On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Erick Henrique wrote: > >> >> I go yumwload this game and to test. I am interested for creation of art >> for open games. Who knows I can help. >> > > The number of images needed is small enough (not all the graphics need to > be replaced) that I think we don't need some dedicated infrastructure, a > page in the wiki is enough. You can start the page yourself or I can help > with that. > > I think it is OK if you want to go with a completely different graphic > style, the downside would be that the graphics have to be consistent, so you > would have to remake all the images. > > However, I am not sure how to put the graphics back in the .pak file for > testing, so I add Hans on CC, maybe he can give some insight. > > Note for Hans: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] file starfighter.pak > starfighter.pak: Quake I or II world or extension > Hi Hans Then, we need to redesign all the graphs of the game and will use in a version 100% free under GPL, including the sounds and music. Correct? I go to unpack the archive starfighter.pak and to study a form of I redesign everything in a new style. You could create wiki for me, please, Nicu. Who more goes helping in them in this mission? =) For example, joining the archives of sound and musics that will substitute the originals of the Starfighter project. I will make the drawings. Hugs Erick Goes > > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: >> >> Maybe some of you are familiar with a game named Project: >> Starfighter[1], a shoot 'em up whcih used to be part of Fedora (it >> is still available in Fedora 9 - use "yum install starfighter"): >> >> [1] http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/starfighter.php >> >> Unfortunately, this game is not entirely free, it uses some non-free >> data files (mostly graphics, music and sounds) so it was temporarily >> pulled from Fedora, until those graphics are replaced. >> Hans de Goede, from the Games SIG[2], contacted me and asked for >> help: while the music and sounds can be replaced with free >> equivalents from other games, there is a need for new graphics. >> >> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games >> >> I persuaded Hans to file a request in the DesignService queue[3] and >> to make the data available in an usable format[4] (it uses to be in >> a .pak file which needed special tools to open). >> >> [3] >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/DesignService#Graphics_for_the_game_starfighter >> [4] >> http://people.atrpms.net/~hdegoede/starfighter-data.tar.gz<http://people.atrpms.net/%7Ehdegoede/starfighter-data.tar.gz> >> <http://people.atrpms.net/%7Ehdegoede/starfighter-data.tar.gz> >> >> Now what's needed from us: the tarball contains a "gfx" directory, >> with a number of PNG images. Among those are some which need to be >> replaced: character portraits and starfighter (and other spacecraft) >> images. >> >> I have to witness that this is not my favorite game genre (I can't >> play 5 minutes before getting bored) and also I don't have >> experience in that particular drawing style (pixel level tweaking in >> a raster editor), so probably I won't do much for it (maybe I'll try >> some portraits). >> >> So if anyone like this game and/or that style of graphics, this may >> be a fun project and a noble goal (freeing a game). >> > > -- > nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com > Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ > Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org > my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-art-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list > -- http://www.projetofedora.org http://www.mytoons.com/br4in *********************************************** DESIGN LIVRE *********************************************** <<Imaginando Desenhando Animando>>
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