Importing Thousand Parsec's repository of SciFi artwork?

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 08:07

Hey guys,

Over the 11 years that the Thousand Parsec project has been around it's collected quite a bit of artwork, all under free licenses.

I was wondering what the best way to import the complete repository into OpenGameArt? It's about 5gig in total. You can preview it at http://svn.thousandparsec.net/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/media/

Tim

joined 14 years 8 months ago

Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 05:11

I'd select and import related art in packs.

Eg. icon packs, concepts of a certain kind and so on - each a submitted pack.

Then you could create a new art collection for all your art packs.

Edit: Oh, and it would be best to make a collage-preview for each pack.

mithro

joined 13 years 1 month ago

Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 07:04

I don't have time to do it by hand. There are a good couple of hundred graphics which need uploading.

joined 14 years 8 months ago

Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 07:21

Yes, it's probably a little work but you can stuff graphics for a pack into a directory then for example use the following commandline to make a collage preview:

montage *.png -geometry +0+0 -background grey0 preview.jpg

Then zip the directory for uploading. That'll work for 2d artwork packs.

For 3d artwork you would still need to shoot an image beforehand - I don't know if there are tools for popular 3d formats that could automate that.

Maybe some OGA official could give some general advise here..?