Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Ethical question about textures...

Eowyn opened this issue on Mar 06, 2002 ยท 50 posts


Eowyn posted Wed, 06 March 2002 at 1:30 PM

Right.. I feel kinda ripped off and thought I'd ask for your opinions on something. I was going through my textures today, looking at my most favourite Vicki textures and also the ones I don't use much etc. I noticed that some of the textures (by the same creator) looked very similar so I took them to Photoshop to look at them all next to each other. I really had to rub my eyes: the textures looked practically identical. I went further than that. I resized the textures (body textures, btw) so they were all the same size, after that I copied and pasted them so that they were all in one file on top of each other... and well, what do you know. They are identical except for slight difference in colour tone (if even that). I feel ripped off. They are all commercial textures sold separately. I haven't made all that many textures myself but I would never keep selling one texture as half a dozen different characters. Apparently some do, though, but yet they're considered the top of the whole bunch of artists here on Renderosity. How do you feel about this? Is it right to simply adjust the brightness or hue of the texture a bit and then sell it as a "fantastic new texture"? Or is it so that only the head texture counts so you can just keep using the same body texture over and over again? sigh Sorry, just had to rant. I am so pissed off.