Re: [Speed-dreams-users] TRB car8 & car6 variants

[Jean-Philippe <jpm...@fr...>]

Hi, W-E-C, and all.

> Looks like i put my foot in ...
> i'm sorry if i stepped on anybodies toes, i certainly didn't
> want to tell you what to replace or not (wherefore i wrote
> variant and not replacement), because i assumed you will
> anyway rename it to fit your project.
> Maybe a rather aggressive wording regarding car8 (vieringe),
> with whose front i was really unhappy, contributed to the
> misunderstanding.

There's really no issue here, you are always welcome for any proposal,
and everyone can express his opinion, provided not too aggressive
(this was not the case here) :-)

>>> I have to say, I made the car6 to not look like a real world car,
>>> because we do not have any license to use real world cars.
>>>
>>> Please keep in mind, it is a risk.
>>
>> I agree, it is not a good idea to change our current cars
>> in order to make them look closer to real ones.
>> Because if we ever have a legal issue with it, this work will have
>> to go to the trash. It would be a pity.
>
> @WD: i was aware that your car (car 6) is designed as a fantasy car,
> and my adapting it to look like another car was NOT meant as a critique
> on it's looks and rather i wanted to make an additional car,
> because imho a broad selection of cars is always good.
> i agree that the silhoutte of car6 is closer to the McLaren MP4 but:
> "its soft lines" + "my (current) modeling skills" = "too much yet for me".
>
> @WD/JP: there are quite some commercial games that also feature cars
> that look rather much like reallife counterparts, despite having
> fantasy names (meaning probably no license), so i don't think they
> would go after a free game.

I agree that the names of the cars are more important
than the car appearance, when talking about legal issues.

This is precisely why we didn't decide in the past
to degrade the appearance of our real-life-like looking cars,
considering the risks were worth taking
(and also because it is a bigger work than changing the names ;-).

> Maybe you could make some sort of "car model submission guidelines",
 > or i need to wait till the SD-forum opens,
 > because then you could pick out yourselves what you need / want.

I agree that there's need for such guidelines, and that SD community
will help a lot on this.

There's already some material in our wiki (see "Artist garage") :
   http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams
but sure we have to enhance this ; some ideas :
* explain our current short/medium term road map about current and future
   car sets (would help contributors to choose which cars to work on),
   - no more work on TRB1,
   - future JGTC/DTM (WIP),
   - call for 3 or 4 more MP1 (F1) cars, in order to have a decent set
     (only 2 for the moment),
   - same for the RS (Rally) cars, and split the set in RS1 / RS2 ones,
   - call for 3 or 4 more LP1 (LMP1) cars, in order to have a decent set
     (only the great Spire for the moment),
   - call for 3 or 4 more Kart cars, in order to have a decent set
     (only 1 or 2 for the moment),
   - ...
* complete the "how to" sections about creating cars,
* ...

Only my 2 pence.

Regards

Jean-Philippe.