by kahoona on Fri Sep 04, 2015 12:25 am
skoadam, I understand what you guys are saying. I agreed with Kevin that the logo should be a bit bigger than what it was in my preview, and would have done the same if madbaLL or anyone else said the same thing. But it felt like madbaLL was saying 'I don't look at, and use pictures of real courts' whilst I am making them. There are so many details that I try to get right, and so sometimes I haven't got them down perfectly in the preview stage. There have been releases of my courts that I haven't needed feedback, because I have been sure of what I am doing. Kevin told me to make the logo bigger. I didn't judge whether I would be changing with the court just because he said to make it bigger, when I saw his comment I looked at my screenshot in comparison to a real photo and saw that I should make it slightly bigger. Whereas if I hadn't have asked for feedback I probably wouldn't have noticed it, especially since it only needs to be marginally bigger. I didn't get mad at Kevin because he was giving me straight up feedback, if I disagreed with him I would have said I did. MadbaLL on the other hand started saying, "Why don't you use real life photos of the courts?", and to say that made me a bit angry, because I clearly do use real photos, but sometimes it is hard to make things look like their real life counter-parts, especially in the preview stage. Its almost unheard of to find birds eye view photos of the real courts, they are all from broadcast angles. So if I'm making textures that are from birds eye view, the proportions can't be exact. Hence why I said he is completely welcome to try and make accurate, high quality courts himself.
On a lighter note, I am glad to hear when anyone uses my courts. That is the goal when releasing mods to the community. I want people to be sure that my courts look good and are accurate in color and proportion to the real thing, so sometimes I need a bit of help with that.