Darth Sapiens Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 hey guys i just mad a petition to oe and bioware for some real tools and the sdk help spread the word and you can sign anonymously you can sign it here i figured with raven releasing the jk games source, this is the best time to make our voices heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthParametric Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 For starters, it has nothing to do with Obsidian. Bioware, i.e. EA, own the Odyssey engine. Obsidian only used it under licence. Source code is not an SDK. Raven made it very clear as such with the release of the JK2/3 source code. What you are asking for is something entirely different. You want EA to devote resources (i.e. spend money) to actively develop a toolset for an engine that has been defunct for nigh on a decade, suitable for public use (which they would have to do, there's nothing they can just release that would be usable as-is by the general public). You need to be realistic. It's not going happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Sapiens Posted April 9, 2013 Author Share Posted April 9, 2013 we all want the source released with the original game development tools. why obsidian? some file formats differ between Kotor 1 and Kotor 2 (dlg's and model files come to mind) so I thought obsidian must have used slightly newer tools, I am not sure whether bioware updated them for OE or OE did themselves. really they already have programs made for the game development, even if they released a few it could do wonders. the point of the petition is to make bioware and OE of what we want, its to try at least. don't get me wrong I'm not unrealistic, but I believe in trying things before deeming it impossible. why create this petition? why the heck not? if there is a chance something comes of it, even remote as you might feel, it costs nothing, there is no risk of loss, but there is a chance of gain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindikorr Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Quick question. Does EA own OE as well as Bioware, I don't think they do. If not, surely they own the rights to at least the source code for tsl. I'm guessing the Odyssey engine was built in house by Bioware, so will now be owned by EA, and of course they won't release it, and OE have no control over that, but as has been proven by the release of JK source code, there's no reason to believe OE might think about releasing it. I agree that it's too ambitious to expect an SDK and we won't get the engine from EA. If you look through the source code for JK there really isn't much you can do with it without the engine. Nevertheless, kotor has much better modding tools, so the source on its own could potentially be very useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPK Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Obisidian can't, Bioware don't Exists anymore and now is Mythic, and they'll don't give us SDK, caus EA... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Sapiens Posted April 9, 2013 Author Share Posted April 9, 2013 lol I agree ea is pretty uptight, but i also think again we should try. don't get me wrong, I am not counting on this succeeding, but no harm done by asking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logan23 Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 It would be great if they release the Source Code but I agree that they can't give out tools from development of the game- there are to many legal issues with the SDK. If you want OE to give out this code- simply have everyone go to the owners of OE- and mention what Raven did and ask if they would consider releasing the source code. Tweeter is your friend :-) Also it might be good to talk to Devs in OE to see how they feel- could build leverage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 OEI is an independent company, owned by its founders; as I recall, there's about five of them. They aren't affiliated with EA or any other larger company, as far as I know. Not that this changes anything; DarthParametric is right, this has pretty much a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindikorr Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Hi, I just tweeted Feargus Urquhart and Chris Avellone. I'll let you know if I get a response. Thought it was worth a try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logan23 Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 If we did get the Source Code- what will this mean for kotor2 modding?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Sapiens Posted April 9, 2013 Author Share Posted April 9, 2013 If we did get the Source Code- what will this mean for kotor2 modding?? well i think if we got the source, we could better understand how to do bump mapping for one, we could make more script codes, add better wide screen support, possibly add features like hdr, the list goes on and on. really even if they dont release the sdk, the only parts i really want is what ever they used for modules, their tpc converter and their model tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logan23 Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 I don't think they will release the SDK. Just source code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 They won't release either, assuming they still even have them, because neither company has the legal right to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Sapiens Posted April 10, 2013 Author Share Posted April 10, 2013 They won't release either, assuming they still even have them, because neither company has the legal right to do so. neither has the right? I thought bioware (ea) owned Odyssey. and Lucasarts isn't in the way anymore, raven did so with there stuff and that was based off of id tech 3 (owned by Id soft iirc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logan23 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I think you reach out to the people who gas the power- they might but if they don't - could be due to legal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthParametric Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 You need to stop comparing this to the JK2/3 source. A couple of things regarding that. First, both games were built on a modified version of the Quake 3 engine, which is now open source. Second, all source is going to give you is anything proprietary that they added to the engine - for the rest, you need the actual engine source/SDK. Third, the JK2/3 source has now been pulled from SourceForge, presumably because some lawyers sent Raven a "WTF?" letter. Concerning LucasArts, the fact that Disney scrapped future game development/publishing under that banner does not suddenly mean that it's a free-for-all as far as rights go. All Star Wars IP belongs to LucasFilm/LucasArts/Disney, and all previous and existing 3rd party licences to use that IP are still in effect. Nothing is any different now from what it was a month or two ago. Edit: And yeah, there's your answer from Obsidian: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindikorr Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Well that's the end of that one then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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