Am Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2008 13:13:49 schrieb Per Inge Mathisen: > For those of you who have not followed the latest events on the forum > and/or IRC, EIDOS have now granted us permission to distribute both > the FMVs and the soundtracks from the original game under the GPL. > This bodes well for the future. > > It does, however, give us somewhat of a challenge for 2.1, which is > way overdue. I believe there is some expectation that our next release > will include the missing data now, and we should discuss if this is a > good idea. I would like some input from the people who worked with the > FMVs on how much work remains to integrate them properly (gerard, > angus...), and I would also like to hear people's opinions on how they > should be distributed. > > Here are my very preliminary thoughts: > * we ship beta3 once we have run some quick network tests on it, > tomorrow or Saturday, with an announcement of the above good news, > adding that we will attempt to integrate as much as possible of it > into the final 2.1 release. > * we put the original soundtracks in a mod to be distributed along with > beta3 * we create a new branch based on trunk to attempt to quickly produce > working FMV code for 2.1 beta4 > * we put the converted FMVs in a tarball on gna.org, but not in the > svn repository (too big, 300mb+) > * for 2.1 we allow the user to play without FMVs, as before, and only > optionally play them if present > * for 2.2 we try to isolate all of the campaign into a mod, so that > you can pull down a single mod to enable the campaign with FMVs, and > find a way for mods to 'register' their presence into the main menu, > etc. Sounds good. For modem people we could also provide a cam-novid.wz download.
Apropos soundtracks. There is still MichaelB et al.'s soundtracks dangling somewhere. Maybe we could add them to beta4 as well? --Dennis
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