Quote from AnthIf only the removal of comments actually made the workshop less useless for new and unknown designers.
I am new to skinning the weapons, and I posted 1 skin as a test to use the workshop more than anything else. I had 6 comments all of which were:
Quote from Workshop Spammernice skin. plz look and rate mine: "obscurely named skin with no connection to how the gun actually looks"
Not only that, but unless they changed it, the thumbnail image you uploaded your skin with was fixed, so updating the skin is not going to attract more people.
Feedback in general on the workshop is pretty poor. You're better off finding somewhere like this and working on it. But even then, people here post their skins in their complete form as they are submitted.
The workshop itself is full of spam from people just blanket applying textures they find on google or absent mindedly churned out in photoshop because they don't know what they're doing.
Speaking of which there is a horrifically low number of quality tutorials on how people can do it. I'm sure there are plenty of designers out there who could make fantastic looking weapons, but have no idea how to deal with the 3D side of things






