Oh wow, OH WOW! I didn't even notice this piece of drama right here because, as most of you have noticed already, I've never been much of a forum person myself. That said, I find this completely hillarious because this is incredibly childish, not to mention he's obviously trying to take advantage of all we have advanced since I took this project.
This reaches new levels of ridiculous as he is claiming
ownership of this? Come on, if someone is to be credited for that, that person should have to be
Tom Hall himself, who is actually quite happy that I am working on this (not to mention he was eager to support the whole Indiegogo fiasco). In fact, like 99% of what Sodaholic made for this project is already out, so I don't know what does he
own about this.
Gez wrote:Sodaholic edited the [wiki=Doom: Evil Unleashed (hfc2x)]project page on the wiki[/wiki], and this was reverted. I'm not sure how to handle the situation yet. If it seems like an edit warring in the making, I'll protect the page.
And could you please revert it? I still see his name there, and as he clearly said he didn't want his name to ever be included in it again, I see no reason for him to be mentioned. I am the one still working on this, and I haven't said I will hand it over to him again.
wildweasel wrote:About the only things he can legally claim credit to are probably the computer voices and the code. The rest is so deeply rooted in the original, id Software-copyrighted assets that demanding that they be pulled is pretty much meaningless, since they can be very easily recreated from the id assets.
The computer voices are gone because we needed a lot more lines than what the Doom Bible mentions, so recording the new ones with a different voice needed the old ones to be re-recorded for consistency.
As for the code, Sodaholic hadn't scripted
a single ACS script when I received this project. I coded everything ACS myself, and it's not just a few, the main library source contains 709 lines (and the Helmet ACS source is 1718 lines-long). All he did was include faulty DECORATE code which caused thousands of errors at startup, which I got rid of. I did actually write all the DECORATE code from the ground myself.
The only thing that we're keeping are the maps (which weren't converted by him, but by Deathz0r) and the Status Bar, which I can replace or get rid of at any moment.
So I have to ask, what is he even claiming ownership of?