Are assets free to use?

posted on June 9th, 2012, 12:22 pm

Hello,

I'd like to use several Fleet Op textures (weapon effects) in my FreeSpace2 mod. Is it allowed to use Fleet Ops assets in mods other than for Fleet Ops? Proper credit would be given, of course.

posted on June 9th, 2012, 12:31 pm

The modding guidelines

certain assets from fleetops are 3rd party, like textures and models.

if you want to use these you have to ask to use these specific assets in the modding forum (either start a new thread or wait for a mod to move this one).

Then wait for a dev team member to respond (dev team all have orange names).

if you don't intend to release the mod to anyone else (ie you just wanna play it yourself) then you don't need to ask for anything.

welcome to the forum.

posted on June 9th, 2012, 12:46 pm

as long as its just for a private mod (with no public release) you are free to use Fleet Operations material.

If you want to do a release, please create a more detailed request in the modding forum like Myles mentioned

posted on June 9th, 2012, 1:30 pm

Well, I don't intend to use tons of stuff, just a hand full of weapon effect textures. For the moment only wpuls_disharmonic.tga to be specific. It's for a public mod, yes, but nothing commercial of course.

posted on June 9th, 2012, 4:58 pm

Well, I don't intend to use tons of stuff, just a hand full of weapon effect textures. For the moment only wpuls_disharmonic.tga to be specific. It's for a public mod, yes, but nothing commercial of course.

As Optec said I suggest to write a detailed request even for the few things and send this as Email to the person of concern. It has nothing to do with commercial or not or that it's not wanted to use these assets. It's to avoid confusion on a broader scale.

posted on June 9th, 2012, 5:46 pm

you are allowed to use this texture, but please add credits and a link to the website to your readme. You can find details about that in the modding guidelines as mentioned earlier. If you want to use further files, please create a dedicated topic in the modding forum.