spinner opened this issue on Apr 24, 2005 ยท 17 posts
hauksdottir posted Mon, 25 April 2005 at 4:53 AM
As cooler says, it is bad manners to rip off a tutorial and sell it as original work. It is deceitful, too. I remember a mansion-type entry-room with a staircase where the seller had built it from a tutorial, poserized it, and a buddy textured it... he sold it without even giving his buddy name-credit. :( Not a merchant that I'll buy from. Reputation has to count for something. If someone took material from a tutorial and modified it a lot and then sold the product, with credit for the underlying tut, that should be ok. That is similar to saying that a merchant's resource kit was used for the eyes and teeth... the buyer knows how much original material is in the package. As an example... Dr Geep has a tutorial on building a house. Cherokee69 has made a 3-bay antique car garage by following the steps. Both structures have walls, floor, roof and both were built from the ground up. However, someone else following Dr Geep's tuts would not be able to recreate that garage without Cherokee's files and measurements... too much original work has gone into it. Cherokee is recreating the buildings on his grandfather's farm and will probably never sell, but if he did, I don't see a problem. OTOH, if Snidely Snippet took the tutorial for the pergola, painted it rose-bud-pink, and sold it as an original Temple to Rosamunda... many of us would be rolling our eyes at his, yes, tackiness. Carolly