Postby Franch88 » Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:46 am
For me, the best quality of an MM2 car are: have a good looking model, doesn't matter if it's low or high with the polygons, the important is that it has an overall nice look, and in the case of real existing cars, a credible similarity to it; have a good porting done work and optimizes with the mesh and textures; have at least appropriate sounds and tuning, but that needs to be better made for certain king of cars; finally have a decent packing with a Readme file and vehicle showcase screens. The dashboard is kinda an optional, it's not always required, but it's always an added value.
The locking issue is a free decision of who releases a file, means that he wants to have the file only in the way as released and is part of the packing features. Since there's this possibility is good that the releaser considers use it.
Without the locking, in the case of an interesting scratch made car model, is possible that it got used without the original author knowing converted for another game, and this, is valid for any release made for any game. I've seen some kind of proofs of this right in the case of MM2 releases, so there's "someone", not really "nobody". Stealing is more possible, but indeed the claiming as own work not, at least there's no crediting done at all.
PS: the topic discussion is good to say the own reply to the topic subject, so possibly let's avoid discussions and questions that go more off-topic.