good "free media" sources?

by Aardappel on 01/29/2002 19:33, 36 messages, last message: 06/20/2002 01:46, 4583 views, last view: 05/15/2024 05:25

as most of you are aware, cube is build up from stuff I created myself, or by friends, or available "free for non commercial use" on the net. One particular item that is VERY hard to come by is good sounds, in particular pain & death sounds. Sofar I could get by with my own gruntings, but now with the added monsters, the lack of good sounds is really becoming more urgent.

And remember when you suggest something, it has to be "free for non-commercial use", i.e. fully legal. Sounds ripped from some old game won't do.

Oh, another media type which is problematic is monster models. If anyone as any hints here, please let me know.

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#1: Stuff

by rickclark on 01/30/2002 04:18

I have a CD that has about 2000 sounds on it. I'll check to see if there are any that may work. They can be used license free.

What about the Md2's that are being used for JDoom? Also, since the Quake sources have been released, could you use them? Since Cube is non-commercial, you might be able to. One other thought would be to email John Romero (www.johnromero.com). He is very pro-community and might be willing to share some of his stuff or direct you to some resources.

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#2: Re: Stuff

by Goetzenzar on 01/30/2002 11:07, refers to #1

This is funny, we talked about Romero yesterday in #cube.

John Romero should grunt better than Aard, which is hard. :)

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#3: rick

by Aardappel on 01/30/2002 19:43

the jdoom ones are for doom monsters, and as such not really good (I don't think its cool to have cube SP have doom monsters that behave differently). Also I don't believe these models are 100% legal (merely "tolerated" by id software).

quake "source" which has been released is for the engine, which is the last thing cube needs (it has its own engine) and is also released under the GPL which is very restrictive. Quake media is still copyrighted.
I am not sure what romero could do.. he seems into all these 2d games nowadays. Yeah I bet he could grunt like hell ;)

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#4: Polycount

by rickclark on 01/31/2002 05:51

You probably know about this, but Polycount has a bunch of models:

http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/

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#5: Sounds

by rickclark on 01/31/2002 06:13

This place:

http://planethalflife.com/studiosound/

Has a bunch of sound artists that will do custom sounds for free if the project is free, like Cube. Might be worth a look.

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#6: rick

by Aardappel on 02/01/2002 02:09

polycount is where all the player/monster models already come from.

That audio site sounds cool.. I submitted a request for pain/death grunts, now lets see what happens :)

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#7: Re: Stuff

by larrycow on 02/10/2002 05:38, refers to #1

The sources of doom and quake are now free (GPL), but not the game data. So you can't use them, sadly.

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#8: Golgotha Stuff

by rickclark on 02/10/2002 18:16

All the stuff for Golgotha has been released to the public domain including textures and models. Might be worth a look:

http://crack.com/golgotha/

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#9: Doom ][ Textures

by pushplay on 02/26/2002 06:19

The Doom 2 retexturing project is recreating all the textures from Doom 2 in a higher resolution, and from scratch. That makes it all nice and legal. It would be cool to have all of those textures available, and I think the project leader might be kind enough to share.

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#10: Re: Doom ][ Textures

by pushplay on 02/26/2002 06:20, refers to #9

I suppose a link might be helpful

http://switch.to/doom2textures/

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#11: Re: Doom ][ Textures

by SleepwalkR on 02/26/2002 09:29, refers to #9

Thanks for the link, pushplay. There are some really great looking textures among those.

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#12: ..

by Shockie on 03/08/2002 12:40

aardy, what do you program this in?

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#13: Doom Textures

by rickclark on 03/10/2002 15:39

There is a project to make new 24-bit Doom textures:

http://switch.to/doom2textures

These are new textures, not versions of the old ones, so there isn't any copyright violation.

Maybe they would allow the use in Cube. This may make Doom Tournament a little more Doom-like. :)

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#14: ahem

by pushplay on 03/11/2002 00:41

Yeah, if you look 4 posts up... ;)

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#15: Re: ahem

by rickclark on 03/11/2002 02:04, refers to #14

Heh. Great minds think alike. :)

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#16: Re: ahem

by pushplay on 03/12/2002 00:40, refers to #15

And fools seldom differ. :)

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#17: re #16

by Shockie on 03/13/2002 12:38

how can both sayings b right? do Great minds think alike AND fools seldom differ. wouldnt that b saying that fools have great minds? geez, what the f**k does this have to do with bllody free media, lol

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#18: Re: re #16

by pushplay on 03/14/2002 00:11, refers to #17

Abscence makes the heart grow fonder. Out of sight, out of mind.

No man is an island. You can be anything if you put your mind to it.

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#19: oooooooooooh k pushplay

by Shockie on 03/15/2002 10:15

whatever

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#20: Re: Stuff

by wired on 03/15/2002 11:21, refers to #1

Ok, Guys, just in case you don\'t already know this.
you\'ll love it

http://www.planetquake.com/gg/fmp/fga.html

Models, sound textures and more, and best
of all, all gpl or similar

Go create, enhance and code,
make me happy :-)

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