Not sure who is blind here but i don't see this being a "blatant plagiarism" at all. Both designs are completely different and don't even share a same theme, whatsoever.
In the world of War Paints, it's easy to occuse one for being dirty simply because always the only difference is in coloring, not models

Not even close, man. Jesus.

Neither are in the game, it doesn't matter whether or not the idea was copied. The only thing that matters is if Valve and the community like either of them enough to add to the game. people will vote for the best, otherwise what's the point of the voting system.
There are lots of watermelon warpaints on the workshop, you don't seem to complain about those.

Originally posted by drongo:

This is a new low even for you, Vipes. Also you misspelled "available" on the official promo image, what a ♥♥♥♥wit.

A new low? A spelling error? your being so pedantic in order to be toxic to this guy.

How would vipes have even gotten the texture and changed it to begin with.
I can vouch for the texture being their own considering the difficulty they had with the specular map, its just a similar theme considering the one you pointed to is based off of the NES light blaster, and this the US SNES.

In short cool your jets.

This item submission is nowhere near close to being plagiarism.

You claim that the only difference between this design and the one I helped make is the color being changed from orange to purple. This is completely false as you easily left out many more differences in order to create outrage from nothing.

-The stickers on both designs are completely different, with ours being a spoof of the NES Zapper's logo on the side, with this design's sticker being a stylized version of Saxton Hale made to look similar to Mario.

-The gray patterns on both weapons look similar at first, but one could easily see that the groove patterns on both are much different with this design having much more grooves than ours.

-The beige pattern on our design features engraved text and four grooves near the bottom, where this design has none.

-Both designs have different textures used on each of the patterns.

The biggest similarity between both designs is that they're both based off past Nintendo console color palettes. Even if the makers behind this design were inspired by ours, it's not plagiarism. I really like this design personally and I'd like to see it implemented into the game. The devs behind this design have talent and I can appreciate it. To call it plagiarism is to ignore the talent of the people who made it and to further restrict creativity. Just because someone popularized or created an idea first, doesn't mean anyone isn't allowed to be inspired by it and make something similar.

Originally posted by Pie_Savvy:

How would vipes have even gotten the texture and changed it to begin with.
I can vouch for the texture being their own considering the difficulty they had with the specular map, its just a similar theme considering the one you pointed to is based off of the NES light blaster, and this the US SNES.

In short cool your jets.

I get it's based on the same product but quite literally the only difference is a color change.

The orange is now purple & has been given the exact same pattern as the gray part (which is incredibly lazy.) There's a mascot emblem too, but it looks terrible so I didn't want to acknowledge it. Someone probably drew that in ten minutes.

This is also Vipes, a guy who has been in hot water for dubious workshop submissions before, whether it's plagiarism or weirdness with submission rights. People have the right to know he's still up to his old tricks.

Originally posted by drongo:

Originally posted by Pie_Savvy:

How would vipes have even gotten the texture and changed it to begin with.
I can vouch for the texture being their own considering the difficulty they had with the specular map, its just a similar theme considering the one you pointed to is based off of the NES light blaster, and this the US SNES.

In short cool your jets.

I get it's based on the same product but quite literally the only difference is a color change.

The orange is now purple & has been given the exact same pattern as the gray part (which is incredibly lazy.) There's a mascot emblem too, but it looks terrible so I didn't want to acknowledge it. Someone probably drew that in ten minutes.

This is also Vipes, a guy who has been in hot water for dubious workshop submissions before, whether it's plagiarism or weirdness with submission rights. People have the right to know he's still up to his old tricks.

There is so many things wrong with this that I don't know where to begin. I've never plagiarized any workshop item. I never had any issues with submission rights. All the "hot water" I've been in is just a few people making ♥♥♥♥ up.

Originally posted by drongo:

This prior war paint design was made February 2nd of this year. If you look at the textures of the design on Super Mann Co., and compare them to the other earlier design here, you will notice the only difference is orange has been changed to light purple.

