Hehe - no worries... let's boil it down to a simple thing:

Bad option: If you want to create and sell a character that you built from just dial spins, go for it - but don't complain too loud if someone rips it off, because the Rendo PTB themselves will nicely tell you there's not much you can do about it (as evidenced by the linked discussion I pointed to earlier in this thread).

Better option: If you create a big fat "spawn morph" dial out of it, or create a MOR file (not too many people do that nowadays... pity), then you stand a better chance of having your item protected.

Best option: Use magnets (or a modeling program) and create something unique. Then create morphs from that.

Packaging the critter is easy: get (or create) a blank .cr2 file for the figure you morphed. Add your specific morphs to it. Sell that.

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Quote - That's where a lot of probems occur I think.. new "get rich quick" people see what COULD be done, and gfo ahead and try it, and then end up getting buried in the process.

Sure - but we're not everyone's moral babysitter. The truth will out eventually, and from what I've seen of this wee world we inhabit, very few discovered charlatans get out alive, let alone get the chance to rehabilitate their reps. Bamboozle at your peril. :)

Quote - yeah you CAN play devil's advocate, but when new peopel are trying to learn the proper way to do things, it's a bad idea, IMHO.

I kinda don't want to water things down for the merchant types... selling something should be done by someone who actually understands what they're getting into, eyes open. I mean this on both technical and business levels. If it scares 'em, I'm sorry, but its better to know about it now than to find out about it the hard way.

Users? Sure - let's make things as easy and clear as possible for folks to use the proggie and get cozy with it... no problem.

Merchants (or aspiring merchants)? Sorry, but usually someone wanting money for a product is supposed to be, you know, a pro. Someone who knows what they're doing. Someone who can offer something unique for a price.

It's a double standard, yeah... but for some pretty basic reasons, IMHO.

/P