Hey guys,
I would like to clear up a issue that has been eating away at me for a few months. Most of what TJR suggested was untrue, but there is a element of truth in it aswell. It happened as a result of a major screw up caused by me. Before i start, i would like to thank a member of my team Aled James for helping me put this mistake right.
(Well, here goes....)
As a lot of you know. i like to spend my time making my levels look as good as possible, and getting every detail right, Well, bebore i started the abandoned caves level, i spend a whole day attempting to make a realistic looking cave texture. Unfortunately, i couldn't get the bump map on the layers to work properly, and i got really fustrated. Then, i saw a cave texture on my desktop that i revcently extracted for a Far Cry mod. I then placed the cave texture of top of the other textures that i had made, and then tweaked the satuation etc. I then found out that the cave texture coupled with some other textures i had made gave a relaistic 'cave look'. I thought "great, i have finaly achived a good looking texture, and it's heavely modyfied with my own work, so it
should be fine, or so i thought. I had also created a custom mesh for the texture, and everything was looking awsome, i thought i was on top of the world!! A few weeks after, I went to a meeting wit the other members of my team. I told them about the cave texture that i had come up with. To my horror, one of my team members informed me that even Heavily modified textures are in breach of copyright if you use a layer from another texture that has not been licensed to you. His words were "..You could cover it in pink and yellow spots with layers that you had made, along with a custom mesh, but it's stil not authorized if you use part of another texture that is not licensed". After hearing this, I rushed home and removed the texture that i had placed within the game (the cave texture). But, i had already released the 0.85 demo by the time i found this out, aswell as posted shots on the thread, and i couldn't really go back and take everyone down without looking strange. I was pretty was scared senseless of what i had done due to my screw up. I didn't get much sleep for a few nights after the meeting. I then desided to make a brand new texture from scratch, and i eventually achived a cave type look using various photographs and layers i had made. I then spent the next few days going over the level design i had done, using the new texture i had made. And...thats it. It was always in the back of my mind, that my mistake might come back to haunt me, i just didn't know how to tell anyone without looking suspicious and stupid. I would like to make it clear before I end my post that this was the
ONLY texture i made this mistake on, and im lucky that i have teammates kind enough to point out my mistakes. I will still continue work on DS as noraml, i just ask you as individuals and as a community to forgive me for what happened.
Thankyou all
Creator of Zombies
