[SDL] [OT] Getting free graphics/sounds

[Will Langford]

If you're looking for tiles and background kind of stuffs... find some
free-to-use textures used in different game add ons.
Doom/Heretic/Hexen WADS, quake, quake2, halflife textures, etc.

Just as a heads up, be very careful when grabbing textures from these
sources... alot of the wad/level community don't particularly care
about the sources of their textures... ie: it's common for add on
textures/levels to use graphics from another commercial game.... and
given that the level is being distributed for free, they are somewhat
'under the radar' from legal reprise.  But you should at least do a
bit of due diligence to verify that the sources of the graphics
weren't 'borrowed' from another commercial source.

There are also plenty of free 'textures' places on the net for use in
3d programs and the like...

For sprites, euhhhh good luck :).  You might be able to find some
games in the public domain and be able to rip off their sprites and do
a tiny bit of modification to them to make them your own... but...
that's boo hiss.  I'd suggest doing some basic sprites to get things
moving forward, then hang out on some #gfx like irc channels and other
places where ppl produce art... and see if someone will do art for
your game in trade for being in the credits. Starving artists are like
starving coders... if they're bad enough off, they'll do some work to
help their portfolio :)

-Will

On Nov 13, 2007 6:13 PM, Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb at gmx.de> wrote:
> IoDream schrieb:
>
> >   There are good sounds at http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php , all
> > under Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 license, which means you can
> > use them freely in your game (see the legal page
> > http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/legal.php).
>
> Thanks a lot, this sure helps me out on the sound side! Now if there
> were just something alike with graphics, I'd be amazed.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Johannes
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