Forum: Carrara


Subject: bonus textures and copyright question?

pmoores opened this issue on Feb 06, 2002 ยท 2 posts


ewinemiller posted Wed, 06 February 2002 at 1:20 PM

pmoores, I think you can use the textures in any way you want in your artwork, but are probably restricted from redistributing them in any way. However, if the target market for your models is other Carrara users who have access to the same bonus textures, you could certainly say something about your customer having to install the bonus textures before your model will render correctly. As for Anything Grooves, you could certainly build shaders for Anything Grooves or set up Carrara files and sell them as models. MBGroove is such a product, it provides shaders and textures built to take advantage of Anything Grooves. Of course your customer would also have to have Anything Grooves too for it to work. Optionally, if you didn't want to require Anything Grooves, you could build stuff with Anything Grooves, export an OBJ file, and sell the OBJ file as your model. Of course I feel that would be a bad idea, because AGr will generate some really large OBJ files (and it doesn't help me sell any more Anything Grooves :) ). Good Luck, Eric Winemiller Digital Carvers Guild Freeware and commercial 3D extensions http://digitalcarversguild.com

Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Carrara and LightWave plug-ins