Female Ranger

[SaibotLieh]

Well there are only two issues I see with using these...

1) They are basically un-shader-able at this point, I'm sure this can be fixed, but as of now there is no potential for shaders on them. To me that means any part used would look out of place.

- and; this one not so much an issue as it is a question -

2) Are we allowed to use this with Civ IV? Legally? And along those same lines, if we are, couldn't somebody just upload all of the parts to the DB?

1) You are right, that's a problem with the skins. But it can be corrected to a certain extend by de-contrasting the artwork. Parts that work with transparency are another problem of course.

2) Frankly, I have no idea. Naturally, the Terms of Agreement from AO do state the following:

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Following this, we aren't allowed to use their stuff. But on the other hand we aren't making any bucks out of it. In fact it rather benefits NDOORS that we are using parts of their work because it advertises their game while not harming them at all. We don't take away any customers from them and we don't make any profit with their work. I'm not a lawyer and can't say how this particular cooperation can and will act. But seeing that there is a Star Trek mod, a Star Wars mod, a Dune mod, a Fallout mod and so on as well as lots of units from (for example) Babylon 5 and Battletech without any problems that I heard of I hope that NDOORS won't have anything against this either (Btw, tom2050 is also making some Civ3 units out of the AO models for quit some time now). But I certainly can't give any guarantees. I just would advise anybody who uses stuff from them to make absolutely clear that the rights of that stuff lies within NDOORS.

 

[mechaerik]

Yeah, I would assume they probably wouldn't care. We aren't making a profit off of them, they distribute the files for free anyways, and we aren't claiming that they're ours.

There have been plenty of people who converted files from other games too.

 

[SaibotLieh]

I've now added a mostly shadered version of the Female Ranger leaderhead to the download file. The only parts I couldn't shader are her hair and the feathers, because those work too much with transparency. She looks like this now:

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[The Capo]

BRA-ING-VO. Good work.