Well yes and no. I think mostly it’s up to you to determine if the model is good or not. .here is an example.

I wanted to make a model and I needed a female face. (A mask). I found one in creative commons. When I attempted to use the face/head model I realized it wasn’t symmetrical. Or level. And had weird internal geometry.

I fixed those issues before I could use it for my mask model.

I figured since I did all that work and it was a nice female head, I would upload it on thingiverse so that others wouldn’t have to do through all the same trouble.

But I don’t want to just print a female head. I didn’t need one. So I didn’t. There is no photo on that upload.

It’s not really necessary.

I did, however, print the mask I made and posted photos of it with the model.

I hope my example illustrates why enforcing the photo rule isn’t going to work in all scenarios.

Just fyi. On makerworld.com, in order to upload a profile file (a pre made print file), you are required to use a photo of the model.

I think it works as a rule for that.

Generally the nms community is pretty friendly and inclusive.

It’s one of the few games where women aren’t too worried about their gender being known. Other players will still generally help you out or do nexus missions with you regardless. I’ve only ever been cussed out once by a sexist and after some other players heard about it there was some justice carried out. The greater community doesn’t tolerate trolls or toxic players.

Im part of the facebook group and people are fairly friendly and helpful on it.

It’s probably one of the least toxic gaming communities out there. I’m not surprised the community stepped up and helped the player out.

I take breaks from nms but I always come back. And it’s in part due to the community.

I’m super looking forward to Light no Fire.

Hopefully the same vibe in the community.

Fusion seems legit to me and it’s free for non commercial use. It seems more intuitive than other cad software though they all have a learning curve

I found fusion360 and blender to be best for me. Fusion made by same company as tinkercad.

I tried freeCAD and had constant errors (like 20 at a time) and couldn’t figure out what was going on even tried googling. And that’s when I learned that’s just how it goes with that program.

I like blender to make sculpted models. Tutorials and figuring things out myself was frustrating but now I have a decent grasp on the basics and I find it much easier to use and keep learning new things all the time with it.

I’ve only used fusion for a few projects that required it and had to rely a lot on tutorial videos but I was able to do the modeling. I plan to learn more of it in the future but it’s pretty decent so far.

I’ve not used any of the others you have listed.