Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Where do we go from here? Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 02:43:43 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <38b54835.648851278@news.playstation.co.uk> References: <38ab5135.126831333@news.playstation.co.uk> <88ti5g$ad3@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <$N4puDAb1os4Eweh@trsoft.demon.co.uk> <88ugjf$3942@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.27.57.69 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:47:03 +0000, Tony Ross wrote: >In article <88ugjf$3942@chuka.playstation.co.uk>, George Bain > writes >>Nowhere, did SCEE state that we will provide graphics, and sound for >>Net Yaroze members. >It doesn't say that they will provide loads of code examples either but >they do. >What about asking the major software development houses for donations to >the program (Eg. texture sets, 2d tile sets, sound effects, music) or >even an agreement that we can rip off sound & graphics from published >title X? Hi Tony, I had discussed this issue with some SCEA members on the Tuesday night chat. I was suggesting to them that we should collectively put together a large collection of sounds, textures, etc. and create CDRs out of them. This way, many games can access the CD directly (you'll just have to get a copy of the CDR - by burning it yourself or having someone do it for you), and not only will it provide a nice library of items to use, it will make game load time much faster. (reading off the CD is much faster). Since you seem pretty anxious on this point, why don't you try to organize it? I'm sure if we all contribute a little, we can have a nice collection. We just need to make it a "standard library", so everyone just needs one disc, and all the files are in the same place for everyone. A good place to start? Well, there are tonnes of free textures packaged with software, and available on the Internet. Steven