DONATING
2024 Update on donations & website ads
I would like to share something important with you. Ever since I started making maps for the Escape from Tarkov community I have really enjoyed the whole process of gathering in-game reference, making 3D models, collaborating with the wiki for up-to-date information & getting direct feedback from the community on work-in-progress updates. It has proven to be an amazing way for me to improve, to sharpen my skills as a 3D modeler & staying motivated all at the same time.
On the flip-side, making the maps is very time consuming. I would gladly put more time into it but in order to do so I need to start thinking of ways to monetize the map-making other than only relying on donations. I get about ~20K unique visitors who come to my site every month but on average I get one 10€ donation during that same time. Dont get me wrong – I am very grateful for any donation no matter the sum and I try to honor that by putting all donators names on my maps and/or WIP images in the form of grafitti, fake ads or something similar. It’s just not enough if I want to put more time into it.
Because of that I have activated Google ads on my site. It’s annoying & I completely understand using an ablocker to get rid of them but if you think that my maps are useful (or if you just want to support what I do) then please consider turning the adblocker off for the site occasionally or dropping a small donation using the paypal link in the bottom right of my site. If everybody who visited the site just donated 1€ I could do this for a living & invest in courses / tools to improve them further.
And dont worry. I am never going to charge or force payment for any of my maps. No paywall gated bullshit. They will stay free & available to anybody who comes to the site, the wiki & or any of the websites I have given permission to host them. Worst case I will just produce them at a much slower pace.
// re3mr
THANK YOU!
All of the donations that I get are reinvested into my 3D work in some capacity. I either use them to purchase addons that speed up my workflow, courses that teach me something new or computer hardware to speed up render times. Ultimately it helps me become a better 3D artist and for that I am very grateful.
GRAFFITI
To show my appreciation and to give you something in return I started adding names of donators as custom graffiti to different walls on my maps. Your name would show up in a place where there is also graffiti in-game in order to maintain the accuracy of the maps. I cant guarantee that it would be visible/readable on the finished map due to the camera angle or size of the tag but it would be visible during my live streams when I work on the map and probably in some of my social media posts.
All of the graffiti sprites are saved and reused whenever I make new buildings so it’s possible that your name might show up in multiple places and on different maps. With larger donations I usually make multiple variants of the same tag. New names get added with updates made to the maps or with new iterations of the maps.
Your name is displayed in the format <first name + first letter of surname> & it would be the name your donation is made under. If you would like a different name displayed (such as your online alias) then put that in your donation message & I will make that instead.
How long it takes before I add a name to a map could differ depending on the progress on the current map and what kind of map I am currently working on. I often add tags while making individual buildings and then reiterate later on when the map is almost completed.
