FreeArtSearch

about

• http://freeartsearch.schattenkind.net

the main aim is to bring artists and developers closer together and encourage contact and dialog

• a good search for existing free art
  • focused on searching/linking rather than hosting
    • index stuff from existing content repositories, project svn/cvs repositories and forums
  • possible to manually add single/multiple links to media data
  • preview images / thumbnails of textures,models,etc
  • tagging
  • licensing infos
  • technical infos (texture resolution, mesh poly count, mesh anims...)
  • contact info to reach the authors... (e.g. username + link to project forums or similar if no public email)

• a database for projects and people
  • list/search artists and interests (concept drawing, model, anim, texture, 2d-art, texture, sound, music..)
  • list/search developers and interests (programming languages, experience with frameworks,)
  • list/search for projects using free art
  • cross referencing / associations
    • which people are involved in which project
    • assets used in multiple projects (textures, models, sound, music,...)

organization

• people possibly interested in participating :
  • LeChuck from unixgamedev.org
  • ghoulsblade
  • hagish (if we use phpcake?)
  • more to come hopefully =)

• forum-thread by LeChuck in unixgamedev http://board.unixgamedev.org/index.php?topic=16.0
• forum-thread by ghoulsblade in freegamer http://freegamer.schattenkind.net/index.php?t=msg&th=310 , (the original intention was a bit different, but the underlying idea to bring artists and devs closer together was the same)
• http://blog.unixgamedev.org/2007/10/new-project-search-engine-for-free.html (blogpost by LeChuck on unixgamedev.org)

database design

at the moment this is just a sketch not a design

digraph G {

person;
media;
project;
repository;

repository -> project [label="belongs to"];
media -> repository [label="contained in"];
media -> project [label="contained in"];

person -> repository [label="commit name"];
person -> media [label="can upload"];

}

technology ideas worth investigating

• we'll probably use http://www.cakephp.org/ rapid development webframework similar to ruby-on-rails
• svn list : search for (textures, models, audio, ...) in opensource project repositories svn/cvs
• blender batch mode / importers : automatically generate mesh previews

existing websites to consider

• http://games.kde.org/people.php
• http://www.ohloh.net
• social bookmarking, social networking

free content repositories

• http://freegamearts.tuxfamily.org/
• http://virtualworlds.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page virtualworlds wiki
• http://www.lowpolycoop.com/forum lowpoly coop
• http://worldforge.org/ worldforge
• see also Links

projects and forum threads with free art

• http://freegamer.schattenkind.net/index.php?t=msg&th=114 (fife demo : cc-by-sa 3.0)
• http://freegamer.schattenkind.net/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=16 jc RPG (animal models, liberal art licenses)
• http://freegamer.schattenkind.net/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=15 fortress (2d iso castles and soldiers, liberal art licenses)
• http://freegamer.schattenkind.net/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=23 sfz art, spacegame with interior models under free licenses
• http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ spacegame, most models,textures and audio under GPL
• http://openarena.ws/ openarena quake3 with art under free license
• http://www.freeorion.org/ space strategy game with lots of content under free licenses (e.g. planetmaps)
• http://www.sauerbraten.org/ only partially free if at all...
• http://www.wesnoth.org/ 2d art, free
• http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/ (partially?)
• http://www.promode.org/?p=537 (quake:CPMA planning to make creative-commons art)
• http://radakan.org/ : cc-by-sa http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=297
• http://ebonrai.com/gplart gpl'dart repo of stuff from kaelis (license info embedded in .blend notes)

notes

• BlenderNotes for embedding license-notes and similar in a .blend file