Interested in a Homeworld Mod?

Strategia_In_Ultima · #1 April 14th, 2005, 08:16 AM

I saw a shipset once with ships that looked very Homeworldish..... It's on the Gold CD, I forgot its name, but it is a Gas Giant floater race of nautilus-like cephlapods. The race image is a nautilus with an eye of red and yellow. I believe it's an actual Homeworld Taiidan shipset, since I've seen very similar pictures on the Homeworld Shipyards site Zircher linked to. (Please note: I've visited this page last about two days ago, so I missed that at first.....)

Edit: Seen more ships and yup, the race I meant is CERTAINLY a Homeworld 1 race.

zircher · #2 April 14th, 2005, 09:14 AM

Akula, the copyrights are in still in place. This would be a fan mod and for personal use only. So, it would never see the inside of a CD, it should never be sold for profit, and it wouldn't hurt to say that you should be an owner/licensee of Homeworld as well.

I'm pretty sure everyone who is helping on this knows that we're not making anything official for Relic or any of its parent companies.
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Akula · #3 April 14th, 2005, 09:31 AM

I know it's not taking anything away from Relic, but they might see it different, the only reason that I say it is to avoid any possible problems with Relic, perhaps asking for permission

zircher · #4 April 14th, 2005, 03:19 PM

Technically, based on the license you have to agree to in order to install Homeworld, you already have permission for personal use. Distribution is another animal. But, I would not worry unless they came down with a cease and desist order.

Paramount has not jumped down Atrocities' neck for his ship sets and they're much more agressive than Relic. For that matter, Relic even gives away the source code for Homeworld. So, I don't think there is any need for concern as long as the project stays at the fandom level and we do nothing to defame the Homeworld name.
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Strategia_In_Ultima · #5 May 2nd, 2005, 11:51 AM

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Strategia_In_Ultima said:
I saw a shipset once with ships that looked very Homeworldish..... It's on the Gold CD, I forgot its name, but it is a Gas Giant floater race of nautilus-like cephlapods. The race image is a nautilus with an eye of red and yellow. I believe it's an actual Homeworld Taiidan shipset, since I've seen very similar pictures on the Homeworld Shipyards site Zircher linked to. (Please note: I've visited this page last about two days ago, so I missed that at first.....)

Edit: Seen more ships and yup, the race I meant is CERTAINLY a Homeworld 1 race.

Taiidan and Kushan. It's the Eridani shipset, file attached.