kalon opened this issue on Jun 28, 2007 · 104 posts
kalon posted Sun, 01 July 2007 at 3:29 PM
I stopped getting ebots on this thread...
Quote - Oh I see what you are getting at Kalon.
They aren't taking the actual .obj mesh like you find in the geometries folders.... and then rendering it and pasting it onto something else.
They're just cutting the final rendered mesh out of something then pasting it onto something else.
Like taking the alien in my gallery, and then cutting it out from the background and pasting it onto something else. Then redistributing it.
Right?
@ Lord_Syphex
Frankly, I really don't know how they're doing it. Some of the items do look like they were cut from photographs or completed images, some may be actual renders (of a mesh they had in their possession). The speed and sheer volume of their offerings might indicate the former.
@ Acadia
Quote - I believe he's talking about people making "tubes" (backgroundless images) out of ready made props. Basically opening Poser or Daz}|Studio, loading up a prop of a tree or a rock or a chair etc, and then redering it and saving it as a .png with a transparent alpha channel so that the image can be post worked into any image.
He's saying that allowing people to upload such items here is taking away sales from merchants selling those particular items. Basically why would someone buy the mesh when they can get their hands on a rendered image and then just work it into their image in post work. Essentially why spend $5.00 on a lounge chair when you can get a picture of the same one that you can use in your post work, for free.
Yes, but they've gone one better, they place the .png on a plane prop, then categorize it as a poser ready prop. The unsuspecting user could believe they're downloading a mesh of the tree, rock whatever, when really all they're downloading is a png pasted to a square.-- Yeah, these billboards are only really good for distance shots.
If I need a tree to put in the background of my render and I'm debating buying Joe Bob's Fantastic Oak Tree -- price $5.00 and then I happen to visit free stuff and see Joe Bob's Fantasic Oak Tree -- price free.... ?
Oh, and I'm a she