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Game Art/ Background images
DIR By: Grenville
Date: October 27, 2018, 11:20 am
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A lot of the game UI is built over top of still images - since
I'm not an artist its the easiest way to get things looking
decent.
I'm planning to get a few stock photos for the new version -
didnt see any reason to hide the source & figured I'd throw the
link up here for you to have a look:
HTML https://www.shutterstock.com/search/afl
Posting this for 2 reasons:
1 - to give people a chance to comment on what images they like
the best and where abouts in the game you see them fitting?
2 - To see if we have anyone with a legal background here? AFL
protect their IP really aggressively and for PC2011 I had
lawyers involved to make sure I wasnt overstepping. I'm not
sure that i buy the "worry-free licensing" claim on this site.
As i understand it players own rights to their image, as the AFL
owns rights to logos etc, and use of many of the images here
(the ones with AFL players in them) would be a problem. Although
being a not-for-profit project as PC2019 is would likely help
here.
Some of the stuff i really like here is the more generic artist
rendering/safe to use images anyway, so either way will find
some images to change to look of the game and make it feel
new/different to PC2011.
Heres some of my thoughts:
Live-action footy shots would be great if i can feel 100%
confident on the legal side - until then leaving them out.
Some of the crowd/stadium images would be nice to include
Toying with moving the intro screen to use something like this:
HTML https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/aussie-rules-football-stadium-marked-green-710562838?src=cB7W_PvSFV4cT-ITy_v1_w-1-0
Since i grew up playing footy in the country this is nostalgic.
Might be able to find a home for it in the regional league
screens spleplace:
HTML https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/afl-footy-field-pole-1152328151?src=cB7W_PvSFV4cT-ITy_v1_w-1-48
Trophy cabinet might have a home. Sadly the crows cabinet doesnt
look like this, but makes me wonder if we could split out the
image to dynamically add trophies to some cabinet. Sounds very
90s-game ish but i always enjoyed the growing treasure-room
image on Pirates way more than i should have as a kid. Getting
bloody old.
HTML https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/9-silver-cup-trophies-on-glass-1067247809?src=cB7W_PvSFV4cT-ITy_v1_w-1-82
I like this, but have no idea where I'd put it. I've been guilty
in the past for finding places in the game for graphics that
looking back on PC2011 now didnt really fit (the graphing
components i bought and got a bit carried away with)
HTML https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/icon-australian-rules-football-field-stadium-1171419325?src=cB7W_PvSFV4cT-ITy_v1_w-1-24
#Post#: 174--------------------------------------------------
Re: Game Art/ Background images
DIR By: 21C
Date: October 27, 2018, 10:52 pm
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What many of the non-licenced games in the text sim genre do is
to include generic pictures (or placeholders for player images)
upon release and then have community-supplied mods that people
can download to update the images in their game.
This was the case for Out of the Park baseball before they got
an MLB licence and is still done for games from Sports Mogul,
Front Office Football, Wolverine Sports and others.
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Re: Game Art/ Background images
DIR By: Grenville
Date: October 28, 2018, 4:35 am
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--- Quote from: 21C link ---
>
> What many of the non-licenced games in the text sim genre do
is to include generic pictures (or placeholders for player
images) upon release and then have community-supplied mods that
people can download to update the images in their game.
>
>
> This was the case for Out of the Park baseball before they got
an MLB licence and is still done for games from Sports Mogul,
Front Office Football, Wolverine Sports and others.
>
--- End Quote ---
Haha, yeah went that route with PC2011 with the editable
placeholder team names - even went so far as to separate them
into their own config file so people could share it easily
without affecting the rest of the game.
Not everyone realized that PC2011 supported player images as
well, which got released in packs by the community. That support
is all still there.
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Re: Game Art/ Background images
DIR By: netslave
Date: July 15, 2019, 6:24 am
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Hey Grenville, hope all is well.
Hopefully with finals around the corner, it can give you some
more motivation and perhaps miraculously some more free time :)
I have completed the Player Photos for season 2019 if you want
to use them for testing.
Cheers.
HTML https://www.mediafire.com/file/zh1df4jnb36hb29/2019_Images.zip/file
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