@DIIIZZY I couldn't agree more.

Moding is only made possible thanks to fair use, and the fact that content creators can borrow, modify, and distribute assets created by game developers. For a moder to try and curtail other moders from referencing their assets not only hurts the community, but it's a complete contradiction of what moding is all about.

If someone steals a mod, repackages in its entirety, and tries to pass it on as their own, that's absolutely not cool. But that's not what's happening here. I give full credit to the original author, set their mod as a hard requirement, and make transformative changes to some assets which is permissible under fair use.

apparently some people forgot what modding community is about, sharing and caring

Yeah that's weird. Feels like somebody's ego got hurt and now they're making a bigger deal out of the whole thing than necessary. Oh well

@LazerAx9 No communication at all for any of the DMCA strikes. I have permission from Koala for this mod, so I'll find out who reported this and how.

Apparently, ShallowIris has much influence in this fandom.

Don't really see how these mods are any different than the plethora of modded class reworks that other modders put out tbh. Mods that use most/all assets from the original but don't even require the original to be downloaded. Did the creators ask you to take your mods down before the DMCA? Even if you didn't ask permission that feels like a much better first step.

thanks, let's hope.

man sorry to hear about the DMCA. I hope everything works out, your reskins and tweaks are amazing and really enhance the atmosphere

I just made my profile public, other ppl have asked for this.

sorry all this is happening brother. i've seen similar oddly hostile things go on, which is very surprising for a community that seems so passionate about an old game. i'd expect more niceness.
on a side note, could you add your other mods somewhere on this page? since your page is private i cant see em. it would also be cool to see your nexus for skyrim mods.

@maskednightmare I am not sure. I've been playing this game for a few years on and off, but just really started to take the time to make mods.
I was far more active in the Skyrim community and such a thing as doing DMCA is almost unheard off. Mods are generally treated as open source and people make patches freely to make huge mod load orders possible thanks to mod conflicts getting patched.

I also noticed that the DD Discords are very intolerant and quick to ban with little or no notice, which is also very odd to me compared to Skyrim or XCOM 2 modding communities which are very open and laid back.

Loving these redone designs! Noticed that Somber HLM and HBM got taken down recently. Read more into it and saw the abuse of DMCA and that sucks to have that happen. I always observe through the sidelines and never interact with community, but is the DD modding community always like this? Abusing the DMCA process?

Abusing the DMCA process is a very low blow.

Let's take a pause and understand that we take the Intellectual Property of a company and make our fan-made contributions under the protection of fair use. To DMCA a fellow modder, no matter how much you dislike him/her, betrays the very principles that make modding possible.

This is hilarious. As an example Sir Fartzalot's animation tweaks made me install the mods that i did not want to play before.

@powefull Thanks for the support, I really appreciate it.
I'm following Steam's DMCA strike notice appeal process. I think that's the proper course of action.

Also i'm hoping that you win the push-back, cuz you really deserve it, and if there's anything we can do we'd like to know.

there is no damm way you got DMCAed. That is such a damm petty thing for this small community of mods this game has, i had no ideia someone could take this so seriously.

Sad to hear that you got dmcad isn't it enough to give credit to their work? And ppl also have to use the mods together, so what seems to be the problem?

@powerful Of course, a lot of classes need this sort of adjustments, I started with the "Butcher Bird", and have several others in the pipeline, but got DMCA.

There's a clique of modders from Discord working hard to try to curtail my work and try to DMCA whatever I put out that they can get away with.

They already DMCA the Somber HBM and Somber HLM. The only reason that they haven't DMCA this one is that Koala had already agreed and he's sticking with his word.

But no worries, I'm pushing back on the DMCA abuse, the process takes 10+ days. If I succeed and they are reinstated, a lot of classes that need reworks will get it.

nice mod as allways, have you ever tought about doing this to class mods? i could think of a few that really need/deserve your touch-ups

@Generic Explosive Barrel Are you sure? Unsub from the mod and sub again. Lmk if you still have the issue.

I tested it locally and it should not be flipped.

Lmao. Shriekling is still backwards.

Love these. More in theme with vanilla stylization

magnificent work friend

Somber: HLM

What your upload next?

I uploaded a previous build and tested the Shriekling, fixed the mirrored image introduced in latest version
(I'm starting to see why Dragonbones and the converter are unreliable and the need to switch to Spine asap)

@ervin.patague Thanks for the bug report

Thanks for working so hard on all of these.

the shrieklings idle sprites are backwards for some reason.

Wow this is amazing! Now squealer and deer really look menacing.

@waxishi omg, after what you said, I just couldn't unsee the KFC reference. I had to update the thumbnail, thanks for pointing this out!

@whatparents this mod only contain sprites, no mashes. Like any patch, just load above KCC

skin version mods much more beneficial but, when it comes to mash, it makes harder to use in your load order.

For a moment, I misread that as "Somber KFC". Combined with the thumbnail, I was thinking we were going to get a mod for the birds with some fried chicken. Hamlet KFC.