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If that means that it's 0% my content, that's up to your own opinion. The question is, are those ObsidianSouls sprites now? Or mine? or both? The design is his but I created 200x the sprites, wrote the TWBT and DF text files to put it into the game. So based on those 5 sprites, I made 1000 sprites, since civs in DF have around 200+ professions and noble positions. For example I made profession sheets for the five races based on 5 sprites by Obsidian Soul. There would also be the question of when composite sprites become the base for much larger sets. Instead of drawing a sprite, I get to pick from hundreds and can do composites based on those.
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I couldn't do much like that five years ago when I started the set.Īnd when I have the choice, I prefer to use already done, free pixel art (for example asking Handsome_Dan if I can use sprites from DokuCraft Dwarven), instead of drawing them myself, because it's more efficient. True, Mike chose the style and colors and gave the steam tileset cohesion. This is an issue that can go away, but it can't be by letting it all slide. I'm certainly not implying that Meph is just some rent-seeker who is doing nothing but stealing other people's labor- I think it's pretty apparent that he's put in huge amounts of work himself- but a lack of citations is plagiarism, in any medium. Meph certainly gained a lot of visibility from this pack over the years, and in the art world, gaining popularity off of other people's work and then not crediting them appropriately is a huge no-no. I think Vet approached this with a severe lack of tact and that he definitely crossed a line, but considering that Meph is now working on an actual product, this is something worth resolving.Ĭase in point: there's at least one person in this thread who thought that Meph did the artwork in the pack. I can completely understand how that could happen and I'm very sympathetic, considering the scope and timescale of the project (I think one post said there are over 10,000 sprites- absolutely wild), but I think taking it down for now is a good move professionally and helps give Meph (and by association, the rest of the face of the Steam team) more legitimacy than if everyone just tried to sweep it under the rug. I read the relevant forum posts that I could find and it seems like Meph doesn't have all of the sources, according to their own posts. It's unprofessional and kind of shitty to take art without properly crediting the artist unless the artist says that that's okay. This way nobody will confuse the possibly problematic tiles with the tiles in the official release. Given the context of the conversation, my guess is that someone from Kitfox suggested it would be a good idea to remove the tileset. Like I said, I've had a number of sad conversations with otherwise wonderful people who just don't get this at all.
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They don't understand that people often have very specific conditions when they offer something for free and if you don't show that you are following those conditions it can leave you in a precarious position.
They think, "It was offered for free, so I can do whatever I want", or "I'm not doing any harm, so I should be able to do whatever I want".
A lot of people really don't understand the importance of licensing. Further in this thread on reddit there are some claims that Meph's had problems in the past with this. Whether he's removing it because someone complained or because someone might complain in the future is not clear. He seems to indicate in the link that he's removing the original tileset because it contains tiles that are based on freely available tiles from other sources, and that he hasn't kept track of where they all came from in order to attribute them. Kitfox Discord #modding-discussion channelīronzemurder and Oilfurnace (illustrated)
#Dwarf fortress texture pack install
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