To introduce myself I’m the asset and content manager as well as lead animator as part of a larger group of rebels on a “love to make the game” project called Urban Terror HD.
If you are familiar with Urban Terror then you know for years it has been in need of an engine upgrade as it has out grown the limitations of idtech3 engine and with the release of UE4 it’s now time to make the big switch.
As part of our overall planning we want to keep our current map making community alive and move over to UT-HD by supplying them with working content and assets that they are free to use in their own map projects.
To establish fair use of such assets we will be “stealing” from Epics play book and establish a new form of licensing call “Fair Use” .
Fair Use is just that in there will be no terms and conditions as to how an asset can or can not be used as part of achieving the goals of a given project.
The back end of it all is to help create a share and share alike as to common items as to assets, models, textures and materials that if labeled as Fair Use means that your rights to use such materials is absolute.
As a first offering as a test we will be making one of our base map objects available under Fair Use which we call Mister Sentry which is an automated mini-gun designed and intended to be used as a means to protect CTF spawn areas from campers.
**** Of the Mister Sentry mini gun for Urban Terror
We will be making a base SDK available as far as the model goes, including LOD, UV mapped, as well as both the Max source file and a FBX version as well as a specification document as to how it should work as a function. The ideal would be for someone else to create the AI and others to dress it up with different kinds of materials, as well as sound effects, and also release their efforts as Fair Use, or not.
Of course at the moment the need is to see if anyone is interested in this idea before putting the time and effort that goes beyond our requirements. 