Comments on: Have Fun.

Have Fun.

armoured-ant — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:04:43 -0800

Hero Machine 2. Like Hero Machine Classic, but not.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:09:22 -0800

Oh, snap! I thought he was just going to make this a downloadable shareware thing, not put it online. The original Hero Machine was really fun to play around with, but obviously incomplete. There was a time when I waited, poised, for him to release 2.0, but I'd totally forgotten about it by now. Thanks armored-ant.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:15:52 -0800

I bought the full-featured 2.0, and it's absolutely fantastic. It almost makes me wish I had more need to create character portraits. It becomes even more interesting in light of Marvel's lawsuit over City of Heroes, as the Hero Machine really does make it easy to recreate a lot of trademarked characters, and I start to wonder where the line gets drawn. For example, if I were to use the Hero Machine to create a hugely muscular man wearing torn pants, would I only be in violation of trademark if his skin were green? What if it were purple? Or-- and here's the trickiest question of all-- what if I left the drawing in black and white, and never colored it?

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:17:13 -0800

[this is pretty cool]

By: ba3r

ba3r — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:19:06 -0800

It would be interesting to see the most commonly used attributes... my guess is Big-80s-hair and star-patterned pajamas are the big winners

By: 31d1

31d1 — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:26:43 -0800

faint_of_butt - thats the kind of reductio ad absurdum i (at least) need to hear more of, w/r/t intellectual property. at least right now, i get the feeling that no one really cares to answer questions like that, the questions are more along the lines of "do i have the power to get money from this? can i crush them with ease?" like, what if i had two large binary (or something) numbers, that when added, and played in winamp, yield the song "and justice for all" by metallica. am i not allowed to distribute these files? in theory any number x would have a number y so that x+y= And Justice for All, right? and theres an incredible amount of numbers i could use that would yield AJFA if combined in some way. when i copyright a work, how much of the universe is then mine?

By: FunkyHelix

FunkyHelix — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:51:00 -0800

That sucking sound is my productivity as I keep clicking buttons on this thing.

By: The White Hat

The White Hat — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:55:15 -0800

Just built my Benjamin Franklin superhero. Lightning bolts and everything.

By: Loser

Loser — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:56:38 -0800

31d1 - there's lots of people trying to answer questions like these. Check out Free Culture, by Lawerence Lessig. Chapter One is available in audio here. As for the Mavel-NC Soft shenanigans, I would imagine it has more to do with CoH's success making Marvel's MMOG aspirations moot than it does with infringing upon Marvel copyrights.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:10:29 -0800

I hereby copyright the letter sequence "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz," and all derivative works thereof. (Too much prior art?)

By: Big Fat Tycoon

Big Fat Tycoon — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:10:56 -0800

Just hitting Randomize All over and over is pretty great.

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:41:52 -0800

It had to be done.

By: GreatWesternDragon

GreatWesternDragon — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:53:55 -0800

Shweet little programme! Even though I am an artist and even though I've done plenty of character portraits for RPGs, one of the harder things to do is figure out the little things like clothing, colour combinations, etc. With this, I could play around with a generic character looking thing, get a feel for what I want and then do the similar thing with the real portrait! This could save me hours per image! I'ma buy it next week! Gotta wait til' payday!