Hi Ok well I aquired this model from fantastic arts, it was initally a lightwave model, but it has not got an authors name or contact details. I tried to contact the person whose site it was on but have had no reply. Well I've finally converted it to poser all except texture which i'm working on (thorght i'd done it then found i'd used wrong version of obj file tex all over the place!) but if I can't contact the author I can't let anyone else have it can I! So if anyone can help thanks Dave

I don' know rightly what ya call it...or who mighta made the dern thang, but we'uns used to catch them suckers on stinkbait outen the crick 'hind the feed store....hyuk,hyuk...they taste like pig$%#@ 'less ya fry em a long time.... Scarab Junior<- (tugging his forelock and scratchin his rash....)

You can try to IM a Mod or Admin to be sure, but I believe you're correct. Unless the mesh has been specifically released for such use in the readme, or you have specific permission from the author, it can't be shared. Kind of a shame you couldn't just post a cr2 with a readme telling where to get the obj, but I believe that's a NoGo as well. Have you tried punching the file's name into Google, to see if it comes up on anyone's personal WebPage?

A) It looks like type of plesiosaur B) You're correct in that redistribution w/o permission is verboten C) if you're not getting an answer from the web page owner you might try sending an email to the hosting company & see if they can pass a message along or if it's a unique domain name you could try doing a lookup in the internic database over at http://www.samspade.org.

Wasn't that thing up at 3dCafe for a while? You might try there, and also ask aorund in the lightwave forum here. If you can't get permission you're stuck :( which is a shame after your hard work

It's also hosted at 3D Cafe (again, uncredited) as "nessy.zip".

LD can I hire you to be my brain? I mention a vgue recollection and you always come through with footnoted bibliographies. Thanks :)

Uh, you're welcome. :) Sorry, but I already have a job. Your post slipped in under the radar while I composing mine, so it was just coincidence.

I mentioned that possibility in my post above. I have an impression it wouldn't be acceptible, but I'd be happy if proved wrong!

The original is in LWO format, Legume. And it isn't even UV-mapped. We'd need the converted .obj that TheWanderer has worked on. Here's another interesting idea ... Encrypt the files with RTEncoder so that they're useless without the original mesh as the key.

I bielieve the model is a bab ylockness monster

I love that mesh, used it a few times myself.... Maybe the guys at 3dcafe could tell you where it came from.... I'd love to have a posable verion of that beastie! Let us know.....8^)