I'm sure I'm probably not alone in this, when making skins for vehicles you end up at some point with a vehicle(s) that the uploader did not include the template for said vehicle(s) and unless you happen to have that template saved already somewhere else you have to go searching and downloading other similar packs hoping someone else included it.

 

It would be great if we could have a section specifically for templates. This will help the community not only find and release templates better, but will also save bandwidth overall removing the need to add templates to packs and limiting the need to download multiple vehicles just to find a template.

8 hours ago, Vampyre said:

I'm sure I'm probably not alone in this, when making skins for vehicles you end up at some point with a vehicle(s) that the uploader did not include the template for said vehicle(s) and unless you happen to have that template saved already somewhere else you have to go searching and downloading other similar packs hoping someone else included it.

 

It would be great if we could have a section specifically for templates. This will help the community not only find and release templates better, but will also save bandwidth overall removing the need to add templates to packs and limiting the need to download multiple vehicles just to find a template.

 

I really like this idea.  It could either be a new category under "resource & assets", or we can integrate it with with "tools".

I like the idea, but I don't see it being used very often. The template would have to be uploaded by the original author of the model itself, and most of the time that person is not very keen on sharing their stuff with everyone, sometimes they aren't even active in the community and stick with their tight-knit group of friends. Essentially, you'd only have templates for the unlocked dev models posted on the site, and I don't think there are very many of them. Plus, you most likely can just get the templates from those dev models.

5 hours ago, willpv23 said:

I like the idea, but I don't see it being used very often. The template would have to be uploaded by the original author of the model itself, and most of the time that person is not very keen on sharing their stuff with everyone, sometimes they aren't even active in the community and stick with their tight-knit group of friends. Essentially, you'd only have templates for the unlocked dev models posted on the site, and I don't think there are very many of them. Plus, you most likely can just get the templates from those dev models.

99.9% of the time the original release of models does actually include the template for the vehicle in their download when there actually is a livery on the vehicle.

 

The issue with templates not being included happens after the initial release when other people start releasing other versions of the vehicle without the original template in the download and either the template is the same or over time someone decides to modify it (several of the dev vehicles that are out now are being released in models with modified templates).

 

It's an idea in any case to try and help the community, if some authors want to oppose it and hold things back I guess we can't do it.