Andor's Trail

Lady Drager wrote:I made a slight adjustment:
char_hero vNina1.PNG

mind if i grab the image you're working on?
i know Andor's Trail is open source, but your work isn't...

I don't mind, any artwork of mine used in the game gets the name Ladybug Arts added to the game's credits.

Lady Drager wrote:I don't mind, any artwork of mine used in the game gets the name Ladybug Arts added to the game's credits.

yeah, the Credits need to be updated - for sure.
as well as the Help Section!

what's there is just a rush job i did before the last update...
that said, i might have a few art requests?

there are things that need to be added,
and i'm sure we can make it easier for the noobs to grasp the game.

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[kill puppies for meat]

I'll tell you the same thing I told rijackson, I have a difficult time with people and animals (modding doesn't count) and I've only just started with graphics a few years back. I've been a traditional artist my whole life. Drawing, painting & sculpting since I was 3 y.o. It all began with a box of crayons, white walls and enough space behind the furniture for me to fit in! There I had drawn a recognizable ladybug. Hence the name Ladybug Arts and my artist logo:

No I only modded YOUR female character. I didn't do it from scratch. Also, I didn't mess up! You're NOT bugging me. You guys made a great game and I am honored to help out (seriously I hate that my spell check is British). I set it for English (United States). So why does it keep telling me my spelling is wrong for NOT using the British spelling!?! American English and British English are two different languages for crying out loud!

Lady Drager wrote:British English are two different languages for crying out loud!

#TheStruggleIsReal

Well they are... these days.

nyktos wrote:
take the images of the animals we have & tweak them too!
they are open source - put bat wings on cave snakes for all we care...

Not that simple.
Artwork is never "open source" as there's no source code. Most are released under a CC-BY-SA license, but some aren't. Some include the "ND" clause, preventing us from altering it.

I could also go on to remind people that Andor's Trail is more than "Open Source", it is "Free Software" or "Software Libre" (because it's free as in speech). And this freedom is IMHO way more important than the availability of source code. The freedom of the software is the only guarantee we can have to maintain freedom of the user.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-sou ... nt.en.html

Artwork, on the other hand, does not threaten the freedom of the user. There's no need to check if a PNG is going to snoop on you. In this respect, I would agree to include artwork in AT that is licensed as CC-BY-SA-ND-NC for example. CC0 and Public Domain are also welcome obviously.
For other cases, the explicit authorization of the artist must be obtained, for example with a special "licensing deal" (an email that says "ok, use this one as CC-BY-SA-ND for your project" is enough IMHO, but IANAL).