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In Chernobyl, the eruption takes place for a second time. The explosion causes a high radiation in the region around Chernobyl and changes most of the survivors into monsters. To prevent their spreading, the stalker takes action. Equipped with ...

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. devs didn't copy HL2/D³ assets

Posted on Tuesday, 17 April 2007 by Ryuken, source: TheInquirer

Some time ago reports came up about certain assets in the post-apocalyptic shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl which were presumably "stolen" from other high-profile FPS's like Half-Life 2 and Doom 3.

According to TheInquirer it turns out that the developers (GSC) didn't copy the assets from these games but legally took them from a texture pack of Marlin Studios, which provides the same services for Valve (HL2). The so-called Doom 3 assets were also not specifically taken from that game apparently:

Valve has confirmed that it picked up some textures from Marlin for HL2, and separate sources have discovered that the IMP_Light texture that it was thought could have been pilfered from Doom 3 was, in fact, just a standard Impact Light texture, rather than referring to the Doom 3 monster.

So GSC and THQ aren't thieves at all, but just payed for external assets, as did Valve.

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daffy

so they are both equally not creative :D

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Posted on 13:15, April 17th 2007

iamposthuman

so they are both equally not creative :D

It has to do with time and available resources, not creativity. It's not a good idea to have your most creative artists working on simple texturing when they can be working on more spectacular elements of a game.

Outsourcing is used extensively in the game industry. It's all part of what keeps the price below $100 a copy.

[quote]so they are both equally not creative :D[/quote] It has to do with time and available resources, not creativity. It's not a good idea to have your most creative artists working on simple texturing when they can be working on more spectacular elements of a game. Outsourcing is used extensively in the game industry. It's all part of what keeps the price below $100 a copy.

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Posted on 17:58, April 17th 2007