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I made Doom3 hi-res texture down-conversion to Quake wad format some years ago, and this legal issue poped-up at this time... and I remember the discussion was already "tough"...
Basically, reusing part or all content of any game is prohibited, and it cannot be modified, neither re-selled...(please forgive me if it is a too short summary of the legal content :P), but this is the way I understood it... But, as far as I know, if the rule would strictly apply, nor game mods neither partial conversion could not be possible at all.. and I am not even talking about mapping.. though.. So I would say (and I know some people will not be happy me saying that), as long as you are down-grading hi-res texture, and as long as you are not doing business with it (i.e no commercial purpose to make money), you are more or less safe.. It clearly depends what you are aiming there, and how the company you are "modifying" its property will react on.. In anyway, good luck, and please ask Spirit to host the resulting wad on Quaddicted ;) If I not forget you already did the Q2wad.
When I converted the first q2 level to see if they would fit I was surprised to see reactions. Some blamed me I used the q2map for my own purpose, other praised me for a good map. But most of all, it was my first "nice" map after all my average attemps. I totally forgot about SkyCity. Makes me want to play through Unreal SP sometime, it had some cool maps. That opening castle was so badass at the time.
zomggg u guys play so many games... I don't have time for that :p
This weekend spent all day at beach :) FUCKING AWESOME OCTOBER! http://tempo.sapo.pt/local/oeiras with no wind! zomggg u guys play so many games... I don't have time for that :p
This weekend spent all day at beach :) FUCKING AWESOME OCTOBER! http://tempo.sapo.pt/local/oeiras with no wind! Why do all games and almost all other programs leave so many entries in the registery after you uninstall them?? Why can't the uninstall process include deleting all those entries??
Always confused me... To prove they were there. And because they are lazy. Ideally, one should install programs with an installation manager that logs all changes and is capable of unstalling everything completely.
such as your brain, guided by millions of stickies on your monitor. Software isn't up to that standard yet.
Package managers? Pah. does left over registry entries matter though? i mean, presumably, only the application in question is going to actually use them so if it's gone, it's just a bunch of data doing nothing.
Steve jobs has died today. This man was a marketing genius and for sure a visionary in computing. He made Apple an awesome company, producing marvelous products.
RIP Steve, I'll miss you. Today I wore running shoes... inside the house! Couldn't find a turtleneck, sorry buddy.
But it is a real sad thing nonetheless. The guy was very young, and certainly a character who many people loved and admired.
I don't really feel any kind of sadness that Steve Jobs is gone. He had a great life and accomplished more in his life time than I will in mine.
Don't see where all the admiration comes from. For example he didn't build the original Apple computers nor the the modern tablets.
He's the same as Bill Gates, but I doubt Bill Gates will get quite the adulation when he pops it. Or in other words, random multi-billionarie businessman dies. Whoopie. He can afford to have a body transplant or something. Or he will pay scientists to figure out a way to have his consciousness inserted into a computer so that he can then live forever on the internet.
because he's a damned good philanthropist.
Steve Jobs, whether he gave back or didn't, I associate with marketing. And marketing, my friends, is fucking evil. See Bill Hicks.
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