Protecting my Rpg Gui/Graphic

[Soxittome]

Hello everyone,

Going forth I was wondering if we could protect our graphics with a .whatever extention. If it being .dat or being any other file extentions. I know anyone can rip them but making it harder to rip. What should I use?

Thanks for all replies and help.

[MrValentine]

Are you under obligation to do this?

[Martenfur]

You’re wasting your time, my boy.

[KakCAT]

There was a similar discussion a few weeks ago here:

How to Protect Your Source Code and Game Assets?

Texture assets can’t be protected as far as I know in an easy way, there are programs that allow you to extract images from the graphic card itself so modders do that all the time. So you could make it very hard to get completely but at the same time you can spend the same time to make your game better. But nothing is 100% secure, nothing, the only question is how long can you delay it.

[Soxittome]

Thanks for the help.

Well yes and no to the questions. Right now I just have a game name and concept of how I want my game. I can’t say I have full rights to my graphics as tons use it or if I rip a similar char then change the head, eyes and make my own armors. I will still need to work on height of char and armors to make it fully mine. So I can feel better on the graphics front. Mainly what I can say is, I have ideas for some functions and partly Gui graphics. The only thing is maybe the code is what I should protect going forward but even most code could be someone elses even if I coded it. Everything else is a want to protect so people can’t rip it easy. The whole game is a project or dream I want and I dont think its going to get big or atleast don’t think I’ll ever be big. I just like making and playing around with games and enjoy doing my own thing.