Sauerbasic: Minitrooper Edition
What:
A Cube 2 mod which contains as close to no content as possible, without sacrificing any engine features (hopefully). What content remains should all be CC-BY-SA or public doman.
Why:
The purpose is to provide a starting point for other mods. This will save hopeful game developers time, effort, and possible litigation by eliminating the need to hunt down all the contributors, instead allowing them to start subbing in content directly.
Who:
Sauerbasic is being organized by Tentus, with a growing list of contributors. Cube 2: Sauerbraten is made by Aardappel, eihrul, and a host of others that you can find on sauerbraten.org/
How:
Directly deleting whatever content possible from the Trooper Edition, and then going to the community for replacement assets for what cannot be deleted.
How (Much Longer till it's done):
Ehh. My time is irregular, and I can't foresee what hitches we'll run into: it's been nearly half a decade since I did this for myself with Cube 1. I'll try to update this section with a percentage of how much content is licensed which way, so you can draw your own conclusions.
Please see this thread for more details.
What We Need:
- Advice- Know something we need to know? Email me or post on the forum, please!
- Coding- I need someone who can volunteer a few minutes at random intervals to help iron out bugs that crop up (ie, Mr Fixit is hardcoded into the bots).
- Hudguns- The current ones need to be replaced with filler guns. This applies to the vweps as well.
- Particles- I'd like to get fully public domain particles so that modders don't have to worry about it. Little guys like this slip through the cracks pretty easily.
- Sounds- I need a complete set of public domain sound effects to replace the ones in place, if I'm understanding that readmes correctly (I am no lawyer).
- Music- I'd like to put a very, very small ogg file or two in the place of Fanatic's music (emphasis on small).
- Playermodel(s)- Gear has released Ironsnout as CC-BY-NC, but if we can procure a model that is CC-BY-SA I'd be a lot happier. Not that Gear's decision doesn't make me happy.
- A Logo- No good project is without a logo. If you have an idea, please send it my way! (Remember, basic is the theme.)
What's Been (Mostly) Done:
- Menus and icons: most images have already been completed, and any that I have missed it'd be easier to tell me and have me do it.
- Font- Shiny new font provided by Kripken.
- Mr Fixit- One of the playermodels had to go: I chose him because he took up more room.
- Maps- All the maps have been pulled in favor of a single filler map that I use for testing.
- Models- Most of the mapmodels are gone, through a few of DCP's are still around because I'm not sure if pulling them will inadvertently break anything.
Download:
Currently only offered through SVN, which you can get via this command:
svn checkout http://sauerbasic.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ sauerbasic-read-only
Should only take up about 93 megs of disk space, including the SVN stuff.