"free" textures at a sight that's almost closed

[Lord Stenvaagi]

Hi There are some free textures at gamebeep.com which closes on November 1st.

The license for the free ones may fit into The Dark Mod but I'm not sure.

Happy gaming

[angua]

The license doesn't look so good. It's aimed at commerical products. Here's one sentence of it:

 

...Licensee guarantees that the resources will be distributed in a format, and with their customers understanding, that the Licensee's Customers cannot and will not separate these licensed resources from the Software Package obtained from the Licensee...

[grayman]

Perhaps demagogue can look at this.

 

angua's quote (to me) simply says that if we distribute these textures in TDM, players can't rebundle them and distribute them separately. That sounds reasonable.

 

But I'm no lawyer.

[Bikerdude]

Thanks foir the heads up Sten but,

 

I've checked the website out and there is practically nothing left, and anything that's left is either payable or if fee the res is too low.

[Tels]

Adding things to TDM wich aren't under the license that TDM is under is always a huge problem, because you suddenly need to have two sep. asset bases in one package where each file is listed to belong to one or the other license. That is if both licenses actually allow to ship things together.

[Lord Stenvaagi]

Ok thanks for the responses. I guess the best way is to just make my own textures....maybe with gimp or camera. What size/resolution would br good?

[Bikerdude]

Ok thanks for the responses. I guess the best way is to just make my own textures....maybe with gimp or camera. What size/resolution would br good?

Having made some textures just recently I would say 2048*2048 as a minimum, our wiki mentions res as low as 1024*1024, but I suggets only going that low if the source image is of very high or photographic quality.

[Springheel]

None of our textures are 2048x2048, and I'd shudder to think of the mod size if they were. Anything larger than 1024x1024 should be used sparingly.

[Bikerdude]

None of our textures are 2048x2048, and I'd shudder to think of the mod size if they were. Anything larger than 1024x1024 should be used sparingly.

Ah ok, this would suggest the sources images I worked with a while back were of poor quality then it seems.

[New Horizon]

if your source images are 300dpi, then even 512 x 512 should look decent.

[Bikerdude]

if your source images are 300dpi, then even 512 x 512 should look decent.

Ah yes I didnt think to check for that, just checked one of the textures and sure enough a paltry 96 dpi, bah!

[SeriousToni]

your screen only can show off 72dpi, so anything above this will make the texture larger in size to be able to show all the "dots"

so a 256x256 with 72 dpi will not be enough for high definition, but a 256x256 in 300 dpi sure will

[Mr Mike]

Pixels are pixels. End of. A 512 x 512 image on a monitor is exactly the same at 72DPI or 300DPI for all intents and purposes. It only really relates to how large it will appear when sent to a printer.

 

Try it yourself. Change the DPI of an image in Photoshop (or GIMP) without re-sampling it... exactly the same image.

[Springheel]

That's my understanding as well.

[Bikerdude]

So why did the textures I worked on that were 96dpi look so poor in-game, its like the res was high enough.

[Springheel]

Did you save them as powers of 2?

[Bikerdude]

Did you save them as powers of 2?

where the original image file was square then yes, where the images were rectangular as in 1024 x 512 or 2048 x 1024 then no? or is that still considered 'po2'

[Springheel]

Yeah, those would be fine.

[Bikerdude]

Yeah, those would be fine.

Some of the source files then must just have been poor quality then.