Author Topic: My latest map, lava elimination!  (Read 5476 times)

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Re: My latest map, lava elimination!
« Reply #20 on: June 28, 2006, 12:16:16 PM »
If those are the lava textures from quake2, they're copyrighted and you can't legally redistribute them.

If I get some nasty warnings I'll take down my packs, but if they are copyrighted, aren't we breaking copyright law with your jitdownload funcs by downloading these textures off servers? I mean, isn't the Q2 itself open source? Kinda silly to retain copyright on textures from an open source game...

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« Reply #21 on: June 28, 2006, 01:32:21 PM »
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« Reply #22 on: June 28, 2006, 02:02:03 PM »
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« Reply #23 on: June 28, 2006, 03:36:10 PM »
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Re: My latest map, lava elimination!
« Reply #24 on: June 28, 2006, 03:36:41 PM »
I don't think Q2 had any rain textures.

Edit: And if you've done rain the way I think you have, the r_speeds may not be bad, but it will rape the fillrate on lowend cards.

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aren't we breaking copyright law with your jitdownload funcs by downloading these textures off servers
The download functions currently used are the Quake2 ones.  I never finished my fast file downloading implementation.  Regardless of the method used, transferring copyrighted material to somebody who doesn't own rights to use them is illegal.  It doesn't matter if you transfer them through the game, a web browser, bittorrent, or kazaa.  The game engine is open source.  The game media is not.  Also, the textures use a different palette and look awful in paintball2 anyway.  If you want to use Quake2 stuff, use it with Quake2.

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Re: My latest map, lava elimination!
« Reply #25 on: June 28, 2006, 03:48:30 PM »
Bah. I feel like stealing a cracked version of Q2 now. Thanks for the information on stuff I don't care about, Jits! Soon enough you'll tell me I can't redistribute maps designed for Q2...

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Re: My latest map, lava elimination!
« Reply #26 on: June 28, 2006, 03:56:51 PM »
I'll tell you first, you can't redistribute Q2 maps. >:(

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Re: My latest map, lava elimination!
« Reply #27 on: June 28, 2006, 03:57:27 PM »
Screw that!

Yo ho ho, a pirate's life for me... :)

*sends a box full of squirrel heads to the RIAA office*

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Re: My latest map, lava elimination!
« Reply #28 on: June 29, 2006, 11:42:17 AM »
What if you got the lava texture for free, even if it is copywrighted? I have this disk with hundreds of free copywrighted pictures that several buisnesses use.

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Re: My latest map, lava elimination!
« Reply #29 on: June 29, 2006, 12:33:38 PM »
What if you got the lava texture for free, even if it is copywrighted? I have this disk with hundreds of free copywrighted pictures that several buisnesses use.

Sometimes you can use copyrighted pictures under certain conditions (like Creative Commons Copyright, etc), but from Jitspoe's explanation, it appears that all Q2 textures are copyrighted and redistribution is illegal. So technically I'm a software pirate. Shackle me now, kiddies ::)

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Re: My latest map, lava elimination!
« Reply #30 on: April 03, 2007, 11:48:46 AM »
i cant ever see sceenshots and download maps