Custom Livery

[Connor]

And just to add onto the like Mika added above, here’s a quote from IceBlue

@IceBlue

Here are the problems:

DasMarc:

FDS will control and test the livery before adding it to the game if it fulfills all the standards.

This will take much more time than the amount they spend currently doing it, negating any benefit from

DasMarc:

This idea would allow FDS to focus on more important stuff

Also remember it’s the texture artists/modelers that work on new liveries, not FDS themselves.

DasMarc:

I am 100% sure, that there are a lot of very talented designers in this community.

Talented designers != skills suitable for texturing. Photoshopping a 3D template is much simpler than actual textures, were parts are split all over the place, quality has to be managed for performance, projection has to be thought about, and you need really strong skills. What I’m trying to say is that it’s much more complicated than pasting a logo in photoshop.

The possibility for loads of low quality submissions (remember, FDS has high quality standards, especially for liveries) outweighs the likely small amount of suitable quality submissions. Professional 3D modelers to the standard FDS have don’t work for free, and the chances of someone with that skill set wanting to spend enough time getting a really good texture together unpaid? It dosen’t seem likely to me.