That's erm... me... The model is a custom model for the Quake 3 Arean mod TrueCombat. And it's rendered in Quake 3 :P All kidding aside though. I made this skin using poser. First I made a digital clone (actually did that a while ago) then renderd some close ups at a lens of 200mm and then used thos front/sideview scans to make the actual skin. Thing is now. Where does this stand on copyright issue? I'm asking out of pure curiosity though since this skin is for persona; use only. The defualt Mike Text I used was from Daz3D. Could I ever get in trouble if I distibuted the skin?(512/256 head mesh) Discuss! :)

If I was doing this or something similar I would make my own map, just so you dont get any crap about it. In this forum and elsewhere they go on about copyrights but objects are made like cars and boats and so on what I would like to know is: Do the people making these get permission from the companies to copy their cars, boats etc? I am not talking about the free stuff. There cant be one copyright for 3d and another for reality...

I hope this isn`t the start of a long dull pointless debate.

If in doubt, ask the creators directly. Only they can tell you. Cool image.

Well if I ever would do something like this for (free) distribution, I'd surly use my own kins, didn't gert those dev kits for naught :) I just tought it made an interesting problem. The skin itself is copyrighted to the skin auther, but I made the skin from rendered pictures, which in turn would be copyrighted by my. See where I'm going? Just more fuel for the "copyright has grey areas" debate.

With the first mention of skin I ment the Mike texture of course... haven't had my morning.. er... evening coffe yet, just woke up after a 6 hour nap, had been playing/tweaking/modding True Combat non stop since Friday night :)

The original texture is copyrighted. You can't distribute it as a texture, free or otherwise. You use it to texture a model and make a render. That render is yours and you can sell or give it away. But if you render the textured model from several angles and pull those images together into a new texture you are basically recreating a variation of the original texture, which is still copyrighted by the original creator. You could use that new texture yourself to texture another model and create renders from it. But you could not sell or give that recreated texture map as a texture map since it is still basically just a modified version of the original one, which you don't have the rights to distribute.

You could ask daz if it is okay. Explain that it is much lower resolution and so on, they might let you use it.

Attached Link: http://www.planetquake.com/q3t/content/

Well as I said, it's not for redistrebustion. This skin I make for personal use only. I don't think Daz really cares what I do with it on my own computer as long as I don't spread it :) BTW if anyone of you guys like tactical shooters definetly give True Combat a try. (see link)