Attached Link: Jim's Real Concrete Materials for Vue 4.x

Okay all, after seeing the number of downloads for a week jump to 260 for my wood textures, I figured I would put together a few more materials. I humbly submit my Concrete collection. I've got quite a number of textures from my truespace days of buying texture CDs for my modeling and have about 10 gigs of good ones. I've been thinking of putting together some floor tiles and/or various metals. If anyone has anything they'd like to see, please let me know. I'm sure I could put together a good collection. Let me know what you think!

These are real nice. I am always searching for different textures, thank you...Sharen

Thanks Jim! I, like Sharen, am always looking for new textures. :)

Thanks, Jim... already used your wood (see vue gallery, Endangered Species).... I think Vue badly needs some good metal textures!! :) Lyne

The problem with these textures (as well with other "collections" from the web) is, that we cannot use it for commercial work, because we have to observe the copyright. If these are textures you have purchased ou even got for free, you may be wrong to give them away in a private collection. Take care! Guitta

Actually Guitta... that's not true. If they have been purchased for use (which most were by myself) they can be used for commercial use. The ones that were collected from the web were free, and can also be used for commercial use. If the pictures were copyrighted legally (which most aren't except for a copyright notice and hardly anyone ever registers with the copyright bureau), and they are placed upon the web, the web is a free exchange of information, especially in pictures. Now... if you wanted to get into copyright legalities, once a picture which has been copyrighted has changed formats to be used in an entirely different way, the holder of the original copyright cannot pursue legal avenues due to the fact that the meduim has changed in the way it is used. For example... if you take a photograph of a dirt clod... and make it availble for use as a texture for let's say TrueSpace... you have the copyright only for the TrueSpace texture... however, if that same photo is transferred to another medium like Vue, the original copyright does not exist and is transferred to the person that created the texture in Vue. How do you think most of the web was created? Most of the time someone takes code from another site to add to their own. It's a free medium. But enough about that. I really don't think it would matter one way or another if I used a texture in my artwork and sold it, because I'm not Bill Gates, and will probably never even achieve that kind of recognition. And it would probably cost the person more to pursue a lawsuit then to just say to heck with it... so I really wouldn't worry about it.

I do not agree. I know how many "free" textures i had to change on my images what are at the Vue4 CD, because the copyright is VERY important and I did not remember from where I got the textures. ALso I could not ask the permission to the creator. What you create by your own, is free to give away. But i.e. I cannot give away for free, in a collection ar solely, a texture or an object I purchased or got for free somewhere else. I'm doing all the time graphics and work for others, I have to be 100% sure that the textures I used ar free of any charge. It is not me who will have problems, but the person (or firm) who buys my image to publish it:-). Guitta

An extract of Renderosity Magazine's Author guidelines (and this is true for all work you do for publishing): "All content must be free from copyright limitations, and you must be the author of the content you are submitting! No third-party submissions will be accepted. No article will be published unless the proper copyright disclaimer form has been received at the Renderosity office by fax or mail, or email. You must have print rights to every texture, model, pose, and element used in any artwork or tutorials you submit. There will be no exceptions! " Guitta

I agree with you Guitta...for instance in my textures packs for sale here in the Marketplace, the purchaser is free to create something for sale with the textures, but can not include the textures by themselves in a package for sale or for free distribution. For more information on copyrights specifically for artists, please visit this link: http://www.rightsforartists.com/siteindex.html Blues

Well I may not be able to use these for any comercial venture, but I am still learning the program and these will be great for that. Thanks! :)

As for all the legal side, this is starting to sound like the situation in the music industry where people would use samples from other songs in their songs. I think that is still being gone over in the courts isn't it? Kind of a situations where laws have not caught up to the technology. :) All the legal stuff is too messy for me, so I will just be playing it safe and using free ones I find for my practice and will buy/make ones when I am ready to do comercial work. :)

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"*if you take a photograph of a dirt clod... and make it availble for use as a texture for let's say TrueSpace... you have the copyright only for the TrueSpace texture.* This is *so* mistaken. The photograph itself is under copyright as soon as the camera shutter is clicked, and that copyright belongs to the person clicking the shutter. The copyrighted photo is still copyrighted when the copyright owner modifies it for use as a Truspace texture or however else they choose to use it. But *no one else* has the right to modify, reformat, dissect, change it without specific permission granted by the copyright holder -- the person who snapped the shutter on the camera. B3fore continuing to pass along someone else's work as your own, it'd be best to make a visit to the Copyright Forum to learn the truth about copyright.

Oh dear.. now let me see if I have this straight.. as long as I use Jim's textures in my own "for personal use only" fun images and do not SELL them OR my image with them in it,(which I wouldn't anyway) I am free to use them??? Or am I not free to use them at all? This is really confusing... I do use all my 'freebies' only in my own art... and don't even share the freebie zip with anyone else... so am I okay?? Lyne

For your self, Lyne, you may use any free stuff what is given away on the web. Only not commercial0 You always need the permission of the creator. If you don't know him (heir) dont use it for things you sell. And if you don't give away things created by others, it's OK also. :-)Guitta

Technically, Jim's textures garnered from his Truspace CD are illegal for anyone to use except Jim since he didn't license the right to distribute them. In most cases, what Guitta said is correct. When people are making freely available their own work, then it is okay to use it in your work. Some will add restrictions that it cannot be used in commercial projects; others don't have that restriction. The only way to be certain is to read the license information that comes with the download. :)

f the rules! artists make their own. keep it up LrdSatyr8. After all, how many people around here actually paid for their software/textures.

audipod, this are not rules, but laws! Guitta

sigh... I paid for my software...and actually never thought of going to convert my trueSpace materials into vue materials... oh! I guess I can use them, since I HAVE trueSpace! Well, had not thought of that till this very minute! So perhaps that is a help in this quandry... if you have trueSpace it's okay for YOUR OWN USE, but if not, it is questionable... and I prefer not to be questionable... More and more there are folks like Kromekat that are creating wonderful, original textures for us at reasonable prices... and this way we support our own too! :) Lyne

Kromekat's work is amazing! Definitely a good deal, and completely legal, too. :)