# Asset packs and attribution

The packs themselves are **not in git** (see
[`assetpacks/README.md`](../assetpacks/README.md)), which means their bundled
licence files are not either. This file is the record that survives. Keep it
current when a pack is added or removed.

## Why nothing is imported yet

`assetpacks/` carries a `.gdignore`, so Godot skips it entirely. Nothing there
can be referenced from a scene or script until it is copied into
`res://assets/` in game-ready form. That is deliberate: the tree is 3.9 GB, and
`tools/check.sh` runs `--import`, which would otherwise walk all of it on every
run.

## Packs

| Pack | Size | Intended use | Licence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 0x72 Dungeon Tileset II v1.7 | 1.6 MB | Dungeon tiles — maps to the `MapGrid.Kind` tiles the generator already emits | **Unrecorded.** Bundled README is technical, not legal. Widely distributed as CC0 by Robert Norenberg (0x72), but confirm at the source before shipping. |
| Effect and FX Pixel All Free | 29 MB | Hit flashes, muzzle flashes, death effects | **Unrecorded** — no licence file in the pack. |
| Helton Yan's Pixel Combat | 3.9 GB | Combat SFX | **Unrecorded** — no licence file in the pack. |
| New All Fire Bullet Pixel 16x16 | 360 KB | Bullet sprites, to replace the generated dot in `bullet_renderer.gd` | **Unrecorded** — no licence file in the pack. |
| `considering_dont_use_yet/` — RF Catacombs v1.0 | part of 1.6 MB | Undecided | **Public domain**, per bundled `public-license.txt`. "Free to use, personal or commercial. Credit not required but appreciated. You can edit, but not resell the asset pack." Artwork by Szadi art. |
| `considering_dont_use_yet/` — Tiny RPG Character Pack 02, neo_zero v1.0 / 3.0 demo | part of 1.6 MB | Undecided | **Unrecorded.** |

### Action needed before shipping anything

Four of the six packs arrived with no licence text at all. Redistribution terms
for pixel-art and audio packs vary a lot — some free packs forbid commercial
use, some require credit, and "free demo" versions (two of the undecided packs
are demos) are often more restricted than the paid ones.

Record the source URL and terms for each **Unrecorded** row above before any of
it goes into a build. The `considering_dont_use_yet/` packs are the user's own
"not chosen yet" marker; leave them there until that changes.

## Converting audio before use

Helton Yan's pack is 24-bit / 96 kHz stereo — studio masters, averaging ~2 MB
per file and 5 MB at the largest. That is roughly a hundred times what a game
needs for a gunshot.

Downsample to 16-bit / 44.1 kHz mono before copying anything into
`res://assets/`. Godot imports `.wav` losslessly and keeps it in memory
uncompressed for low-latency playback, so the source format is what you pay for
in RAM and in export size.

## Where converted assets go

`res://assets/`, which is committed and imported. See
[`assets/README.md`](../assets/README.md). Art is Stage 2 in
[ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md); everything currently on screen is drawn from
primitives plus one runtime-generated dot texture.