There's been some unkind things said about STALKER in the past few weeks, some justified, some (like accusations that the STALKER team had "stolen" art assets from HL2 and Doom 3) maybe less so.

Turns out that the alleged "stolen" assets were in fact taken from a commerically-available texture pack from Marlin Studios. In particular, the "IMP_Light texture" file that had Doom 3 fans in such a hissy is in fact a simple old "Impact Light texture", not a randomly-generating hellspawn.

GSC GameWorld, you're free to go. Luke Plunkett

STALKER not nicking art after all [The Inquirer]

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