What's the word on this? Staff/ gen pop here want it done; if yes, which design/ what information/ any specifics?
As I'm getting more involved around here I'm realizing just how ridiculously much time is spent making files available to people... regardless of their source, whether it is ripped from the game or scratchbuilt, it all still takes a sizable chunk of time to split up a model, optimize for pep (if this step is even done...), unfold and lay out. And then there is the work vrogy does with the wiki index, which takes more time on top of that.
Credits to individual people could get tricky though, almost to the point it would be unneccessary. Would we credit the model-maker and the unfolder? Or just one or the other? I chopped and unfolded the entire Halo 2 ODST for pep, but I used a model I downloaded forever ago and forgot where it even came from. I'm fairly certain it's a ripped in-game model, and I may know the original person who ripped it... would we credit the ripper, assuming the files we have floating around here could even be tracked back to an individual?
My point being, the pep work may be done by individual people, but we all have the 405th community in mind. The work we put into it is (or should be) less for our own personal interests and more for the gain of the group.
Tracking down and verifying every potentially unknown modelmaker/ ripper would be a whole lot of work, I propose that a simple 405th logo and 405th.com graphic would suffice. Ensuring that people find their way back to this site, to help us expand, should be credit enough to the pep files' creators. If people were further curious about the file they used, it would be simple enough for them to find once here.
If I could get these questions answered by staff or knowledgable individuals I'll gladly contact vrogy about getting all the files and put the time - as I get it - into updating the pep index with the 405th's information.
--Ruze
