Can we convert forza meshes to BeamNG?

I read before somewhere that you can only put self made content in the game. Is this true? I have a few textured and edited forza meshes I used for GTA IV and I might put them in BeamNG.
I lost all my scratch made cars.

 

the cars in Forza lack the detailed frame, suspension, and underbody components unlike the ones in BeamNG

 

Instead of making a new thread I guess I shall post it here.

What about GTA IV vehicles? They are pretty broken up afaik

 

You can't take content from a game you have to pay for and then distribute the content.

 

Ripping content from other games is a no-no, make your own cars from scratch instead.

 

As far as I know it is allowed to convert cars from Forza, if it wasn't legal, there wouldn't be 400 of them on every major GTA website for download.
But the car models wouldn't be of any use, because they don't have a frame and suspension, engine and so on.

 

Content-''theft'' is not allowed.

 

It seems to be one of those urban legends phased as fact. In GTA it's considered ok because they are non competing games and credit is given.

I did find this online, so technically no 3d model of a car is copyrightable.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Meshwerks,_Inc._v._Toyota_Motor_Sales_U.S.A.,_Inc.,_et_al.

 

Well that sucks a lot then, good thing I didn't waste my time doing this. I'll just keep converting to other games. Might convert one for myself though.
No idea why you guys are calling this ripping or theft. This is the first game I've seen to have trouble with this.

 

Tries to troll thread and fails.

 

There is also the fact Forza models are way too high poly and just badly made they would deform like crap like they did in RoR even on a decent chassis.

 

Most GTA forums follow the same rule to be honest, at least the ones I was on. Rockstar themselves have said they don't want cars from other games to be converted to their game, or vice versa. EA has stated the same. All this is according to the owner of the official Dutch GTA forums who has contacts within Rockstar Games.

I'm pretty sure makers of other games share the same opinion.

Besides all that, taking models from a game, then distributing them for free is exactly the same as piracy, just with fewer files. And since piracy isn't allowed, this isn't allowed either. By law.

Tries to be a big guy on the internet and... well.. I don't even know what to call this.
Maybe try making useful posts?

 

Tries to lie and fails.

 

Just delete this thread. If you can't model don't make mods.

 

I am pretty sure that is a conversion. I think.

 

I suppose if you have the talent to do it then its up to you, but keep them to yourself. I certainly wouldn't distribute them or make any references on this forum. people were banned from rigs of rods for that.

 

Converting content from other games is a rocky road indeed! And something i'm sure a small team like the beamNG guys would rather avoid like the plague than find workarounds or technicalities.