Recolors allowed?

[Tiki]

Weve had alot of these, should they be allowed or no.

Ok should basic recolors be accepted? Just changed maybe from blue to red? They to lazy not to recolor the border as well.

 

[tonic]

Depends to what depth they're been coloured, and how it overall looks. It's more situational really. You can't say "no recolours allowed!" but you also can't allow every single one.

http://www.wc3sear.ch/?p=Icons&ID=4698

Overall it is just a simple job (recolour, smudge edges, change saturation), but it looks effective and people have been using it.

 

[Tiki]

ok i rephrased it.

 

[Sopho]

I think yes, some recolours could look interesting or attracting to players and could be necessary for the unit icon/ability icon...

 

[VGsatomi]

I think they should be allowed if they are an assigned icon for a specific model, because there is still no way to put icons in the model's zip file instead.
-VGsatomi

 

[acolyteofdoom]

If the border isnt changed color... and its neat then I think they should be allowed. But those ones that are like... all... colored borders should be deleted.

 

[Wormskull]

no way, unless the icon had a recolor in a good environnement. iconning is serious business, most of the times, it shouldnt be allowed cnping or recoloring an icon, that's barely editing it..

it's a fundamental question here, maybe there could be a section for barely edited icons!

 

[Afronight_76]

if you dont like them then dont dl them its as simple as that. just because its not good doenst mean that you should persecute those with lesser artistic talent. everone should have a right to post any type of skin they want(except those unacceptable for certain reasons).

 

[tonic]

if you dont like them then dont dl them its as simple as that. just because its not good doenst mean that you should persecute those with lesser artistic talent. everone should have a right to post any type of skin they want(except those unacceptable for certain reasons).

True, but there are things you have to keep in mind:
1) This isn't your site. This is Darky's site. If he doesn't want a crappy icon on it, it can be deleted. His laws extend to the moderators he picked himself. This isn't a democracy, it's a dictatorship.
2) Uploading icons that have obviously no work, and nobody is downloading them is a waste of space on the site.
3) Artistic talent does not involve changing red to blue using a digital imaging program. My 9 year old sister can do that.

 

[Wormskull]

the only reason recolors looks good is that blizzard employees made the icon with love, devotion, and hard work, that's why the default icon rocks so much. basicly when you recolor it, it's still the default icon, with same shading, but not same colors, but its completly still the default icon. if you had to do icons from scratch, you would look smart don't you recolorers?

recoloring takes nothing more than a command, that does it all for you. artists in older times did not had this, and that's how you learn, by doing it yourself, not with a machine. You learn absolutly nothing by recoloring.

Ignore the poll results, these peoples will be better without recolorings, where recoloring be restricted, it's better for their learnings and developement.

Please, restrict recolors, on my daily commenting, it's a hell to comment recolors, some people might know what i'm talking about.

 

[Afronight_76]

well if darky were as enthusiastic as you are about the hard work and determination that ppl should have when making a skin, then i guess he would have already banned recolors.

 

[Dread The Undead]

I think it should be allowed, after all its still icons

 

[tonic]

I can honestly say this is a perfect example of why recolours should not be allowed:
http://www.wc3sear.ch/?p=Icons&ID=5919

How long did it take? About a minute.
Extract, convert to tga, recolour, convert back to blp.
This takes no skill, has no artistic talent, and is generally a waste of space on this site. Poor quality, low effort recolours should not be permitted.

 

[TimeMachine]

I think some recolor icons may be very good!
I think yes, but no if theres some really bad recolors.
But though, i think except the most horrible icon, all icon should be accepted...

 

[Wormskull]

I think some recolor icons may be very good!
I think yes, but no if theres some really bad recolors.
But though, i think except the most horrible icon, all icon should be accepted...

very good? the icons have been made by blizzard one or two years ago, just recoloring them in another color is easy as hell! this isn't a kindergarden or anything, even i could intentionally take an icon, recolor it purple, convert it to .blp and submit it here under 2 minutes, instead of wasting 1-2 hours on a freehand icon.

seriously i doubt anyone likes to see recolors, it's more pleasant to the eye to see DIFFERENT icons, and not a clone of an icon