Hi,
I want to create a character for V4, to sell in the marketplace here. The character would utilise certain morphs that can be purchased from DAZ as part of their 'Creature Creator' package of morphs for V4. As these morphs were not created by me, is it illegal for me to include them as part of my product? Am I only allowed to sell the texture, and let people buy the morphs from DAZ if they want them? Can I only sell a character if I create the morphs myself?

Thanks.

Yes, it is against the license to distribute the actual morphs. However, you can supply the dial settings for the morphs so that people who have them will get the same effect. If you've made a custom morph by taking a head shaped with the DAZ morphs and further modifying it in a modeller then you can distribute that as your custom morph plus the dial settings: in Poser, your'd load the head shape created with the DAZ morphs and the finished morph (DAZ morphs plus your shaping) as a pair of morph targets, set the DAZ-morphs verion to -1 and the combined morph to +1 and export that as a new morph target, which would be just your contributuion: you could then package that as a new injection morph and supply it with the dial settings for the DAZ morphs.

That applies to pretty much all morphs - about the only exception I know of is a set at RuntimeDNA that are sold as a merchant resource. The rule is that if it doesn't explicilty say you can use it as a basis for your own work, for redistribution, then you can't.

You can't include someone else's morphs but you can sell a pose that uses them, just let people know they need to get Creature Creator  in order to use your product.

 Ah, that's what I was seeking: to supply the dial settings so that people who had already purchased the package from DAZ could get the same effect. Obviously, people who hadn't already purchased the package would get no result, and merely the texture would load.

Thanks very much. Just thought I'd better check to save myself a lot of grief:)