Velvet have been caught stealing again

Velvet (previously VelvetMafia) have been caught stealing 3d models again. This time he didn't get as far as releasing it on Steam or anywhere else as I know.

There is a video of a HST, which appears to come from a website that has a lot of ripped game models from TrainSimulator. The ripped model is property of Dovetail Games. Even if the model is available, it's not OK to download and publish. Especially not as "his own".
The video creator was given the mod for the video production and is not affiliated with the creation of the mod or stealing the model as far as we know.

killakanz and others have discussed and pointed out several details that are too similar to have any doubt he in fact used the model he found. It even goes as deep as specific details and faults in the texture, and smoothing angles of certain parts of the mesh.
After details have been revealed, he fled from the discord server and blocked the video creator. Clearly guilty since he's not sticking around to prove he's not.

So for what it's worth; take care of any mods you've subscribed to on Steam from Velvet in case they disappear an ruin your savegames.

After the previous round he apologized, said he had learned his lesson and wouldn't do it again. Fast forward a few months: repeat.

We're all gutted and disappointed.

Zitat von Farnsworth

@ Olha Haldor how do I find out on Steam, if I have subscribed mods from Velvet? a direct search for "velvet" in the workshop, of course, nothing and under the user search of Steam, he finds thousands ... Do you have anything that limits the search?

https://steamcommunity.com/id/…rkshopfiles/?appid=446800
That is his workshop for Transport Fever.

@ 'Macongo'
It was never published, because we caught him in the act before it got to the point.
The guy who made the videos for him have said there were other mods in the making, which when he inspected the original content compared to the mods he was given to make videos of, is a complete rip of Train Simulator and other third party creators.

There's no telling if Velvet will remove all the other mods he in fact got approval to do from the original content creator. IF he does, it'll probably ruin a few people's savegames. Better safe than sorry.