All of those authors cited in the credits file have been contacted for proper permissions and have given their consent through direct contact, or have done so in a text file included with the original authors creation. They will include a credits file (often overlooked by the end user) and those authors who have contributed to the work in the final release are acknowledged by name. These individuals will release their content (sometimes in "locked" form, sometimes it's "unlocked" for the public). When we look past the distracting side discussions, (like copyright/trademark issues that none of these game studios pursue), we see a small group of ambitious, energetic, and very generous individuals, that are willing to invest their own time and energy into creating something new for the games we all enjoy (like the GTA series). Depending on how long you've been in the community you'll hear this hot topic of "modder rights" come up over and over again. You cannot build a strong, healthy, happy community without having community members displaying mutual respect for one another. One of the LCPDFR's core ToS is "Respect" and for good reason. OpenFormats supported locking (in case people don't know, it's used for ped models) and, as LMS mentioned earlier, it's always possible to create obstacles to prevent people from editing a script mod. Trying to put pressure on modders isn't going to change that, it's even more likely that that's just going to chase them away from releasing at all.Įverything else being unlocked is not exactly true. Like probably every other modder I'd also wish I had access to every model ever created, but unfortunately that's just impossible. But as long as some do, people should respect that choice instead of acting like locked models completely ruin the community. It's a good thing many modders don't care about locking. I've been talking to many different modders, and right now, many feel like they're not accepted here on at all. Instead, modders are going to withdraw from the community, either by not releasing models or by just giving them to friends. I want people to understand that calling modders selfish because a model isn't unlocked won't change the fact that the model is locked. People don't know it was created, and people don't know why another car is locked. However, the person releasing a car is considered selfish, yet another person, who created a car and is not going to release it, is not.
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Usually, people don't even know the reasons why a mod wasn't released unlocked, and believe me, in many cases it's not the decision of the person releasing the car.
It's good we finally have a clear statement about this. You can't do anything about it, apart from preventing it, as far as possible. Most major websites let you report mods, but not at all. If somebody doesn't want to credit, he's just releasing on some other website.
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Currently, there's no clear view on all mods released. We don't have just a few modding websites we had around the time of IV's release. Honestly, without that experience with SA, many modders probably wouldn't have locked their models in IV. It was very common just to convert other models to SA without credits and many people then converted them back to IV, still without credits. When I started modding for IV, many of my skins were suddenly used in SA as well and the authors refused to credit at all. I guess you're talking about a different San Andreas, then. That's not a healthy atmosphere, probably causing even more modders to release on other websites with different users. Then you get a thread like this, people who don't mod themselves are trying to tell you what to do with your mods, or even worse, people who don't mod but still actually earn money with mods. Honestly, would you be surprised if even more modders left now? People post a picture of a converted CVPI and get 3 pages of discussion why it's not going to be unlocked, although the author didn't even say anything about that. I'm talking about people who are still releasing here. I can imagine who you're talking about, but no, they're not the ones I have in mind.
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