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

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Daniel L Speyer <dspeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> 
> It was color-shifted.  I have also looked at (though forgotten --
> therefore no copy!) the civ2 units.  The color-variation between pixels is
> the same in civ2 sub and the removed one.  The one can be turned into the
> other by careful applycation of gimp's brightness/contrast and
> hue/saturation/luminesence filters.  While I haven't studied the law, I
> suspect this is an infringement.

I suspect this too. After a much closer second look, you are absolutely right.
The black sub looks distively different though. Yet it is just the silver with
a little bit of color editing. Why does a black unit look so different?
 
> > 
> > >   silk (ouch!)

I thought the silk looked familiar. That silkworm is just the Civ 2 worm minus
the leafy background.

<snip>

> Probably because most of the graphics are new (or copied from acceptable
> sources -- I saw many hires sprites there!) and c-evo is small and
> obscure.  Of course, they may also be permitting it to mine ideas for civ4
> ;)
> 

Aloha,
RK.

The price of being the best is always... having to be the best.
{Lords and Ladies, 1992, Terry Pratchett}

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