The Mapcore Open Source Initiative

Fak man, STOP stealing my SWEET ASS GIF's  

anyways, great idea, i would totally help you guys after my FUCKING BUSY MONTH ends

I like this idea, I'll probably be doing some custom content soon.. if I ever get to that stage(still fighting with my map layout)

and I'll gladly share any custom content I make.

I massively approve of this.

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it's my favorite gif i've seen in a long time. it owns p much

that's true, its preety fucking great

Why do I imagine that we'll get hundreds of PSDs with hidden dick layers?

Good initiative

Should prove helpful to designers who do not have the time/knowledge to create their own custom content for Source engine.

could be engine agnostic and people can also post requests? would be a sweet system anyway.

I'd rather keep it source only, and only provide models and uncompressed textures on request in proper format(fbx, obj etc)

i would contribute some of mine, but i don't think it would be up to par with what you guys do.

Great idea!

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I'd rather keep it source only, and only provide models and uncompressed textures on request in proper format(fbx, obj etc)

Yup, this would be a good compromise.

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i would contribute some of mine, but i don't think it would be up to par with what you guys do.

Doesn't matter, it's probably still way better than us noobs screwing around in 3DSMax or whatever

We have the best of several disciplines here. You have artists who might want to see their stuff in maps and you have mappers in need of art. Why not bring the two together? We'll collect everything people contribute and offer a platform for people to meet. Kinda like what E-Freak said but bigger.

Good initiative. I like it!

Yes, I approve.

Sounds awesome!

How would it be handled? One large file? Some sort of searchable database? I'd be willing to help out if that's at all needed.

I remember facepunch doing something like this a while ago, here's the thread if your curious

http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1272621

Like the Facepunch project, Dropbox would be neat, as in that you don't need to get extra webspace to host everything and it's updated automatically. Don't like the idea of linking it directly to your csgo folder though, I'd prefer it to be like a shop: see everything available and just get what you need If there would be a folder for every contributing author, it's easy to keep track of who to give credit too, not at all unimportant in a project like this!