Hi, Im lukamas

[lukamas]

Hello, I am an avid animal modeller and texture artist...

Its a pleasure to be here on the 0ad forums.

 

I would be willing to create content for 0ad, But I have a question

I read about the texture license thing on certain images not usable for texturing because of copyright, Is Flickr or Wikipedia a good site for textures?

And I use blender to model my animals, so If you guys have an animal that wants to be made for 0ad, please let me know.

And I cant wait to work with you guys on this amazing project.

 

I think its worth the try to start making Content for this game.

My name is Lukamas, and I cant wait to get to know the other developers, and start working on 0ad.

 

And Make some mods.

Edited April 15, 2017 by lukamas

[Lion.Kanzen]

Welcome. The textures need be public domain or be creatives commons 3.0 by SA.

 

[lukamas]

but what websites can be used for example, Im kinda new to this.

[Lion.Kanzen]

Any with this licenses, make sure you have the rights to use them.

devisnt art have many artist in that way.

if you foun proper texture only you can model that isn't a problem. We have people that love texturize the models specially animals.

[sanderd17]

Both Flickr and Wikipedia clearly list the license of the images (every image has a different license on that site).

Normally, the license is pretty clear (it says CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, GPL, CC-0, CC-BY-NC, ...) in the license details. There are some we can use, and some we can't. In general, everything committed to the game should become CC-BY-SA, as we like to keep it simple.

• CC-0: This license doesn't put any restrictions on the file. So we can simply use it in game content that uses the CC-BY-SA license
• CC-BY: Requires attribution (the original author should be placed in the contributors file), but it can also be used in CC-BY-SA content, so it's fine to use this, but just remember the authors
• CC-BY-SA: This is the license we use for the game art. So it's fine to use files with this license, but again the original author should be attributed
• CC-BY-NC: This license limits commercial usage (NC stands for Non-Commercial). This isn't usable in the game as we don't want to limit commercial usage (f.e. ad-supported gameplay videos).
• CC-BY-ND: This license doesn't allow you to make derivations from it. So it's entirely unsuitable to base another piece of artwork on.
• GPL: This is an old art license, it's pretty similar to CC-BY-SA, but not compatible with it. There isn't a lot of art left with that license, and we just want to keep things simple (with a single license for all artwork), so files with this license shouldn't be used.

Here's some more information about the CC licenses: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

If you have doubts about a file, just put a link to it here, and we can give some advise.

[lukamas]

Ok so I was on Flickr, and how exactly do I find what license is on the image?

 

And Can we do animals for 0ad that are off the list, basically creatures we want to add or contribute.

Edited April 17, 2017 by lukamas

[Lion.Kanzen]

Yes, animal those can be represented in  the game.

With flick show the link and in some where of the photo the license is there.

[xan2622]

Can textures from https://www.textures.com (website formely known as www.cgtextures.com) be used in 0 A.D. ?

https://www.textures.com/terms-of-use.html (check the Article 2)

[Stan`]

@xanax Since we would probably use them as textures or part of textures and since our license allow these textures to be resold you can't use them to do anything. 0ad had a special derogation back in the days when it became open source but that's it.

[xan2622]

As I read these "terms and use" text, according to this sentence, I would say it's possible to use them in 0 A.D :

 

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You are permitted to:

2.1

incorporate the Photos in computer games and 3D models;

 

 

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However, you are not allowed to resell or give away our photos as 'textures', texture packs, materials, clipart or any other product that competes with our website.

It's the end of the sentence that matters here.

 

PS : I'll contact the maintainer of textures.com for more details.

 

Edited August 19, 2017 by xanax

[Stan`]

The thing is while you don't when making your mod, when putting textures under CC-BY-SA you allow people to create derivative texture packs from your textures hereby breaking the rules.