fraggle
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fargo said:
O_o I know this! Please read my posts. The whole thread is about finding totally free graphics and include them in Freedoom. This would not contradict any law I assume!
What we need in here is suggestions. The members can suggest some WADs which have their own monsters graphics, not copied from the original and modified. Then, the authors of these graphics will de asked for permission to include their work in Freedoom. I hope it is clear now.
I suggested "The Monster Resource Wad" but it turned to be illegal. So, I may suggest BatmanDoom WAD! Yes, maybe the monsters in there cannot fit, but the wad has some original graphics which can be altered to satisfy our need.
This would be acceptable, but proper permissions need to be acquired from the authors to reuse the graphics.
Another valid point which you've brought up is that the monsters from Batman Doom don't really fit. I think it's counterproductive to do this: having a bunch of sprites that conflict with the rest of the WAD isn't really any better than having a box saying "graphic not done yet!" IMO. Infact, I'd say that having conflicting sprites is worse than having ones than having none at all: potential contributors who see a mishmash of conflicting sprites that don't fit together would get a bad opinion of Freedoom and be deterred from contributing (to an extent, I think bad quality graphics already deters a lot of people from helping out). When the project originally started, there were plans to use the POVDoom sprites as substitutes for the monsters until better ones were found; in the end, I didn't include them for this very reason.
In summary: using 100% original sprites from existing PWADs with permission is perfectly okay, as long as the sprites fit in to what is currently in Freedoom.
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01-07-07 05:13 
