Asset packs / new core assets
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2018 8:40 am
Breaking this out from Mindfront's thread.
There are many very useful assets in the repo now. Many of these could be made more available by either a) including them in the core distribution or b) offer them as some kind of bundle. In the latter case, there should be some sort of functionality for easily installing that bundle.
Assets included in core
I have already started to toy with the idea of including a larger set of assets in the core distro, with the following limitations:
Within these limitations, I have (when I was at it a while ago) started to consider the following for inclusion in the core distribution:
That was as far as I got. If you happen to have a list of assets you think should be included, please add the asset names here. It would be helpful to also get the links to the asset nodes in the repo.
Asset packs
I agree that this would be very welcome and make contributed asset a lot more accessible. We'd just have to figure out a good structure/procedure for how to offer them. It would probably be cumbersome and error-prone to offer them as zips and expect the user to extract them in the right place.
Also, in order for the packs to be accessible, there should probably be some kind of meta-data available for them, along with renders etc.
My immediate thought would be to have a separate tab in the asset downloader plugin, where one can get a list of asset packs together with a render. But I'm open for suggestions.
There are many very useful assets in the repo now. Many of these could be made more available by either a) including them in the core distribution or b) offer them as some kind of bundle. In the latter case, there should be some sort of functionality for easily installing that bundle.
Assets included in core
I have already started to toy with the idea of including a larger set of assets in the core distro, with the following limitations:
- Only assets licensed CC0 can be included, as we promise users that all output from MH is CC0 (and don't want to change that promise)
- The distribution cannot grow too large. Thus while high-resolution textures/maps might look beautiful, they would make the core distro grow too much.
Within these limitations, I have (when I was at it a while ago) started to consider the following for inclusion in the core distribution:
- Extra materials for the already existing core assets, for example MargaretToigo's large set of suit materials, and hair materials
- A large set of poses. These are very small, so has no considerable cost in including.
- A large set of expressions, same as poses.
That was as far as I got. If you happen to have a list of assets you think should be included, please add the asset names here. It would be helpful to also get the links to the asset nodes in the repo.
Asset packs
I agree that this would be very welcome and make contributed asset a lot more accessible. We'd just have to figure out a good structure/procedure for how to offer them. It would probably be cumbersome and error-prone to offer them as zips and expect the user to extract them in the right place.
Also, in order for the packs to be accessible, there should probably be some kind of meta-data available for them, along with renders etc.
My immediate thought would be to have a separate tab in the asset downloader plugin, where one can get a list of asset packs together with a render. But I'm open for suggestions.