fargo

Unfortunately, I'm not an artist. I just gave a suggestion hopping for someone to adopt it.

What about robotical monsters? I think they would be easier to draw! What do you think?

If no artists are working on its graphics, then how can freedoom be advanced?! Is it a matter of money? No enough donations may be? Or is it because of developers lost interest? Maybe they don't have time for the project and no new comers are joining? I'm not sure. It is sad to see such a good opensource project dieing :(

What is wrong with people in here?! I have never talked about stealing or content scavenging! All what I have been talking about can be summarized in the following: 1) Find good FREE graphics 2) Ask the author to reuse his/her graphics in Freedoom 3) If permission granted, use them, otherwise look some where else! What is wrong with this scenario?!

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.

What I'm writing about here is not similar to what you referred to. I'm after mixing totally free and original monsters' graphics with Freedoom. The idea is only to push Freedoom development little bit forward, not to contradict the original idea of being open source and not to bring some legal concerns. I think we, the members of community who support Freedoom, can achieve this as many have already created monsters for their IWADs for free and would welcome helping an open source project.

I'm suggesting to the freedoom team to do this and integrate graphics into the iwad. The reason for this suggestion is to push the development forward. After all these years, the project is still at version 0.5 with many monsters carrying blackboards saying graphics has not been completed yet.

Yah, I meant graphics of the monsters, not their behavior. I thought the ones used in the monster resource wad were not copyrighted. Ok, what about other wads that use their own monsters' graphics? There are lots of good wads out there. We can ask for permission to use some graphics in Freedoom from those wads' authors.

The only problem, IMO, with the current Freedoom is monsters. So, what about having some monsters from The Monster Resource Wad in freedoom iwad?