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And how can you disagree with my taste?



Your taste is just your personal matter. To be brutal honestly: I don't care much about it. But you present it here in a public forum and for me it sounded a bit disrespected. There were no appreciation at all as if you could do all that better than the artists out there

You said:
"lets make every surface metal, with gratings and patches and nuts and bolts, and put some grime and add some bump maps"

That sounds not like appreciation. It sounds like it could be done in a few minutes, easy dumb stuff, you could do it if you would like that style but hey, fortunately you don't like it.

I did it myself and I know that it can be a hard job to create textures in a commercial way:
http://www.dexsoft-games.com/scifi.html

Though I may be wrong but it would be better sometimes to show more appreciation and respect. That is my taste in this case. And I appreciate a lot in this world.

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