Morpheus668
You had asked about other people's experience with fan art and art assets thread, so I went ahead and elaborated my own experiences with fan art and art assets threads in general. I know that I went into more detail than you were looking for, but I figured you might appreciate my perspective on this.
As I said before, one of my biggest peeves is when people start art assets threads, but then the contributors to the thread don't actually share useful info in the thread, even though they do post sample pics. Kind of defeats the purpose of an art asset thread if you aren't going to actually share what you know about the assets involved. A few art asset threads are guilty of this, thankfully Rich's DMD Art Assets thread isn't one of those.
Myself, about the only time I don't end up sharing files or suggested formulas that I've come up with is if I'm not happy with whatever I cooked up. My stab at Olivia from DMD still bothers me. She looks passable at a distance, but I'm embarrassed that I wasn't able to dial her in properly, which is why I haven't shared her... My success rate with dialing in characters decently enough actually floats around 10%, which is why I often end up using other people's versions of characters, wtih minor tweaks, such as F95ZoneUser463's version of 'D' and my somewhat more extensively tweaked version of Melody, based on HentaiSensei777's version of her.
Same with Elena. I think that the last version of Elena that I shared is fairly close, and I did share my 'final result', but she still looks a little off to me. I've learned to just go with it though, and use her 'as is'. She's close enough to be instantly recognizable in most renders anyways... I do like the version of Elena that someone else shared in the DMD Art Assets thread.
I have a special fond-ness for Fuck Team Five though. Dee is the only character in FFF that is based on a character in a game, the other four gals are just various Daz models that I've tweaked and shortened to meet the 'less than 5 foot' requirement, and look suitably hot... the fact that they aren't based on anyone in any games that I know of helps lower my 'stress level' as I don't have to worry about if they look right or not... but I digress.
So I like to to think of a lot of the files/formulas I've shared over the years as starting points for others to evaluate and build upon if they so desire, at least for the ones that aren't tweaked versions of other people's efforts. In any case, I haven't been following the latest Mr. Dots teasers for SL, plus I've been playing around with trying to figure out characters from a couple of other ero games, and also trying to dial in my versions of other characters from other media better as the whim strikes.
Back to your thread though. If you don't want to maintain a list in the OP of the suggested art assets as they come in, something that I saw in the BB Art Assets thread is where the OP linked to another post in said thread where another forum user had accumulated/linked to the suggestions and shares up to that point. So hopefully, if you don't want to do the work yourself, someone else is willing to step up and do that if the interest in doing fan art for that game takes off. It sucks having to sort through multiple pages of posts to try to glean info about assets used and such, so if it's a combined thread, hopefully if the thread takes off, someone will post up a 'master list of assets used' somewhere in the thread.
I spent a lot of time setting up and maintaining the OP in the DoD art assets thread when that thread was just getting started, but the fact that it's organized well enough has kept the 'which asset is being used' questions in that thread to a comfortable level, as the various contributors to that thread did a pretty thorough job working through all that. But since I invested that time at the front end, it's been pretty easy to just do occasional edits since then as needed, since most of the suggestions came in earlier in the thread. So it's pretty easy to just answer people with 'check the Art Assets thread' replies when the questions come up in the DoD Fan Art thread. Similar to how we direct people to Rich's thread from here when people ask here.
Of course, I don't like to take on too much responsibility, which is why you don't see me maintaining lists for other art assets threads, or doing a lot of modding these days...
Hopefully you find my perspective on this useful. Just be clear at the outset whether you will be maintaining any 'asset lists' in the thread you started, so that people are aware. If you don't want to take on that particular responsibility, that's perfectly fine, and I fully understand! And of course remember that, as the OP, you can go back and edit that OP later as needed. I still do occasional edits to the OPs of a couple of my threads, if the OP is meant to be informational and not just a discussion starter.
Oh look, another wall of text. I do that sometimes...
