source code?

necro · Post by **necro** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 10:25 pm

is there any particular reason why you didn't make the source code for bani freely available?

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 5:31 am

because it's his, why would he want someone to copy his work?

=FF=im2good4u · Post by **=FF=im2good4u** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 7:17 am

yeah he spent so many hours and cups of coffie on it he doent want it be scewed around whit

necro · Post by **necro** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:28 am

"copy his work" ? ever heard of Open Source, GPL/BSD/LGPL etc?
he did.
he uses Linux to run bani.anime.net on, too! you know how many hours people put in Linux since it's inception in the very early 90's? thousands more manhours than your whole life consisted of.

to be short... "why".. to be open, and for people to have the ability to improve it, modify it, etc.

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:36 am

yes, but he didn't want it to be open source... it's his right to or not to. He chose not to rather than to...

necro · Post by **necro** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:43 am

yep. however, if you'd actually READ my first post it asks if there is any _specific_ reason why he chose not to make the code available.

get it?

no?

too bad.

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 9:21 am

because he doesn't want to... others have asked for it... that is the answer, you can keep going about why YOU think he should, but it's his decision if he wants to or not... why do you care so much? modding isn't that complex, make your own then opensource it

sneaky1 · Post by **sneaky1** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 8:19 am

what tools/utilities/programs are needed to make a mod anyhow?

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 8:20 am

simple mod (no visual changes)
a c++ compiler
and the source

sneaky1 · Post by **sneaky1** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 8:22 am

simple mod? can you elaborate please?

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 8:28 am

no graphics changes (new guns/uni's) just new actions or changing vars

sneaky1 · Post by **sneaky1** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 8:35 am

dont you have to use C++ or similar to even view the src code correctly to make such changes?

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 9:10 am

the source is a text file, if you know c++ you can open it in notepad or the like and edit it but you need the compiler to make it

sneaky1 · Post by **sneaky1** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 9:59 am

hehe.. i have have to use wordpad to get rid of them funky characters. Time to start reading up on them modding tuts

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=FF=im2good4u · Post by **=FF=im2good4u** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:59 pm

gotenks wrote:the source is a text file, if you know c++ you can open it in notepad or the like and edit it but you need the compiler to make it

our =FF=client side mod is made off the .menu files but is not compiled its just the open files and they work aslong as the path are correct