Re-Skinning

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Re-Skinning

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Hi guys,
I have been skinning locos now for a few weeks and I am getting to grips with it it pretty fast. I have only one question. Am I allowed to re-skin assets that I didn't make? For example I have skinned DomSartos GM 141 Class loco to a fictional paint job as now seen on the freight 071 Class Loco in Ireland but am I allowed to do that even tho I wont be releasing them as I would not have the permissions, but are we allowed to re-skin for personal use. Sorry if this question has been answered else where, I had a look on forum but could not find anything related.

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Irish Rail Class 141 in freight livery

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BR Class 67 in Enterprise livery waiting to depart Dublin Connely

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BR Class 67 in Northern Ireland Railways livery departing Dublin

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BR Class 67 NIR passing BR Class 222 Irish Rail Intercity.

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Re: Re-Skinning

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I appreciate that you're new to Trainz - but with no disrespect, saying you've re-skinned something - but then asking whether you're allowed to is a bit like stealing something from a shop and then going back a day later and asking the shop whether you really needed to pay for it. The correct way of doing it is asking BEFORE you re-skin.

However, to answer your question, in each item, you'll find a config file. In the config file, you'll find a tag that lists whether you can re-skin or not. Generally speaking, if there's nothing in the config file stating, then that's considered that no permission is given. If it says you can re-skin - then go for it. Some say you can re-skin as long as its for personal use only. Some say no fictional liveries (to prevent ghastly flourescent pink with green stripes and brown spot liveries - and yes, there are people that do those liveries! lol). The config file is your friend.

If in doubt, make a note of the item's author - and look on here or the Auran forum. Most creators are active on one of those forums - for example, Domsarto posts on here from time to time. Send them a PM - and wait for a reply. Job done.

I find that most of the time, if you show an author some respect by asking first, they usually agree to it. If you annoy them by re-skinning their work without asking, and then asking afterwards, it goes down like a lead balloon (and rightly so).

Basically, be polite and treat authors and their work with respect - and they'll generally be quite helpful back.
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Re: Re-Skinning

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Briggsy wrote:I appreciate that you're new to Trainz - but with no disrespect, saying you've re-skinned something - but then asking whether you're allowed to is a bit like stealing something from a shop and then going back a day later and asking the shop whether you really needed to pay for it. The correct way of doing it is asking BEFORE you re-skin.

However, to answer your question, in each item, you'll find a config file. In the config file, you'll find a tag that lists whether you can re-skin or not. Generally speaking, if there's nothing in the config file stating, then that's considered that no permission is given. If it says you can re-skin - then go for it. Some say you can re-skin as long as its for personal use only. Some say no fictional liveries (to prevent ghastly flourescent pink with green stripes and brown spot liveries - and yes, there are people that do those liveries! lol). The config file is your friend.

If in doubt, make a note of the item's author - and look on here or the Auran forum. Most creators are active on one of those forums - for example, Domsarto posts on here from time to time. Send them a PM - and wait for a reply. Job done.

I find that most of the time, if you show an author some respect by asking first, they usually agree to it. If you annoy them by re-skinning their work without asking, and then asking afterwards, it goes down like a lead balloon (and rightly so).

Basically, be polite and treat authors and their work with respect - and they'll generally be quite helpful back.

Thanks for getting back to me. Yea I kind of thought that last night after I had posted this that maybe I should have approached it a bit different, infact the way you have just mentioned. I'll take the advice on board and ask in future



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Re: Re-Skinning

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Hello everyone, I´m new in this forum and I´ve just seen these irish rekins, can you please send them to mw via email at trenale[at]gmail[dot]com please? I promise it´s only for personal use as I´m big fan of Ianród Éireann and I´d love to have the Class 222 in Intercity livery and Cklass 67 plus some MK2 coaches in Enterprise livery, as well if t is possible for me to get the Class 67 in NIR livery and the Class 141 in Freight livery, thanks very much.

Alex


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Re: Re-Skinning

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If those reskins go against the authors permission to allow reskins then it's bad enough they have been done let alone re-distributing someone elses work without permission.

If the reskins have been allowed by the original author it doesn't necessarily mean they can be distributed as stated above

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MedinaaAlexx wrote:Hello everyone, I´m new in this forum and I´ve just seen these irish rekins, can you please send them to mw via email at trenale[at]gmail[dot]com please? I promise it´s only for personal use as I´m big fan of Ianród Éireann and I´d love to have the Class 222 in Intercity livery and Cklass 67 plus some MK2 coaches in Enterprise livery, as well if t is possible for me to get the Class 67 in NIR livery and the Class 141 in Freight livery, thanks very much.

Alex
For your information have a read of this: http://www.domsarto-tac.com/licence.html
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