Interested in a Homeworld Mod?

zircher · #1 April 14th, 2005, 02:34 AM

Of course! I just needed to test it first.

http://www.fire-on-the-suns.com/WinBig.zip

I grabbed the first ship that I saw and converted it to .X so I could do quick view in my DarkBasic Pro model viewer.

Assuming the link works... one advanced support frigate. :-)

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zircher · #2 April 14th, 2005, 02:44 AM

Yeah, I'm rather pleased with myself. Not only can people export the models from HW and render them into ship sets. You can in theory export those models and textures to SE V when it is released. [insert real big grin]

I doubt that I'll have the time to actually build the shipsets for SE IV. I'm more of a tools guy this time around. But, I hope this will convince some folks that a HW mod is very easy to achieve. The most creative part will be where it comes to units that are not part of the original game such as ground troops. It will be interesting to see what Akula and others can achieve there.

Of course, if anyone needs to pick my brain on this, go for it. I'll try to do my best to help given the time I have available.
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narf poit chez BOOM · #3 April 14th, 2005, 03:43 AM

Thanks.

Akula · #4 April 14th, 2005, 06:11 AM

What about copyright? I don't think they'll allow us to use their images in another game.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #5 April 26th, 2005, 06:25 AM

To continue my earlier rant about us being the Progenitors being the Hiigarans:

It could very well be that the colonization fleet found no other (intelligent) life at all in the HW galaxy, and that the splinter factions that destroyed the Mothership (as I said before) completely broke away from each other and became the Hiigarans, Taiidan, Vaygr, Bentusi etc.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #6 June 2nd, 2005, 05:55 AM

So a unit with a component with that ability will not work? Dammit. Going to have to rethink Sensors Distortion Probes.

Fyron · #7 May 1st, 2005, 03:23 AM

Akula said:
What about copyright? I don't think they'll allow us to use their images in another game.

zircher said:
Hmmm, don't shoot the messenger, but here's the result of my quest to get something official ruled on concerning the mod...

Thanks guys for effectively killing off (or at least severely maiming) a potentially great mod for no good reason at all...

Sivran · #8 May 1st, 2005, 04:11 AM

Mods to make one game look/act like another are common. Using images from other sources is also common. It's also non-commercial. I say, damn the lawyers and full speed ahead.

EaX · #9 May 1st, 2005, 04:24 AM

i agree.

zircher · #10 May 2nd, 2005, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Imperator Fyron said:
Thanks guys for effectively killing off (or at least severely maiming) a potentially great mod for no good reason at all...

You're welcome. Actually, I did have a very good reason to ask. I wanted to export the actual ship models from the HW series to SEV V when it was released. The technology exists, but I wanted to see what the legal waters looked like and see if a friendly agreement could be reached.

Also, everyone here is now aware of the real situation and can take appropriate precautions: either filing off the serial numbers or moving the project out of the public forum. While I might have kicked the project in the shins, I didn't kill it.

Too many people were standing around with their heads in the sand thinking that it would cover their ***. The real world doesn't operate that way.
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