New to Modding, what is allowed?
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 10:43 pm
Hello,
I've just started to look at just making some small changes in other peoples mods, going into their .lua scripts and changing the colors, recipe resources, etc.
As I was doing it, I started to look into more complex mods that I've enjoyed and wanted to see "how-it-works", while doing so I realized that I had copied parts of
one mods code and put it into another one, as well writing my very own code to it to make some more alterations.
Having no background in computer science, coding and modding I have very little knowledge regarding the ethics of what I have done, seeing as I have no intentions of posting it up on the mod portal for other people to use, is this something that people generally dislike, welcome, stay neutral to the topic of changing someone else's mods?
From my own point of view, as long I don't distribute it as my own, and give credit to the original authors of the mods, I don't see anything wrong with what I did. Although as I said previously that I am new to this scene, I have very limited knowledge to the general culture of modding.
I was also wondering, is it ok to contact the creators of the mods and ask them if they want to look at the changes, and maybe implement it to the code if they consider it good enough?
Cheers
I've just started to look at just making some small changes in other peoples mods, going into their .lua scripts and changing the colors, recipe resources, etc.
As I was doing it, I started to look into more complex mods that I've enjoyed and wanted to see "how-it-works", while doing so I realized that I had copied parts of
one mods code and put it into another one, as well writing my very own code to it to make some more alterations.
Having no background in computer science, coding and modding I have very little knowledge regarding the ethics of what I have done, seeing as I have no intentions of posting it up on the mod portal for other people to use, is this something that people generally dislike, welcome, stay neutral to the topic of changing someone else's mods?
From my own point of view, as long I don't distribute it as my own, and give credit to the original authors of the mods, I don't see anything wrong with what I did. Although as I said previously that I am new to this scene, I have very limited knowledge to the general culture of modding.
I was also wondering, is it ok to contact the creators of the mods and ask them if they want to look at the changes, and maybe implement it to the code if they consider it good enough?
Cheers