This is a new low even for you, Vipes. Also you misspelled "available" on the official promo image, what a ♥♥♥♥wit.

i'm u're bigest fan

Thankyou for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on my work with the sticker; with how clever & critical you are, I'm very sure you could make something much better.

One, no one has a copyright on their creations. There could be thousands of similar community creations. Two, I don't see anything wrong with a paint based off the NES and one based off the SNES. Three, you're an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Originally posted by Vipes:

Originally posted by drongo:

I get it's based on the same product but quite literally the only difference is a color change.

The orange is now purple & has been given the exact same pattern as the gray part (which is incredibly lazy.) There's a mascot emblem too, but it looks terrible so I didn't want to acknowledge it. Someone probably drew that in ten minutes.

This is also Vipes, a guy who has been in hot water for dubious workshop submissions before, whether it's plagiarism or weirdness with submission rights. People have the right to know he's still up to his old tricks.

There is so many things wrong with this that I don't know where to begin. I've never plagiarized any workshop item. I never had any issues with submission rights. All the "hot water" I've been in is just a few people making ♥♥♥♥ up.

You plagiarized an item right now, we're in a discussion thread pertaining to it.

You also blatantly take existing map textures & post them on the workshop as a unique 'item' you made.

And that's not even bringing up your blatant theft of already-existing concepts. You do this a lot, and it's extremely conspicuous.

Your submissions are the sole reason I wish the workshop item voting queue allowed me to filter specific users. Everything you seem to submit is either stolen or you didn't actually contribute anything to it.

Originally posted by drongo:

Originally posted by Vipes:

There is so many things wrong with this that I don't know where to begin. I've never plagiarized any workshop item. I never had any issues with submission rights. All the "hot water" I've been in is just a few people making ♥♥♥♥ up.

You plagiarized an item right now, we're in a discussion thread pertaining to it.

You also blatantly take existing map textures & post them on the workshop as a unique 'item' you made.

And that's not even bringing up your blatant theft of already-existing concepts. You do this a lot, and it's extremely conspicuous.

Your submissions are the sole reason I wish the workshop item voting queue allowed me to filter specific users. Everything you seem to submit is either stolen or you didn't actually contribute anything to it.

1) I did not plagiarize the zapper skin. One is a zapper, one is a snes. Mine also has custom wear.
2) Would you like for me to pull up the raw textures and you try to find a match?
3) It's a hood.
4) My submission was submitted before Tomb Readers.

Nothing I've done is stolen, and I do contribute to any submission I'm on.

Originally posted by drongo:

Originally posted by Pie_Savvy:

How would vipes have even gotten the texture and changed it to begin with.
I can vouch for the texture being their own considering the difficulty they had with the specular map, its just a similar theme considering the one you pointed to is based off of the NES light blaster, and this the US SNES.

In short cool your jets.

I get it's based on the same product but quite literally the only difference is a color change.

The orange is now purple & has been given the exact same pattern as the gray part (which is incredibly lazy.) There's a mascot emblem too, but it looks terrible so I didn't want to acknowledge it. Someone probably drew that in ten minutes.

This is also Vipes, a guy who has been in hot water for dubious workshop submissions before, whether it's plagiarism or weirdness with submission rights. People have the right to know he's still up to his old tricks.

Did you not read the post I made? I literally explained why the design isn't plagiarism.

Also whether or not you like the mascot emblem is not relevent at all.

i'm one of the creators of the Mann Blaster warpaint and i can say that this warpaint is not a plagiarism, the only thing that is similar is that both warpaints are based on Nintendo history

and as the person who made 80% of the textures of our warpaint, i can clearly say that the textures used in this warpaint are not similar, at all

this warpaint is really well made.

Originally posted by drongo:

You do this a lot, and it's extremely conspicuous.

You didn't even look at the upload dates. this is a new low, even for you Drongo. A guy who has been in hot water before for making pointless discussion posts, blindly accusing people of plagiarising.