Going standalone

[therfiles]

I know that after the source code has been released, many modders (including me) find it attractive to release their mod as a standalone game. When your making a standalone version, don't you have to replace all the assets with new ones?

 

 

Then here is a strange situation.

Lets say you are trying to recreate a blaster rifle's effects. First you recreate the red line, then make a shader, and finally write the fx code. But what if your new assets look similar to the old ones? There is only one way to write a shader, and what if yours is basically an exact copy of the original? How could you prove that you actually wrote it and made it?

 

I guess what I'm trying to say is, how can you prove you made some common asset that looks identical to the original?

[The One and Only]

Keep source files and hope nobody asks.

[eezstreet]

Nobody's going to really care if your assets look too similar, but the point is that they need to be replaced. Can't just change one pixel on Kyle's skin either, you need to be able to prove that you made the whole thing yourself.

[afi]

In the end no one would care anyway. But it's always better to be save...

[Mandalorian]

I agree that to be truly strand alone asset has to be fully created from scratch. It is a very big project for any modder to partake in and for such a old game is It worth It to? Halo Odst; was that a standalone because it had new assets? no, it was not much more than a tweaked version with a few assets.There are more than a few examples of this in games.

 

I think to play devils advocate,

If a game visually looks and feels different and It's game play is different thus the experience,different. It is a new game. No harm in a person at least trying to make a game seem fresh but still star wars.

 

I think for a jka singleplayer mod to be standalone it would have to included at least 80% new content or replaceing It. Movie Duels was pretty close and I aim for basically that x10

[afi]

You will still get problems with Disney if you use SW-stuff (even when it's 100% created from scratch) in a standalone

[eezstreet]

Not unless you don't sell it for cash.