it couldnt be too hard to rip them out of them mod and make a new one to add them in the game...for our own game and not share without permission obviously .... but i dont know where to start in order to make this happen.
You'd basically just need to know what files/folders are used for making ships. Go, snatch all those out into a new mod. Then, because these are all balanced for VRO I am pretty sure, you'd need to rebalance everything.
If I were doing it, I'd create a checklist for all the files for each ship I wanted to snatch. Go through and make sure each ship I wanted to grab had all its files pulled out. Then, you need to go into the wares files and any other similar files, and purge them of everything not associated with those shops (Jobs.xml as well).
After that, if you're doing it for vanilla, you need to rebalance everything for vanilla. So, it wouldn't really take much technical skill, but it would take awhile to do. I've thought about doing this myself, but, uh, yea, lot of time.
Its even more difficult if there are mesh issues, texture issues, or shader issues because some of these ships have dependencies on other files in these mods.
Please check Permissions tab on RE's page before making promises. RE team does not give approval to publish ships or other assets extracted from our mods.
In fact - the similar applies to RoR, which you also already published assets from - unless you have Sco's approval.
Yeah, she told me I could extract the Lynx from her mod quite some time ago. I repeatedly asked her to extract just the split ship, but she was simply too busy. I also said that I "could" do that, not that I "will" do that. I am not sure why you won't let someone make it available to people who really want a standalone version. Its one ship.
Some modders go nuts with possession complex ( just like publishers ).
Assets are just that - assets, even if they are "result of many months of hard collaborative work of a number of modders". Publishing some of them as standalone mods should not be prohibited, especially if they are for the same game and made with vanilla assets themselves ( which is hypocritical if you ask me ). Of course the credit to original mod author must be provided!
If the reason for refusal is "We don't want to maintain the 100+ mods", then give that job to the modder who published the sub-mod. With explicit statement: "If it breaks - your problem" and "NO donations using OUR work!".
Siting on the awesome ships like chicken on the eggs and proclaiming "It either our mega-mod or GTFO" is against the spirit of modding. 90% of users play vanilla, and just want to modify SOME parts of the game, without totally changing the experience.
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You'd basically just need to know what files/folders are used for making ships. Go, snatch all those out into a new mod. Then, because these are all balanced for VRO I am pretty sure, you'd need to rebalance everything.
If I were doing it, I'd create a checklist for all the files for each ship I wanted to snatch. Go through and make sure each ship I wanted to grab had all its files pulled out. Then, you need to go into the wares files and any other similar files, and purge them of everything not associated with those shops (Jobs.xml as well).
After that, if you're doing it for vanilla, you need to rebalance everything for vanilla. So, it wouldn't really take much technical skill, but it would take awhile to do. I've thought about doing this myself, but, uh, yea, lot of time.
RE team does not give approval to publish ships or other assets extracted from our mods.
In fact - the similar applies to RoR, which you also already published assets from - unless you have Sco's approval.
Assets are just that - assets, even if they are "result of many months of hard collaborative work of a number of modders".
Publishing some of them as standalone mods should not be prohibited, especially if they are for the same game and made with vanilla assets themselves ( which is hypocritical if you ask me ).
Of course the credit to original mod author must be provided!
If the reason for refusal is "We don't want to maintain the 100+ mods", then give that job to the modder who published the sub-mod.
With explicit statement: "If it breaks - your problem" and "NO donations using OUR work!".
Siting on the awesome ships like chicken on the eggs and proclaiming "It either our mega-mod or GTFO" is against the spirit of modding.
90% of users play vanilla, and just want to modify SOME parts of the game, without totally changing the experience.