Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Tutorial: Watermarking your Morph Targets to catch morph thieves.

PheonixRising opened this issue on Dec 22, 2003 ยท 52 posts


Phantast posted Mon, 22 December 2003 at 5:28 AM

Anton writes: "FOr years I have watched it go on. People taking this persons Vicki2 morphs and filtering them into the Teen. That person taking that person's Mil Girl face and putting it on Vicki and selling it." I understand this point of view entirely, particularly when it comes to selling someone else's work. But it also seems to me that in the early days of P4, a lot of progress was made in terms of moving the community forward by sharing morphs and propagating them from character to character. Technically Anton is right that a morph is its creator's work and copyright, but in another way it is just an extension of the mechanics of Poser. There's no Poser dial for "pout", but once someone makes a pout morph available, the ability of Poser is enhanced. A morph target itself is not a thing of beauty like a picture, or even a texture or a full mesh item. Is it really worth while going to the extent of watermarking it - and presumably, subsequently examining every character that comes out in microscopic detail to check whether YOUR watermark is hidden there? It's a shame if we have to be so defensive about absolutely everything.