[Freeciv-Dev] Re: cevo 2 -- cleaned up version

["Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We did a round on this for my r-hires units collection too in #freeciv
yesterday, and found several units that must have been copied from payciv
and then altered slightly by hand. This despite asking every source if
their units were original (in addition to asking for a GPL license). Bad.
I'll upload a new version of it soon[*].

BTW, Daniel, I think maybe the destroyer in your cevo tileset is from civ2
as well. Maybe Raahul can check that one out. I don't have the originals
anymore.

Yours,
Per

[*] probably after release

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On Mon, 13 May 2002, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> --- Daniel L Speyer <dspeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have posted a cleaned up version of cevo to the ftp site.  Someone with
> > the relevant password should probably remove the old one.  I have replaced
> > the following sprites to eliminate copyright concerns:
> >   submarine
>
> I am looking at my Civ 2 graphics. The submarine unit does not look anything
> like the sub unit you eliminated. In fact your replacement has an uncanny
> resemblance ;-). The black sub in the original cevo is nowhere near similar
> to the silver sub I see in units.gif in my Civ 2 directory.
>
>
> >   silk (ouch!)
>
> The silk does look unnaturally similar.
>
> >   roads
> >   iron
> >   gold
> >   game (i.e. on tundra)
> >   oil
> > I have replaced them with non-civ2 sprites.  Note that alpine troops
> > remain -- while they are extremely similar, they are not merely
> > color-shifted, but actually redrawn.
>
> The originals were from Civ 2? I'm wondering how come Microprose has not
> cracked down on C-evo.
>
> > I have also eliminated the dependance on hires (which consisted of one
> > sprite: city.disorder) and, while I was at it, improved that sprite a bit
> > (IMO).
>
> The new tileset looks good as well.
>
> Aloha,
> RK.
>
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