Not that the fact that you're pointing out and emphasizing this is necessarily wrong, but I find it a bit funny that ESR's admins will sit aside and allow people to post demotivational posters calling black dudes niggers, and just watch as the people here berate and mock a guy who's making a plea for help with his life -- all while the admins are completely apathetic towards the matter and allow the slack-jawed carnival to persist at the expense of someone else. But once someone does something that breaks frivolous laws, simply in the name of informing people about ported Q4 maps that they helped port over from Q3, the admins can't nuke their post fast enough. Pretty sad when you think about it, huh?
not maps, just textures, q4 is dead, no cares, allow the textures, and port some old map with ease from http://lvlworld.com/ cos its easier to just have 1 set floating around to download and use some of
I fail to understand how people can be so ignorant about intellectual property rights.
Put simply: you did not create that artwork, you do not own it, it's not yours to give away. The fact that you intend the textures to be used in Quake 4 is irrelevant, they are simply jpg/tga files and could just as easily be used in any number of other 3d engines. If it was legal to do this, that's exactly what all those open source projects would do. It's not.
sissies, q4files etc have q3 sound track downloadable for q4 unmodified etc
converting some textures dont break no copyright, alot of things in the modding world do, but converting some textures dont, id can just get petty and complain
and its not as if they have been converted to work in UT, its Q4
easy to port some maps, with all packs uploaded with a no tears public download, search and replace textures/gothic_* with textures/q3textures/gothic_*
better if a non up they`re own ass modeller made q3 weapons for q4, SG and MG anyway and replace sp weapons in mp