![]() ![]() #1 Your name, and a valid contact address (E-Mail, a website or a Forum) Relating to the part created by you, it is of interest for everyone that you include what follows: #3 Include in the documentation provided with your mod the original readme of the third party mod/s you are using. If your mod was based upon data or ideas suggested by others, crediting them is always good. #2 It is nice to credit also people who post giving information and ideas in the forums but who later do not create mods from it. #1 Always give credit to any third party mod you legitimately included or reworked in your own one. Once permission is received according to the above guidelines, give proper credit as follows: Sometimes a modder gives permission to use his work in a specific pack, but will not allow it for others. #7 If you receive permission from the author of a mod that also includes other third party mods, you must contact the authors of ALL of them, as per the above #1-4. you change only the crosshair of the periscope but keep the original artwork of the rest of the screen, created by someone else), orī) You are including also the whole base-mod in yours. #6 Overlays or tweek packs for existing mods or supermods do not require previous permission unless:Ī) You are not just including stuff created entirely by you, but also using parts of the original one (E.g. #5 If you are contacted by the original author to correct the credits, that is no offence. Your only alternative is to contact the author and convince him to allow you modifying it. #4 If the mod's readme indicates that further use or rework of it is not allowed, accept it. Keeping a screen capture of that could be worth in case of doubts. #3 If the author of an old mod has dissapeared and the above methods of contacting him were unsuccesful, you can use his mod provided:Ī) The readme of it did not explicitely forbid any further use,ī) You give proper credit to the original work and specify clearlyī2) Which means you used to try to contact the author, and when/where did you post or mail him,Ĭ) The original author has been away from subsim's forums more than 6 months, which you can check in his public profile. #2 Asking for permission means using all reasonable methods of locating the author, and at least includes:Ī) E-mail to the address stated in the mod readme, if anyī) Private Messaging in the forums frequented by that modder,Ĭ) Public post calling the guy in the forums, if all else fails. #1 If you are going to make a mod based on the work created by another guy, ask permission first unless the readme of the original mod stated already that it could be freely reworked and modified. Yet, considering the major benefits for everyone that following them will bring, we strongly encourage to respect them. They are not a legal system, nor is a court to enforce them. After careful examination, recommends these guidelines as standard practice for everyone involved in its forums. We have collected all of them and made a sum-up of all those who were accepted explicitely by EVERYONE who posted, and implicitely by all users who silently witnessed and did not disagree. The following guidelines are the result of a thread opened publically to receive feedback and suggestions about what kind of behaviours and practices are unanimously approved and wished by people involved in modding games. SUBSIM'S RECOMMENDED MODDING ETIQUETTE GUIDELINES. Subsim's recommended modding etiquette (please read these guidelines) Note - Go straight to post #2 for the mods list - Here The Complete Idiots Guide to Goblin Editor(large image warning) Please use the correct location for Readme files I will try to edit and adapt them as i can so it avoids confusion as much as possible. Much of this thread is from sh4 and some from sh3 so you may see tips or guides not designed for sh5 that still work or are close enough to help you solve your sh5 problems using methods from the other games. ![]() These are very popular threads, so they will probably stay on the front page, but if you cannot find it easily, you can find it here. To cut back on some of the sticky congestion, this thread will have links to the popular SH4 mods that were stickied before.
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