credits and whatever else. I can foresee an issue later without a subsection for animations provided for already uploaded models.

Granted, programs like 3DS Max can (and from what I can tell does) embed animations into the models themselves, but if the animations from the game are ripped separately and the requirement is to embed them, it causes further issues, thus the reason I didn't find that to be an option.

As it stands, I personally would love to see a section dedicated for animations, whether it be a per game basis on the models resource, or a section dedicated to animations.
As mentioned before, taking a single model and doing one or two simple animations isn't all that difficult. The real problem comes into play when you have hundreds of animations to program. Having a section to share them whether with the models, or independently allows members at least something basic to go from, rather than having to do everything by hand from scratch. If a member wants to do original animations, that is still possible too.

This is my reasoning for bringing this up and making a poll

Do note that regardless of the decision, I WILL be hosting the animations somewhere. I figured bringing this up and getting something figured out in advance would be beneficial to this site.