SoulTaker is 100% right, It is VERY frustrating to go through the Freebies section, find somethig useful that says it's okay for Commercial use, then you download it only to read some comment in the Read Me file that says, "Oh no, I'm too stupid to put this in the right category, what I meant to say was that this is NOT okay for commercial use." Just say so up front and I won't download or use it.

Okay. Yes, I'm ranting. But it is NOT too much to ask that someone properly categorize their work. Now, if the work falls into a murky category, that's a different issue. But if you don't want it used commercially, then just say so. The issue has NOTHING to do with whether there should be freebies or not (man, some of you are off on tangents). The ONLY issue is: Please label them correctly in the first place! PLEASE!

By the way, I posed my one Freebie because I thought I'd share something just to be nice. I needed some dice for an image, couldn't find what I wanted, so I made some and then shared them with others who might need them. Are they that great? No, not really, but apparently 200+ people thought they were worth looking at since I uploaded them four years ago. And yes, I allow commercial use.

Miss Nancy: "give the freebie creator a percentage of sales for any commercial use"

No problem! Let's see, my book retails for $24.95 and has 178 pages. I downloaded a small element to go into one of the 85 images appearing in the book (or should we just limit it to the 27 CGI images in the book?). Anyway, that image where the freebie prop was used takes up about 5-7% of the space in the image... but on the other hand, it's 1 out of about 30 elements used in the image - the others were paid for); or do we consider that the entire image takes up about 1/3 of the page? So, what's a fair amount? And, of course, we should base this on Net sales not Gross sales, so we should probably cut that by 60%.

Please, let me know what you think a fair percentage is for including a freebie spitoon in the back of a bar scene in a Western gaming book.

Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: free stuff,non-commercial only.just bloody well say so up front.