Hi guys,
Have been away for a few months so lots of new faces (hi all), and some old ones too, and a new VU, which I am just getting to grips with.
Reading through some of the news articles it seems like the one area that the devs need help with is clothing and I guess armor assets. I know a while back a few people tried making some of this stuff with Unity but not sure how much success there was.
So I was wondering if it would be worth considering looking at things a different way. What if a proportion of any donations was put aside for a clothing/armor project? I had a look in the unity store and there isn't much in the way of clothing there - plus I don't know technically whether it would work with the PI framework, but there might be something worth getting. And maybe there will be more stuff over time - armor packs are in there for $10 atm.
But as well as this could we approach one of the people that design stuff for unity - a small independent that might be interested in helping out for a good price? Even if we commissioned them for just one or two pieces of clothing as and when we had donations to cover it, we could grow the asset library over time. They might do a good deal if they knew there could be regular work for them.
For example in the asset store is this medical clothing pack:
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/19171
Not what we want I guess (unless we have some avatars with uniform fetishes ). But the company that made this have a website:
http://www.modelshark.com/contact
and they advertise that they take on freelance work.
I know that people reading this are probably thinking "that will be far too expensive" and maybe it will. But there are benefits to the asset designer - they get their work seen and it is used in a proper developing game. Presumably they could get their name credited somewhere. And who knows - they might really like the game and get hooked playing it. So there might be the possibility of getting a good deal.
I don't know how much money comes in in donations - and I realise that using money for this would mean it couldn't be used for other things, so it might not be viable. I just thought it might be something worth considering - nothing to lose in contacting some people and see what they say. My design skills are non-existent so as much as I would like to help I just can't, but I would consider putting a little money towards buying in assets in some form.
Just an idea anyway - be interested to see what everyone thinks, even if it's just to say it's a really dumb idea
Cheers,
Q