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Originally Posted by Joe Siegler
I think according to the legality of the thing, I think we could do that, but I doubt we'd be interested in releasing fan work under the 3DR banner like that.
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The logical answer to the legality thing should be that you could just do it. My guess is it would be a fairly messy deal to figure out all the legal aspects. Releasing it would also mean you would probably want some kind of contract with the people who did it since you are more or less responsible for the content of it even if you don't have to ask. Wouldn't be to much fun it turns out some stuff is copyrighted material and 3DR is held responsible for that. All in all it would probably just a big mess trying to make it happen I think.
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Originally Posted by CarlosRP
Or maybe an option when you play the game...
like in the PC version
in the legal thing.. you just ask for permission to te ones of the HRP creators
but I still think that this is a good idea, the one of putting the HRP as option in the game menu, or something like that, or a place where its says "Upgrade to High Resolution Pack" things like that... understand me?
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Tracking down everyone would be quiet a bit of work. I have done this and since there are no money involved I settled with just reaching almost everyone. When doing something commercial you would really want to be sure to cover everyone. Assuming of course you would even need to. In other words you can either do it without asking or it may as well be to much work asking everyone.
If it was done by like a small and organised team it would make a lot more sense from legal and otherwise practical point of view. Kinda like how EPIC has released mods in rereleases of their UT games. The HRP is made by somthing as "fuzzy" as the Duke comunity.
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Originally Posted by Amakou
If they did, the multiplayer would have to be split into HRP and non-HRP....it wouldn't be fair to both sides otherwise.
~Amakou~
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I don't think this would be to much of a problem since it's more or less like playing a modern game at different graphical settings. Of course the polymost render mode vs the classic one do give you a little bit different view.
The HRP is no where near being complete and professionally looking enough to be officially released in that kind of way in any case. In a sense it's "just" fan art.
You would have to do quiet a bit of work to get it done to. The size of the thing as it is would go over the limit of an arcade game AFAIK. The port would have to be updated with a new renderer possibly based on the polymost engine but it would still not be just a copy and paste job.
there is a ton of graphical glitches that shows up once you start using 3d models which will have to be solved(a lot of them are sloved in EDuke32).
In other words there are a ton of reasons for 3DR not to do it. It would probably be a better idea to hire people to do one from scratch and really make it consistent and shine. Or possibly hire some of the guys who has made some of the HRP art to get running start.
This turned into a longer post then I intended. I guess I'll just refer to this thread the next time I get an email about this.