Warcraft III resources & community, 2003–2006 · archived
Reviving. Can it even be possible?
86 posts
Kimbo
#61
yay. i changed my mind..
I'll be willing to test some or a catergory of models for transfer to the hive. 1. I will test each model ingame.
2. If its a good quality model like jigreals stuff and it contains an error, bug causing it not to show properly ingame then i may edit it.
3. I will firstly judge through screenshot though, if its just a footman with no head, then its obviously junk.
4. I'll dl all the models(in a catergory not all obviously ) and have them sorted like this:
(But mind you,im still not sure if the hive will support unit catergories rather than unit as a catergory.) wc3models>Undead>Ghoulbarager>ghoulbarger.mdx
But i seriously think you need a person for each category in the model section since its not easy work..
ill also be willing to go through the artwork with you and dl and save them into one big folder(or zip) for the hive for transfer(ill keep author names on the image name). The artwork can be quickly sorted since most of the artwork can be judged via the preview image.
Im not saying im the best person for this job... but im willing to help cuase i have nothing else do in my life.
EDIT: okay... well i reread it and hopefully what i said makes sense... :S
Fulla, opinion on spells are diverse among people? What about for example icon recolours or WoW models? You can find alot of people who will pray to these arts, but alot of them will just burn it as satan-spawn.
Also you may think that spell made in Object Editor only, without triggers, is a mistake and should be obliterated... what about this spell? http://www.wc3sear.ch/index.php?p=Spells&ID=366&sid=1bacd21c311c1f57e28a1fabba118270 I think it's extreme good example of non-triggered spells, which is higher quality than many "LOOK I LEARNT TRIGZERS I MAKE SPELLS". Also you can delete spells based on their leaking... I know few spells that choke my computer after third cast or sth.
/psst I can purge spells ;p/
Kimbo
#63
i say we make Hive an anti-crap hole, i still want it to be like wc3sear, but the GOOD side of wc3sear not the lazy, thieved crap.
originality, creativity, effort and skill are the key factors i think, not ripping models like BFME or WoW( and i don't care if it takes you 1-3hrs to rip a model) or simple recolour edits pretty much anyone can do, if
people want recolours or rips then they should make it themself and keep it to themselves.
I'd say keep all, no one wants this great and huge resource to disappear, and if you don't like something, don't download it. Just search for what you need, it's just like the world wide market, there are all kinds of things you don't like and you just ignore them and find what you're looking for and if you don't find it, you try going somewhere else.
I agree with those who say skins, models, icons and spells should stay! Though the 1.5mb+ and low quality models should be deleted, the crappy and low quality spells should also be deleted. The skins ans icons are pretty much all good and don't require that much space anyways!
As for maps i think that all the maps should be left, i mean yeah many are right when they say maps can be re-submited by users and BTW there are enough WC3 maps websites!
Kimbo
#67
VexorianAnd if you choose to use people to clean the sections wulf and Jacek should be your last choice since they are hardly dependable.
VexorianAnyways Ralle my point is: either keep all or remove all. Seriously.
I disagree. This is so binar logic. There is lot of stuff that can be sacrificed, but not all and it is nonsense to keep it all. I think cleaning is "less evil" than eliminate all.
Werewulforiginality, creativity, effort and skill are the key factors i think, not ripping models like BFME or WoW( and i don't care if it takes you 1-3hrs to rip a model)
even if recolored icons are best at all, I cant say same to models/skins. Overally, it sounds like good way.
ArkidasI'd say keep all, no one wants this great and huge resource to disappear, and if you don't like something, don't download it. Just search for what you need, it's just like the world wide market, there are all kinds of things you don't like and you just ignore them and find what you're looking for and if you don't find it, you try going somewhere else.
The problem is enormous space consumed, so something simply must be deleted (I vote for maps)
Kimbo
#69
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Werewulforiginality, creativity, effort and skill are the key factors i think, not ripping models like BFME or WoW( and i don't care if it takes you 1-3hrs to rip a model)
even if recolored icons are best at all, I cant say same to models/skins. Overally, it sounds like good way.
im saying recolours go for all icon,skins etc, even artwork, and i hate trace works or crap recolours of samwises work that are in the art database.
EDIT: screw it, ill just go through the art gallery NOW, im frickin bored..
Maybe, but if you need for example yellow potion, it looks much better when it is recolored potion of healing (or another one) than it is in another bottle.
nah, this is pointless, recolored icons are not main problem now
Hemlock
#71
I would go with vexorians oppinion, just removing everything or keep everything, if you remove everything just redirect the wc3sear.ch link to your site ralle.
dependable trackable... I have alot of time (around 5 hours per day) and I spend that mostly to mass DotAs and WoW, so I could do something for community. Vex, maybe you'll do the purge, eh?
Wc3sear was easily the biggest database of warcraft III resources. I have used and relied on this site for everything over the years. Help with map making, models, everything. There is no way we can let all the hard work that went into this site and all its art be thrown out the window. So yeah my rant is over, Im willing to help with whatever I can to save the resources..
) and have them sorted like this:
