For example, i'm now working on the left door : In red you can see the original mesh. In white is mine. I create a plane or a box and i use the snap tool to apply the new vertices on the olders.
On some 3D model sites, the terms/conditions state that even using the 3D model as a reference for creating your own is illegal/infringement. I would check their terms and see what is allowed, just to be safe...
If it doesnt actually say definitively yes or no for whether you can use something or not, under normal copyright law you have to assume no.
This is going to severely limit our selection, better to create a car from scratch though because it's more practice and soon we'll all be speed modeling! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
OMG!!!!!! this is what ive been waiting for on here! ive wanted a tractor trailer for sooooo long. keep this up pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
It says personal use only license. And when I click on terms and conditions nothing pops up. So you sir a most likely correct, he may not be able to do this.
Do you mean distribute his own model, or the original one used for reference? As I mentioned in an earlier post, using someone else's model for reference in this manner is still seen, in many places, as the same as using the original model. The essence of 3D modeling is all about putting points at the correct places in 3D-space to create an object. If you're just snapping vertices to points provided by someone else, you're not really doing the modeling yourself. Sure, you're doing the mechanics of modeling, but someone else is providing you with the points in 3D space.....
Absolutely. This is what i do. I have not enough time and docs to create my own model so, as i sayed, i use this to re-create a low poly version. I do this for the fun after all
This is what I do also, I know how to model a car but it takes so long, this is a shortcut, the base parts are already provided so why not? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Not sure how to take the comments you guys are making... You don't want to take the time to write a symphony, so you take a Mozart symphony, remove a few fill notes here and there, and then call it your own?? Seriously... You don't see the issue with what you're doing? If you do it all for your own enjoyment, and don't release anything to the public, then have at it. If this gets released, then I'm curious to see how the devs weigh in on this topic. If they simply turn their head and look the other way, then I'm sure there are plenty of models out there just ripe to be plucked and put into BeamNG. This could get interesting folks.... - - - Updated - - - btw - Here's the blurb I found on that site. Interesting.... All the models are uploaded by users, thus thefree3dmodels.com is not responsable for their content. For any copyright infringements (if you are the copyright holder) please contact us. Furthermore the models are not hosted on thefree3dmodels servers nor ucoz's. This files are licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. In short: you are free to distribute and modify the file as long as you attribute it's author(s).
Even if that is the case, I still think it's unfair to us modellers. I'm trying my hardest to learn to model. It makes me feel me trying to learn is almost pointless, seeing you can just get someone else's model and say "I'm doing a low poly version". I guess he likes taking shortcuts in life. Which I don't thinks the way to go.
I agree with with what your saying. I two have been learning to model, and I'm starting feel the same way as you are. I also think the same thing to a degree is happening with levels. Some people are simply taking race tracks from games like rfactor and putting them in the game, they are great and fun tracks that I and others really enjoy. But for those who spend many hours making levels by hand and model all the assets form scratch, having people just basically do a copy and paste of a level from another game can be a bit discouraging. Just my 2 cents worth. Anyways I'm looking foreword to seeing this get finished, even if it is a bit of a shortcut.
