Is it possible to contribute without making a long term commitment?

[arkanis]

Hi....

First off I couldn't find the right forum to put this in, so I picked off topic. Feel free to move it if appropriate.

I'm new so I'll introduce myself in this paragraph. If you don't care skip over . I tried this game at least 5 years ago or more..... All they had at the time was chat, a bit of the main city, and as I recall one 'quest' where you could run around collecting crystals... there was not combat, or magic or anything. A few days ago I decided to try out the game again and see what has happened to it. Man, has it changed. I got my wife into it, too.

I do 3D art as a bit of a hobby, and I was thinking maybe in my spare time I'd like to try to contribute some models to Planeshift. The thing is I don't want to make a big application and have some expectation of a long term commitment to the team. I just want to model, and contribute. If they like it and use it then that is great, and if they don't use it then I really don't care and wouldn't be upset. So, is there a way I can find out what models the developers might need, what file format is needed, some idea of expected polygon count, and what generally is acceptable for texture resolutions?

Of course I wouldn't be suprised if they didn't need much right now, either...

[Illysia]

Hello... You were playing closer to 10 years ago I take it. I'm at at about 8 years and by the time I started Ojaveda was a new city.

They need contributors but I'm not sure how easy it will be to get models in; I'm not even sure who the main art dev is now. But you can try poking people in IRC. However, I do know that you will need to sign the license to get stuff in game.

You might want to start in the [COMMUNITY] Player Contributions - We would like your help thread

 

[Venalan]

Put simply, yes, this is a volunteer project and any and all contributions are welcomed. If you want to make some simple 3D items it would probably be best if you can also make textures for them as we do no have the people to do that for you. I would suggest that you join IRC and join #planeshift-prospects and try and find either Cale_ or Talad and say that you would like to make some simple(ish) items or whatever it is you would be willing to make and ask for 1-2+ to do.

All little contributions are great, the link Illysia posted was my attempt to try and get some more people helping with lore/histroy which is my department. 

[Chessire]

Hi arkanis, as everyone said its pretty simple to help with the game right now, we need all the help we can get and there is no such thing as long term obligations or anything.
You can participate in the team as much as you like whenever you like. You can either make an account here http://194.116.72.94/nexus/login.php , communicate with us on irc and choose one of the tasks we have available or just make anything you like and donate it to the team (with no guarantee it will be used of course). Both options will require you signing a license that ensures the submitted art can't be reused on other projects, you will still take full credit and can show it as portfolio though. If you choose to make an account I can tell you we have many tasks or any size and difficulty.

[Eonwind]

Hi arkanis and welcome back
Chessire and Venalan are right so I just want to add the same goes for rules, unfortunately getting in touch with the tools and the way we produce things in this department isn't easy or obvious but we already had smaller task being done by prospect like adjusting all alchemy weights (tanks to shadow-knight).
Then if you really want to see your favored (not yet in game) crafting please get in touch and let's make it available for everyone else.