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Do you think using Spritecraft and/or GIMP is "cheating"?

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Victor1261:
Here's my two cents. Turning a picture into a bunch of pixels that you are going to place block into, in my opinion, isn't cheating. If this was, then sitting somewhere, using a pencil and a ruler to grid something out would also be "cheating", but it's not, because that's how you make pixel arts. Of course, you can free hand the pixel arts, but these programs are used simply to assist you, they don't do all the work. The real work, in my opinion, comes down to taking the time to actually placing all the different blocks. This is highly time consuming, and requires much patience. 

Chief149:
Yeah, not really cheating as long as there's no program or macro of some sort being used to automatically place the blocks to make up the sprite for you.

Wyboth:
You had to post this. You had to.
I will say this one time, and one time only: using Spritecraft and GIMP is cheating, because they create a blueprint of blocks for you. All you do then is copy them into Minecraft. There's no challenge to it at all. When you make them legitimately, it is much harder because there are hundreds of shades in the picture and only a few blocks to choose from. If you don't believe me, then try it yourself. Make a large picture in Minecraft using only Paint, then tell me it doesn't take skill. That is all.

Mr_Mr_Mr:
Cheating on sprites is when you use a program to make it for you such as MCEdit. Placing the blocks on your own isn't cheating because you're taking the time to place them. Wyboth is just hating.

Since blueprints are suddenly cheats now... Does that mean people cheat when they makes sky scrapers safe by using blue prints?

UnknownHedgehog:

--- Quote from: Wyboth on August 05, 2012, 12:10:14 am ---You had to post this. You had to.
I will say this one time, and one time only: using Spritecraft and GIMP is cheating, because they create a blueprint of blocks for you. All you do then is copy them into Minecraft. There's no challenge to it at all. When you make them legitimately, it is much harder because there are hundreds of shades in the picture and only a few blocks to choose from. If you don't believe me, then try it yourself. Make a large picture in Minecraft using only Paint, then tell me it doesn't take skill. That is all.

--- End quote ---

So because it's more difficult to use Paint, using an easier application, such as GIMP, is "cheating" (even though it doesn't really go with the definition of "Cheat")?

Does the difficulty of the task really matter as long as you get the same result? You have two pixel arts that look exactly alike. One person used Paint and spent hours examining each pixel and then placing the block. Another guy used GIMP and has a blueprint of the art and took a few hours patiently place each block. The GIMP guy's cheating just because he used an easier method even though the result is the same for both?

Imo, work smart, not hard.

I'm not saying using Paint is bad; in fact, if that's how one prefers it and likes the challenge of doing it like that, then more power to you. But because somebody did an easier method to it, doesn't mean it's cheating.

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