Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: The Amy figure is Posette. Don't be fooled.

PheonixRising opened this issue on Apr 25, 2002 ยท 79 posts


Jim Burton posted Fri, 26 April 2002 at 7:41 AM

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Very intresting development. Before I go any farther, let me say DAZ contacted me about Supermodel Lori (SML), who they felt was a derivative figure, and the end result was that Objaction mover and Vickie are now required to extract her. Here is how SML was made: She is 100% Jim Burton original mesh, she was designed as a low-poly figure, incidently.. Her body was fitted to Supermodel Vickies (SMV), so she could wear the same clothing. Her toes were shrunk wrapped to SMV's mesh. They are just bumps in a solid, sort of like a mitten. She uses SMV's CR2, which is more-or less Vickies CR2 above the knees. Now, my feeling was (and still is) that she is an original figure. SMV's mesh was all (every polygon!) reshaped from Vickie's mesh at the vertex level, no DAZ morphs were used (she predates Vickie II, incidently). Some of it is _major_ reshaping. I feel those (new) locations belong to me, I have no legal rights, of course. So here we go, SML is my shape and my mesh, so it is my original figure, right? Lets say we have Checy car and put a Ford engine in it, still a Checy, right? But how about if we change to a Ford frame and wheels? And then go to a Ford body, too? Is it still a Chevy? But after saying that, it is a tricky question, and I've accepted DAZ's decision on it, I sell at DAZ, after all, I don't want to piss them off, plus SML is free, I'm surely not loosing any money by requiring Vickie, most of the people who would use her have her already. I should also add it was very kind of DAZ to allow me to still distribute her this way, they might be able to do something like this with Amy. Let me also say that I still intend to do my own from-scratch super lady eventually, I'm glad these problems surfaced with SML. I intend to work with DAZ to build a figure that they don't think infringes on their existing hard work.