S.T.A.L.K.E.R uses Doom3 assets

WOW WE HAVE SCOOP, SOMEONE CALL THE PRESS RIGHT NOW !!

In the beta versions of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. all the weapon sounds were ripped straight from Counter-Strike. Its been known they've tend to use material from other games, maybe they overlooked this, they figured noone would find out, or you don't work at their studios and don't know they might have had permission from ID Software to use these.

Whoopsy!

oh damn

you should never use another games assets when making one.. only sample content that comes with the engine if its licensed. cleaning up the whole stuff afterwards is a real mess

intesting indeed! I may mention this to my production friends at THQ. 1) This is a problem and I'm kinda glad I'm not officially working on Stalker marketing any more - or - 2) It's actually not what it seems and no one cares

Interesting find.

you've got to call them and ask them why they do like thiz

what the ... now i know why this old game took 5 years of development

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Most likely from a texture pack that was purchased, Valve have also done it in Half-Life 2.

hahahaha i doubt ID software would sample from texture packs let alone sell some themselves!

Valve aren't really a good example of anything to cite about.

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Valve aren't really a good example of anything to cite about.

Right, except for a significant portion of what they do. Anyway.

You'll find similarities in textures between games all the time as companies will use the same references and resources and overlap between games here and there, but rectangular-based light volumes with textures aren't exactly common outside of D3 tech. There's some rather specialty crossover of the light materials at that. Some of those are in reference to specific d3 textures if this is the case.

Oops.

Doom 3:

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STALKER:

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Slightly more saturated... it would be hard for anyone to find out if they would atleast change the names instead of just adding "lights_".

COMON Guys IMPFLASH

Have you got a link to aforementioned extract tool?

JamesDoolittle is too lazy to post this:

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russians... selling copyrighted material???

lo fucking l.

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Right, except for a significant portion of what they do. Anyway.

No shit. leileilol: eat the inside of your own ass, plz

Well, my opinion on this is that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has probarbly just used doom 3, and hamy half life 2, and maybe other games, as examples of work they would like to re-create.

And then if they did, or if they took the game's files and edited them a little bit, and it looks good, why complain about it.

Sure it's cooler and harder to make everything yourself, but why re-make something instead of using what's out there, since you want it to look like that anyway.

Ofcourse this doesn't clear up the fact that the material is not allowed to sell, but I'm pretty confident that they'll have some kind of deal going, if you're posting extracting tools and planning to let modders have a bang at your game you'd be a right idiot to leave in material that's illigal right?

Anyways, wonder what the outcome of this find will be

Well, it's best not to assume anything. The fact it was a commercial game didn't stop Rockstar leaving that sex game shit in San Andreas, and even Crytek was raided once for having illegal copies of 3D Studio Max or some crap if I recall correctly.

It might not make sense so much to make similar things twice, but how can innovation ever occur if developers just look at previous games and say "I want something like that" and just buy the content? Lots of innovation comes through experimentation and perhaps trying to recreate something else but ending up with something new and awesome. How can that happen if content is just nabbed?

Obviously it'd need to be a lot worse than some shit water/light maps to really matter, but the general notion of taking/buying content from other games is to be discouraged whenever possible in my opinion.