Hi Acriax,
I appreciate the creative spirit of what you’re doing here, however, promoting this as Placeholders may not garner the attention it deserves. My prospective on this as a Dev is, I rather save development time by previz’ing with the asset I’m going to actually use in production. There are plenty of free high-quality assets (many released by Epic themselves) to use as placeholders. If the assets are high quality and suitable for production use, than why not promote them as FREE AAA Ready-To-Use Assets.
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With all of that said, I do have a concept for the application for Placeholders in Production! The concept of *Suitable Substitutes. *The idea came to me when working on a solution to Load Assets at run-time in which a Suitable Substitute is used in place of the Loading Asset, until loading is complete. I’m developing my games with a subsystem that allows the developers to create Suitable Substitute Categories, swapping Text, 2D, 3D, Audio Assets in the same category on-demand at runtime.
Potential uses for Suitable Substitutes is to allow the multiple players to choose a different theme, however, collaboratively play in the same server level map. Dependent on the theme selected, the player sees/hears different assets for Entities and Architecture that corresponds with the theme. So if a players select a Robot Annihilation, Zombie Apocalypse, Demonic Revelations, the models are swapped out by theme accordingly. I’m thinking this would be cool way to approach getting 4 or morel Games with different themes out a single game design.