Crescent opened this issue on Apr 13, 2002 ยท 20 posts
hauksdottir posted Sun, 14 April 2002 at 5:51 AM
If I may add to this list... Please give us alternative views. Not all characters are going to be shown facing forward in the final art. Whether it is clothing or hair or whatever, I want to see the back and side views, too. Showing me 6 color variants without changing the orientation of the item merely tells me that you can use PhotoShop's hue and saturation dials; it doesn't give me any useful information as to the structure or shape of the mesh. Please be clear as to whether you are offering different textures (which means pattern variants, and maybe even transmaps) or offering different colors. Offering a selection of colors is helpful to those people who do not have a decent paint program, but it should not be sold as a group of textures. Please check, or have your testers check, to be sure that everything needed is in the file and under the proper locations and names. Having something refer to a file in a certain directory on YOUR harddrive doesn't do us much good (besides allowing us a peek at how you have your harddrive organized). Finally, please don't use self-extracting executables. .zips and .sits can be opened by both Mac and PC users. Perhaps a poll could be taken, but I suspect that a large number of people would rather place items in folders of their choice... especially with the recent proliferation. There is a lot more competition these days. If we know exactly what we are getting, it makes it easier for us to rationalize and purchase an item. If we are in doubt, it is likely that we will pass it by in favor of something else. Carolly