Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Question re DAZ morphs

SamTherapy opened this issue on Feb 19, 2003 ยท 41 posts


Ajax posted Thu, 20 February 2003 at 1:33 AM

Re the cake analogy: "That's like saying I cant sell a cake because there's copyrighted flour, or eggs or yeast in the mix." Actually it's like saying that if you made a cake with your own eggs and sugar but with some stolen flour, then you can't sell the cake because it contains stolen property, which is in fact the way the law works in most countries. "Once individual morphs are combined into one, they cant be pulled out again either" Sure they can, as long as you know how much of each morph you put into the mix, you can take it out any time. DAZ even have step by step instructions on how to do it in their FAQ. You just set your combined morph to one, then set the DAZ "ingredient" morphs that you need to remove to the negative of whatever setting you had for them when you made the combo, then you can spawn a new morph which will be completely free of the DAZ morphs. It takes a little work and patience, but that's the price you have to pay if you want to distribute characters that rely on somebody else's morphs. I agree with what Lyrra and Chanson said and therefore won't repeat their points. I think Lyrra's summary of what methods of redistribution can and can't be used is an excellent guide. William the Bloody, The mover approach is fine in theory but it has some big practical drawbacks. Firstly Mover won't accept a binary as a seed file - it needs text seed files - so using the installer as your key is out. As Jaager says, you could use one of the actual protected morph injection poses as a seed, but that approach will only work if all of the ingredient morphs you're trying to protect come from the same pack, since Mover only accepts one seed file. I'm not sure what RTEncoder can do but at Jaager points out, there's no Mac version yet. In general, the approach DAZ suggest is a good one. It doesn't rely on any third party software and just requires you to keep track of how much of each of their morphs you use and then take it out again before you distribute.


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