S.T.A.L.K.E.R. developer cleared of texture theft

Author: Joe Martin
Published: 17th April 2007
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. developer cleared of texture theft

STALKER has been proven not-guilty of stealing textures from Half-Life 2 and Doom 3. And he doesn't even smile.

The Inquirer today reported news that STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl has had its name cleared in the eyes of the community, under suspicions of stealing textures from Half-Life 2 and Doom 3.

Bit-tech originally picked up the story a few days ago and the forums have been ablaze with speculation ever since.

Now though, news has arisen that the textures in question were instead purchased from a third party, Marlin Studios, who create all manner of textures and models for use in commercial computer games.

It seems that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. developer GSC Game World made use of these textures legally, as did Valve in the making of Half-Life 2. Sources have also confirmed that the light textures thought to have been pinched from Doom 3 are in fact just standard Impact Light Textures, thus explaining the previously suspicious filename; Imp_Light.

This comes as good news to many fans of the game, who were afraid that GSC may be sued into oblivion for the suspected theft.

If you were one of those who assumed guilt before all the evidence was heard then you may want to apologise. Our forums would be a good place to start. For those who don't know how to grovel in Ukrainian, try this: ВИБАЧТЕ. ЦЕ БУЛО НЕПОРОЗУМІННЯ. НЕ СЕРДИТЕСЯ НА МЕНЕ.
Quote wafflesomd 17th April 2007, 11:57
Hate to say I told you so, but..

I told you so :)

Way to jump to conclusions everyone, made you look smart.
Quote konsta 17th April 2007, 12:13
ВИБАЧТЕ. ЦЕ БУЛО НЕПОРОЗУМІННЯ. НЕ СЕРДИТЕСЯ НА МЕНЕ
Quote mmorgue 17th April 2007, 12:46
I'm quite happy to say I didn't pick up my pitch fork and don my hillbilly overalls and join in the lynching mob.

To be honest, knowing full well the hassles and hells they've gone thru to get STALKER out, I would have been *very* surprised to think they'd jeopardize any decent revenues by copyright infrigment.
Quote knowyourenemy 17th April 2007, 15:06
"They're poor Ukranians, of course they stole content," quoted a less-than-rational observer.

Boo yah.
Quote Solidus 17th April 2007, 19:31
Well its just a shame Stalker is a piss-poor game nevertheless.
Quote wafflesomd 17th April 2007, 20:41
Quote:
Originally Posted by Solidus
Well its just a shame Stalker is a piss-poor game nevertheless.

Yah, to you. You must play alot of GTA, or other terrible games that keep you from noticing what a good game is.

I'm still trying to figure out why ppl thought hl2 was great.
Quote r4tch3t 18th April 2007, 12:13
Ah good old standard textures, why didn't we think of that before accusations were made?

Link goes to forum, rather to this thread.
Quote automagsrock 19th April 2007, 01:10
I've yet to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and I am pleased to see this was all a big misunderstanding. As many have said GSC would have been making a huge gamble if they seriously left IP from 2 other companies in their game's final version.

That would be the dumbest thing they could've done.
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