Proposal for a Central Website to Host Re-Texturing Projects

[charlie_123456]

I'm new to this scene and forum, but have been interested in this for years. Specifically, I've been wanting to re-texture Mariokart 64, but I see that there are many many other re-texturing projects as well. It appears that many of you talked about this forum being "dead" aside from this HRTP pages. Doing a google search of "n64 retexture project" takes you to many forum posts, but no central location. I'd like to propose setting up a site that will handle everything necessary to accommodate a collaborative, sectional, project based retexturing system.



I've discussed this briefly with Gecko Lee. His ideas for requirements of a central location are:
- member pages (picture, nickname, age and other optional details, trackback (commented on, created bla), own texture hacks, rating)
- texture hack page (screenshots, downloads, details, counters (downloads, visits...), created by, comments, at least a 50mb upload feature, per cent counter on how complete a texture pack is...

I think this is basic stuff that is absolutely needed. I propose setting up this ideology on a central server. I would recommend using Drupal with modules such as forum, uploading, user profiles, etc. Drupal is a multi-user contribution platform, open source and written in PHP (for those of you who are unfamilliar with it).

I would be more than happy to be the one to setup this central page, but please -- are there any legal ramifications that you all can think of? Perhaps things anyone has run into over the course of doing this sort of thing? We won't be hosting any emulators or roms, we'd simply be hosting texture packs, possibly configured plugins, etc. Please send any info or requests for what YOU would like to see on such a page. Believe me, it's all possible with moderate work. I am a web developer fluent in PHP, MySQL, XHTML, etc., and have the drive to get something like this up and running. Let me know all of your thoughts!

Thanks,

Charlie

[Terranigma]

Someone once mentioned doing a site like that, but I don't know what happened to it.

[charlie_123456]

Well let's keep pushing it forward this time

What would you like to see at such a site? I can get the ball rolling if it appears that there are people willing to sign up for accounts there / post info / etc... I certainly don't want to invest time and energy into a site that would have zero user activity

[mode7]

Generally a good idea, thats what I tried to do with the wiki.
I would really aprechiate such a site with a good CMS and a nice design.
As others pointed out, such a site only works if there is an active community. To create an active community, the site will need content:
Good tutorials how it works and downloads for emulators, plugins and tools.
Information about ALL texture packs (also the ones that are no longer supported by their creators) information about them, screens and downloads.

This is going to be ALOT of work. I would be willing to help, though I'm not sure if this will work out..

[Stoobs]

Hey, I've been lurking this site for a few days now. I just finished playing through OoT with the 'cel-shade' texture mod, and I am thoroughly impressed.

In another life, I used do texture mods for Halo PC. You might have heard of Xavier's Mod, the 'cel-shade' retexture job for Halo. I helped with a few textures on that, but mainly modified them for my own enjoyment.
I made a video to showcase the Halo mod:

I'm very interested in getting into texture mods for N64 games, and I would sign-up for this proposed website in an instant.

[gitech]

Great idea! If all those features can be implemented...etc... (sorry, I don't know much about that side of things...)

I would help also by porting all of my work including all the packs, images and tutorials I have done.

...If it is nice and you know of a way to promote it and get it to show up at the top of search engine results such as google.

Also, maybe we should discuss the details here about what should and could be done with a custom site like this.

Activity here has certainly diminished!!!!!!!!!!! Posts are .... rare!!!

Let me know,
Jay

[charlie_123456]

Jay -- you'll be a great help, we'll need to have as much good content on startup as we can. That means existing texture packs and tutorials.

I've been working with a couple of individuals so far in creating lists of what we'll need, modules for Drupal to get this up and going asap with modifications to come in down the line.

As soon as I have the server up I'll send a note to everyone on here. We can continue this conversation over there. I'm so glad that we have as much interest as we do!

Charlie

[gitech]

Cool!

Let me know,
Jay

[charlie_123456]

Everyone interested --- head over to www.n64redux.com, it should be up within the next 24 hours.

I'll get the basic core online so that people can register for accounts and strike up conversation asap

[Keits]

Bookmarked it, thanks Charlie!