Email from Chogon: Cavern Textures....

[Jojon]

Slightly off tangent, I've been wondering whether the far cavern scenery is baked from a whole-cavern scene (and as such geographically correct), or handmade approximations for every view. :7

Seeing as we are (AFAIR) expected to keep any known landmarks off our new environments, maybe we might come up with a nice secluded bay of the cavern, that we could share for our new districts...? :)

[andylegate]

It's a NON ISSUE, due to the fact you have to apply for a FCAL prior to making you Age public....PERIOD.

That means Cyan still has to approve it. If you indicate you are going to use textures from Ahnonay, and they deny it on that, then it's denied.

To get your Age on MORE it will ALSO still have to approved by Cyan. Again, if they have an issue with the textures you used, they will tell you that they have an issue.

And you are STILL side stepping what I pointed out: The "Cavern" textures are a mixture of textures from MANY different Ages.

They did not say: "Sure you can use Rock600#0.hsm, but only that one" they DID say CAVERN TEXTURES which also include textures from all the Ages I listed above, and then some.

In any case, anyone with concerns on this, by all means email Cyan again. You'll have to anyway for a FCAL if you plan on making your Age or Art work public.

[Whilyam]

Perfect example of expanding one subset to include the superset.

Original question was about cavern textures.

Interim response was about cavern textures.

Chogon uses 'the textures' and some assume that means all when the discussion was about the cavern textures.

If a group of people was talking about the NY city transit system and one person says 'the city' instead of New York , should the rest of the group assume he's talking about NY city or every city???

"Interim response?" My concept had nothing to do with the cavern.

Also, if any Cyan assets are used in building this age, we do stipulate that these assets can only be used with the plasma engine for fan create ages (i.e. MORE, ULM, etc.).

Enough of this nitpicking. My FCAL says I may use Cyan assets as long as they are used in the plasma engine. This likely means that future requests for texture use, etc. will be granted provided the concepts meet the other requirements.