[Freeciv-Dev] Re: civ3gfx

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Jason Dorje Short wrote:

> I put up a civ3gfx tileset in
> ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/contrib/tilesets/civ3gfx/.
>
> It includes a script that automatically downloads and converts the
> Womoks tileset.  Note that this tileset is based on the original civ3
> graphics and cannot be freely redistributed!  There's probably a full
> tileset's worth of all-new graphics out there but I don't know where it
> is.  I encourage anyone in trying to put together a free tileset of
> top-notch graphics.

We should just draw something ourselves, no matter how ugly it is and just not
redistribute any art with dubious copyright status.
Probably the best way would be to use some 3D fractal landscape
generator software, with our own textures and use that as the basis for
the tileset.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa