Forum: The Break Room


Subject: Insane or not? :)

3D-Mobster opened this issue on Sep 09, 2021 ยท 15 posts


SamTherapy posted Wed, 15 September 2021 at 4:36 PM

3D-Mobster posted at 4:32PM Wed, 15 September 2021 - #4427060

SamTherapy posted at 3:25PM Thu, 09 September 2021 - #4427050

@ Cryogen - you are right, of course, but the hobbyist market won't support that level of expenditure. It is, however, why I stopped making skins because they're a lot of work for little reward... if you do 'em right. I never used a pre made base and built up my skins from individual photos, which is very time consuming. At the end, you're competing against thousands of others, many of which were done quickly using base textures. They don't sell for long, either, so the end result is, lots of time and effort for next to nothing back.

Models, however, seem to have a higher perceived value, regardless of the effort involved. Now, I do put a lot of time and effort into my models - even the free ones - and in return, they stick around for longer. At the moment, there's only one on sale but I hope to get more out there soon. Anyhow, the level of effort is about the same, or similar, but the rewards tend to be more long term.

All that said, if I started charging hundreds - or even thousands - I'd probably sell the square root of fuck all. I'd rather get people buying my stuff than window shopping.

Its obvious a benefit if you can make objects, especially if they are PBR so you can sell the product for a long time, because PBR is not going away and my guess is that, it will only improve, so something you make now will also be good in 4-5 years, if it looks fine now. Where Firefly or these non PBR objects will die. I don't think they will be able to keep up.

The models themselves are provided with regular textures, compatible with Firefly. That's not a problem, since I always set things up with meaningfully named material zones, so you can go ahead and faff about with 'em however you like, substituting your own shaders if desired.

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