Hacking Quality is down! News at 10!

[Velen]

There has always been crud on the Vault. Always has been, always will be, but quite frankly, the influx of such bad hacks is so frequent that [censored]NoBrawlVault could end up making daily posts for years, five times a day. What am I implying? I am imply there is a dreadful lack of quality in the Vault these days.

Lemme show you two texture hacks.

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Which is the quality hack? If you guessed the one on the left, then you know what some of us hope to expect.

Next we move onto Model Imports.

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Which is the quality hack? If you guessed on the on the right. Then you should know better than doing what the

It is a completely half-assed rig. That is all there is to it., and the lack of block colors shows the person has some texturing potential on that Lucario texture, at the least.

There are noobs flooding the vault with pointless, unambitious, and overall plain bad hacks that set bad examples for the community as a whole.

[SJS]

This is tragically rude.

[Velen]

This is tragically rude.

Sugarcoating is not something I'm good at.

[SJS]

It seems more like "Agree with my quality standards or you are stupid and tragic."

If a hack can successfully convey the ideas and images that it's trying to get people to see, then it's not a completely tragic failure.

[Pik]

Well, he's right to a large degree- Mods are getting uninteresting and kinda petty. Most of them are a "who cares?" thing. Like I've said, there's a significant lack of creativity needed these days.


Also, I thought that Lucario was the Masked Man for a second. Damn, I need to finish him! gettin to my head

[Velen]

It seems more like "Agree with my quality standards or you are stupid and tragic."

If a hack can successfully convey the ideas and images that it's trying to get people to see, then it's not a completely tragic failure.

I call something a completely tragic failure if it's below what I would consider acceptable. The Arceus hack is garishly below what I would consider acceptable. That's just being extremely lazy, and uncaring to boot. It's just fodder for the people who don't know any better. That Arceus doesn't even have any moving limbs. At all. The Giratina hack made by the same guy is just as bad, if not worse. That model wasn't even smoothed.

 It's like the importer didn't give a [censored] at all about what he was doing. If the models at least had some semblance of moving limbs in either of them, I would be more forgiving with my words.

-but those two hacks in particular are just the butt-ass fugly low of hack quality, the Giratina one in particular. The Lucario Photo Negative texture I showed I am more forgiving about only because my main field of hacking is texturing, and I myself have made simple recolors before, but the Aura Glow (I think it's name is) is a higher quality hack that shows creative thinking. For me, when it comes to textures. Anything that is a mere block color is unacceptable, with some special exceptions under certain conditions.

[ShadowSnake]

I agree with you Vel, i cant stand how there are only a few good mods out these days. Its like i have to import everthing i want in brawl because someone has done the stuff on my to do list but its an awful import and i cant live with a bad import. Thats why i have 150 imports on my to-do-list. Because people cant get it right! >=(

This is exactly why i want to make a model rigging tutorial, so there wont be anymore half-assed imports.

I am at the point where i only download imports from people i know who do a good job, like nanobuds, starwaffle, etc.

uninteresting = one bone import without metal, fs eyes, expressions, unsmoothed
interesting = full rig with fingers rigged, expressions, moving eyes, new texture, etc.

[Segtendo]

Yea. I have noticed a decline in quality hacks lately. I, honestly, think that that LST and IST have the best hacks right now, seeing as how they actually care for their hacks.

interesting = full rig with fingers rigged, expressions, moving eyes, new texture, etc.

Don't forget, if needed, a sexy shine.

[Velen]

Yea. I have noticed a decline in quality hacks lately. I, honestly, think that that LST and IST have the best hacks right now, seeing as how they actually care for their hacks.Don't forget, if needed, a sexy shine.

About the shines. I think people should try making their own shine textures.

[Albafika]

I only DL stuff from some of the members of LST. It's been a long time since I've had any interest in lurking the Vault for new hacks. Most are [censored]ty imports, really [censored]ty imports. So I stick to old Vertexes / New imports from some of LST, and seldom ones from other hackers.

[BlackJax96]

I only DL stuff from some of the members of LST. It's been a long time since I've had any interest in lurking the Vault for new hacks. Most are [censored]ty imports, really [censored]ty imports. So I stick to old Vertexes / New imports from some of LST, and seldom ones from other hackers.

I agree... I'm really picky about hacks I download.
I'll only use my own mods and download from consistently good modders, really.

I agree with you Vel, i cant stand how there are only a few good mods out these days. Its like i have to import everthing i want in brawl because someone has done the stuff on my to do list but its an awful import and i cant live with a bad import. Thats why i have 150 imports on my to-do-list. Because people cant get it right! >=(

This is exactly why i want to make a model rigging tutorial, so there wont be anymore half-assed imports.

I am at the point where i only download imports from people i know who do a good job, like nanobuds, starwaffle, etc.

uninteresting = one bone import without metal, fs eyes, expressions, unsmoothed
interesting = full rig with fingers rigged, expressions, moving eyes, new texture, etc.

Fully agree with everything you just said.

Some things are easy to do and/or are just things that should always be done (like smoothing the model) and yet they aren't done and are still uploaded to the vault.

And it also seems like people literally just get models and throw them in the game and say the character has been imported.
And yet the import looks completely lifeless.

I like to use imports that look like they're alive and actually fighting for a cause. :O

About the shines. I think people should try making their own shine textures.

I have

[ShadowSnake]

I agree... I'm really picky about hacks I download.
I'll only use my own mods and download from consistently good modders, really.

Fully agree with everything you just said.

Some things are easy to do and/or are just things that should always be done (like smoothing the model) and yet they aren't done and are still uploaded to the vault.

And it also seems like people literally just get models and throw them in the game and say the character has been imported.
And yet the import looks completely lifeless.

I like to use imports that look like they're alive and actually fighting for a cause. :O

I have

It especially should disappoint you, after all that work on the new brawlbox only a handful of modders use it to its good full potential. People dont even appreciate all the work that was put into it.

Adding stuff like moving eyes and shine isnt even hard and it makes the character come to life, the sickest rigs are the one bone ones or the ones with bad bone alignment and no use of the magic blend tool.

I only DL stuff from some of the members of LST. It's been a long time since I've had any interest in lurking the Vault for new hacks. Most are [censored]ty imports, really [censored]ty imports. So I stick to old Vertexes / New imports from some of LST, and seldom ones from other hackers.

Only LST? you obviously have never tried one of Nanobud's imports.

About the shines. I think people should try making their own shine textures.

exactly why i used your/nano's metal sonic shine texture on one of my recent mods. That brawl one is pretty bad.

Don't forget, if needed, a sexy shine.

yes, forgot about that. Shine textures make a nice difference, imagine Metal Sonic, Arbiter or Iron Man without it.

[nernerman]

Seeing this almost makes me afraid to upload anymore hacks to be honest.

[Velen]

Seeing this almost makes me afraid to upload anymore hacks to be honest.

Your colors are pretty good for being color blind. The main thing about them is the color changes are mostly block colors. You could fix that very simply if you use a program with layers like Photoshop or Paint.NET, or GIMP.

[nernerman]

Ok. Thank you. I'm glad that you gave me some positive feed back. And I will do what I can to make my stuff look better.