Submission Guidelines [Updated: 8/1/2012]

[Shadowth117]

Well you're certainly one of the most formal people to want to submit here so I'll try and answer your questions as best I can.

1. We actually see this issue a lot especially with older games. Usually we shrink the UV's and then either set the texture to flip appropriately or in certain cases if it can't be avoided edit the texture (while keeping a copy of the original texture) and make sure that it looks as close as possible to how the model appeared ingame.

If you decide to just mirror it in the material settings than it is probably best if you leave a note in your readme or something describing what you did since most formats don't completely record those settings.

2. I wouldn't worry about this. After exporting a model, the bones change in appearance a lot of the time anyway so this isn't a big issue.

3. Bones can almost always be removed safely, but unless you're sure they do absolulutely nothing and you can be sure they aren't markers or something than I wouldn't remove them.

4. That's generally not something we fix since it requires you to modify the model generally, but you can if you'd like. If its a heavy modification such as combining objects or something I'd ask that you leave a copy of the original model as well.

An exception would be vertex welding rips from Print Screen Style rippers like 3D Ripper Dx or Nemu64's plugin. Since the extra vertexes causing the lack of a smooth aren't meant to be there anyway, fixing them isn't an issue.

5. Your choice really. That's really one of those times when you get a little bit of freedom with it. If you can't choose either way, then you can just provide both versions of the model.

Honestly I highly doubt I'd reject one of your submissions since you've obviously put a lot of thought into them.