Basically, someone is using the Ship Maker to make new hulls for Gratuitous Space Battles, another game. Is this alright? I'm curious because I don't know the legality of this.
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Ship Maker being used for Gratuitous Space Battles game
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Ship Maker being used for Gratuitous Space Battles game
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Actually looks amazing and if I got the game I would do this regardless of legality. I don't think its illegal because hes not using shipmaker in ways other than intended or in any way connecting the two programs. He created a ship, which I'm pretty sure is considered his creation in terms of design. Credit is given to th15 so the only questionable part is that he should give credit to the creators of the sprites used. Most people on this forum treat bsf as nothing more than a tool to create good looking ships anyway, whereas their program doesn't seem to have that ability, so there is really no competition. Actually it should only help raise the population of this board. Until a version of bsf is released that we have to pay for its kind of a mute point imo, but of course its th15's prerogative.
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Sounds perfectly legal to me, it's just a really lazy "workaround" for people who have jack all design skills for spriting or modelling (which is most of us, probably). I suppose the same could be said of BSF shipmakers who don't use piles of custom sprites though.
Note that the technique hasn't really caught on, and everyone else is doing it without using SM to my knowledge.
Note that the technique hasn't really caught on, and everyone else is doing it without using SM to my knowledge.
Overreacting much?
Its a single ship, used purely for the purpose of demonstrating a concept, and BSF has been credited. BSF can only benefit from it. There is nothing to be concerned with.
I myself would actually be happy to see the shipmaker being used in this way; im happy to see it used in any way for any purpose as long as there is no harm or ill will.
Its a single ship, used purely for the purpose of demonstrating a concept, and BSF has been credited. BSF can only benefit from it. There is nothing to be concerned with.
I myself would actually be happy to see the shipmaker being used in this way; im happy to see it used in any way for any purpose as long as there is no harm or ill will.
Speaking of GSB, has anyone considered porting the turrets over? They'd work best if used as sections with invisible guns placed on the barrels as appropriate, I think.
Probably wouldn't be too hard to do, so long as you have something that can handle .dds files. I might fiddle with it later.
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Probably wouldn't be too hard to do, so long as you have something that can handle .dds files. I might fiddle with it later.
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