I’ve seen some pretty rad re-textures lately but there’s not really a place to put them/share/nominate them. It would be extremely handy if we had an area for it to share and vote if nay or yay to be published in the catalog
I like this idea. It’s been needed for a long time (An occasional retexture being vote-published during a sale isn’t enough).
Brighteyes pretty regularly spots user retextures and will publish them if they’re good, but I think this is a pretty good idea. It’d definitely make it easier for her to find good retextures.
Hopefully we can resize/rotate/stretch the hat too <:
Would faces or body package retextures be allowed? Like this one made by someone in the community Daring Beard - Roblox
I’d love to see polyhex’s face decals on there too
This is so needed! :woohoo: It would give an easier outlet to find retextures for admins and for users retextures to be discovered. I know that there are some pretty amazing artists on this forum so i’m sure the submissions wouldn’t be bad. It would also open doors for people that specifically retexture to possibly join RBXDev!
BrightEyes and a couple other admins still actively run the Retexture Artists Official Channel.
This is a hub for all the things y’all have mentioned already. I don’t think we need a new method for this - the RAOC is still working great.
[quote] BrightEyes and a couple other admins still actively run the Retexture Artists Official Channel.
This is a hub for all the things y’all have mentioned already. I don’t think we need a new method for this - the RAOC is still working great. [/quote]
The only problem I had with RAOC was that it seemed like too much of a popularity contest, and often what gets retextures popular isn’t a good stream of ideas or a hat that demonstrates proficient ability. Instead, it’s usually your every day hat in a generic texture like bluesteel or rainbow made from existing images.
Now, I’m generalizing obviously, there are really great artists in that channel but I just feel the whole thing is too influenced by popularity.
I spent month after month drawing stuff like this (from scratch I add, not using any images) and sent it in to the people who reviewed stuff for the group:
http://www.roblox.com/Ice-Dragon-Helmet-done-item?id=104734247 - A very fantasy looking scaled helmet
http://www.roblox.com/Steampunk-hat-4-item?id=127649571 - Steampunk bomber hat with bandana and goggles
http://www.roblox.com/Galactic-Mercenary-4-item?id=102888999 - Influenced by the helmet from Crysis, unfortunately I only had paint.net at the time.
Most of the time the people who ran the group that I sent this to just said the ideas were uninteresting and to message them when something popular came up. I kind of got the impression that they just wanted more of the same old hats plastered in your generic textures. This was all years ago though, I couldn’t tell you who that was that reviewed the stuff now.
For now why aren’t more people posting retextures in “Look at this Cool Creation”?
TraeMan7 that’s because it would spam that forum. Unless there was simply a dedicated sticky thread for them, there?
RUBIES…
[quote] BrightEyes and a couple other admins still actively run the Retexture Artists Official Channel.
This is a hub for all the things y’all have mentioned already. I don’t think we need a new method for this - the RAOC is still working great. [/quote]
The only problem I had with RAOC was that it seemed like too much of a popularity contest, and often what gets retextures popular isn’t a good stream of ideas or a hat that demonstrates proficient ability. Instead, it’s usually your every day hat in a generic texture like bluesteel or rainbow made from existing images.
Now, I’m generalizing obviously, there are really great artists in that channel but I just feel the whole thing is too influenced by popularity.
I spent month after month drawing stuff like this (from scratch I add, not using any images) and sent it in to the people who reviewed stuff for the group:
http://www.roblox.com/Ice-Dragon-Helmet-done-item?id=104734247 - A very fantasy looking scaled helmet
http://www.roblox.com/Steampunk-hat-4-item?id=127649571 - Steampunk bomber hat with bandana and goggles
http://www.roblox.com/Galactic-Mercenary-4-item?id=102888999 - Influenced by the helmet from Crysis, unfortunately I only had paint.net at the time.
Most of the time the people who ran the group that I sent this to just said the ideas were uninteresting and to message them when something popular came up. I kind of got the impression that they just wanted more of the same old hats plastered in your generic textures. This was all years ago though, I couldn’t tell you who that was that reviewed the stuff now.[/quote]
I do agree with you that it seems like a lot of unoriginal hats get published - but I think that’s primarily due to those type of items’ popularity among the community. I mean, Rainbow hats/party shades/etc. sell a lot of copies.
BrightEyes and/or Tarabyte would be the ones to expound on this more.
But there is a lot of good, original stuff that goes through that channel. The problem is that when one person has a retexture published, everyone else tends to think “oh that’s what the admins must want to publish” so then various items are retextured with some of the same design elements and other stuff. That’s how these “trends” start.
Personally, I don’t like that. When people come to me asking to review their stuff for the channel, I usually challenge them to go and find so hats in the catalog that they can transform into something new.
They find a knight helmet - can they turn it into an alien head?
They find an hood - can they turn it into a space helmet? etc. etc.
And I always stress the importance of being able to create your own textures, not just using google images to find things to slap on an item. Not to say that it’s never ok to do that - using available textures is a great tactic - but it’s important to be able to create your own stuff when you need “fillers” or something just doesn’t quite sit right.
So yeah. It’s not a perfect group. But there are a lot of individuals in there who routinely produce high-quality items, in a good variety, that go out for publication.
Look through BrightEyes’ models. 90% of those come from the group wall.
self promotion ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ °)
[quote] self promotion ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ °)
http://www.roblox.com/Bombastic-Valkyrie-item?id=243160859 [/quote]
My retexture idea by using one of your textures Zac (now you have promotion? (I guess) and self-promotion)
http://www.roblox.com/Retexture-idea-Light-blonde-animazing-hair-item?id=291316162
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Please make it happen Roblox!
Please for Fiona, so she becomes an existent character in Roblox than just a fictional character in Tavo Poses!
[spoiler = Also, New pose representing this!]
Now live on Tavo Poses: http://www.roblox.com/games/167825251/Tavo-poses-and-more-READ-DESC[/spoiler]