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Using skin of other driver? - Alessandro Andreis - 06-03-2018

I do not know if it is allowed, but I guess it is not?
This evening in DTM champ on Brand's Hatch at 20:00, Jorge Fernandez Cirilo was using my squadmate's skin (which I made).
It was not fun!


RE: Using skin of other driver? - Will Dawson - 06-03-2018

It is allowed but is generally frowned upon. If I catch someone using my personal skin then I'll send them a polite PM asking them not to use it in future. Most of the people on SRS are respectful enough that they won't do it again (Sometimes they're rather new and didn't realise it was a custom skin)

If it is someone who races in a series with me regularly and I have spare time I will even offer to make them one of their own (Taking a page from Russell Sobie's book Smile)


RE: Using skin of other driver? - Neil de Guzman - 06-04-2018

Yes sure it is frowned upon not most, but all of the times. I don't use custom paints in AC... I used to in iRacing. Anyways, the downloading app for custom paints is so different than trading paints. I now have dozens of paints saved in my PC that I don't want to see or use. Although some of them are so well made that you cant say if it's a custom paint or not. Saying that, maybe they just thought the paint they are using are official content and not a custom paint by someone. I admit, I was fooled the first time I saw them paints... But I saw names and then just stayed away from them. Forgive them noobs I say... Cheers!


RE: Using skin of other driver? - Alessandro Andreis - 06-04-2018

Okedokey, I forgive them... But I suppose you should change the name of the directory to match your name_surname. So it is not so easy to misunderstand Smile


RE: Using skin of other driver? - Will Dawson - 06-04-2018

A few people (myself included) now make the preview.jpg not show the car but instead show a message that says "Personal skin for Will Dawson" for example. The idea being that if they can't see what the car looks like then they won't pick it.


RE: Using skin of other driver? - Michal Janak - 06-04-2018

it happened to me too at Alfa GTA on which is my name on car and on preview is DONT USE, personal skin, the guy didn appology or write any other word


RE: Using skin of other driver? - Will Dawson - 06-04-2018

Of course there will be occasional cases of people who choose someone elses' personal skin and just don't care but that is the minority of the playerbase... Of course it would happen to you though Michal, you are the unluckiest SRS member I know Big Grin


RE: Using skin of other driver? - Malik Martin - 09-22-2018

I've modified someone's skin before and used it as my own. I hope that's not a big deal...


RE: Using skin of other driver? - Russell Sobie - 09-22-2018

That's pretty much copyright infringement, if the skin was completely original work from the original author. For the most part, liveries on pretend race cars are typically full of BS like company logos and clipart gathered from google image search, so you'd likely have a hard time raising any sort of legal action or anything super serious like that.

Basically I'd just say that's "bad form" and would discourage the practice. At least without the original creator's permission.

When I was making skins for others just about every week I would tell them they could do whatever they wanted with it after I gave it to them. But I'd be pretty miffed if someone ganked one of my designs and made it look bad (i.e. different in any way than my original creation). Wink


RE: Using skin of other driver? - Jay Gabriel - 09-22-2018

As a reply to what Alessandro Andreis said ' But I suppose you should change the name of the directory to match your name_surname. '
I think that is worse than just using someone else's skin, that is outright stealing it.....imo