Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!trsoft.demon.co.uk!ARoss From: Tony Ross Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Where do we go from here? Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:01:19 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <38ab5135.126831333@news.playstation.co.uk> <88ti5g$ad3@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <$N4puDAb1os4Eweh@trsoft.demon.co.uk> <88ugjf$3942@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <38b54835.648851278@news.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: trsoft.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike (32) Version 4.01 In article <38b54835.648851278@news.playstation.co.uk>, Steven Osman writes >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). This may be an ideal opportunity to contribute to a new boot CD containing everything we need. Can we use a CDR once the Yaroze has booted? >Since you seem pretty anxious on this point, why don't you try to >organize it? I would be happy to take the contributions and compile them into a disk. >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. Agreed! >A good place to start? Well, there are tonnes of free textures >packaged with software, and available on the Internet. Send them to me (or give me the URL) I can eventually burn a CDR for each interested member. Make sure that they are free of copyright problems! Thanks Steven for the input. Lets get going then. -- Tony Ross