@Sheridan: Thank you for saving the conversation, I actually wanted to get it but I am serious when I say I no longer have access to the slack. Temp email sign up, It is a shame I was told the conversation was deleted but that wasn't the main issue I had.
@UMCenturion - "Again, this is a mistake and actions have been taken to correct this. I will leave this post up for the community to see. I do however, wish you would continue to communicate with us as a professional, instead of ignoring messages and spamming threads. You have done great work, and the community sees that. Please assist us in resolving this manner professionally."
I just want to get to the bottom of this too. Unfortunately the reasons I have been provided do not line up with the facts of the situation. My files are not names according to a set convention but there is a clear way to check if something has been added and that is looking into the pack files. Here is a section of the helmets:
As you can see, the helmet pack was merely copy and pasted into the Ancient Empires files. Now where would a person get the files? First they would go to my Steam mod page where I hosted the files and had download links for all to see here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfil...?id=1217341916
I divided my packs into several packs due to loading and editing. The helmet pack come from the rar titled:
Rome II HD 0.95.rar
The pack file that contains these helmets as titled above is:
@celt_rome2_hd_helmets
The mod download link comes from the Steam mod page of Celticus Magnus, the file rar is called Rome II HD 0.95, and the pack file that the files were extracted from has "celt" in the name. Its for these reasons that I just cannot accept the argument that this was a "mistake". Its for this reason that I believe I have been deceived by the team. The truth of the matter is someone had to go through the effort to install my mod, extract its files, and purposefully choose not to credit my work in their mod despite the fact that it is visible on nearly every single unit in the game. Thankfully Sheridan provided the statement that I wanted to send in the first place.
You stated this:
You approached me when one of the mod users pointed out the True Legions, yes, a DEI part of the models was in your mod. You only spoke to me about using those assets:
At this date, nearly 2 GB worth of my assets had already been in Ancient Empires. Once again you claim it was a mistake. You said a completely independent individual told you that my assets could be used in your mod. When I asked for the individual in question this was the response:
Once again there is the explanation: "We didn't know" Petellius adds in this very post: Edit: as for those of you asking why we could not have just added credits, it is for the exact reason that we had no idea his work was in AE, as soon as we found out UMC began working towards removing them.
My biggest issue and the reason I even decided to report this is the fact that I cannot believe a competent mod team would mistakenly, unknowingly, add nearly 2 GB worth of model variants and textures, from a rar titled after my mod, from pack files with my name inserted into the file name, and then somehow forget to credit or even find out where these models came from. Divide et Impera is a mod that has nothing to do with Rome II HD, has an entirely separate mod page from it, and is completely contained within a different set of packs. You guys claim this to be some grudge, it is no grudge and if you consider a modder seeking control over their own work a grudge, then accusations that these claims are slanderous is slander itself. Your mod has benefited from my assets for nearly a month now and there are two situations that result from the evidence:
A: UMC, you and your mod team accepted models from an unknown source independent of all of my steam pages, rar files, and pack files, and then refused to inform me of who is passing off my work as their own, and then chose not to investigate this for a month until one of your own users compelled you to do so.
OR
B. You knowingly downloaded my files from my mod pages, looked into the packs that contained my name and my mod files, chose to incorporate all of those models into the mod, and then chose not to credit my work on any forum, steam page, or patch note.
Neither are tolerable.
Notification of Stolen Mod Assets.
. Everybody does their part pitching in talent to the modding scene, and credit must be given where it is due!
Originally Posted by The Gravemind
