A Question For The Team Regarding A Serious Topic

Dirty_JDirty_J Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6863Members
ok, i need to know if you all mind cause i was banned from dod forums for doing something similar

i plan to take a ut2k3 model, then rebuild another model with the same shape just less polygons, then i will remap the textures and put them as models in natural selection

i need to find out if you all care if somebody does something like this or what

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  • Relic25Relic25 Pixel Punk Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 39Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    I doubt if anyone cares, and even if they did, it's not as though there were anything we could do to stop you. Just don't count on official sites to ever host your models for downloads.

    Unfortunately, there is a limited amount of control develeops have over their creative efforts, and if someone wants to screw with our efforts, then there isn't much we can do about it.

    "I bought this Picasso, but I like Goya's faces better, so I'm gonna copy those and paint them over the figures in my Picasso." <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Dirty_JDirty_J Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6863Members
    ya i understand but some production companies do not want their work recreated for another game

    but since your game is non profit i guess they couldnt do jack shit about it
  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    Any Unreal 2K3 models are the intellectual property of Digital Extremes, Epic or Atari (Dunno which one) I have seen that they've released the mesh files to the UT2K3 community so I'm not to sure of the legal rights involved with a situation like this.

    I would THINK that any recreation of their models without the express permission by them is strictly prohibited. However with such wide spread stuff like mp3's, warez, etc I can't really stop you.

    Not that I'm condoning stealing.

    *cough*

    *shuffles documents on desk*


    What model were you looking at? (Obviously the marines) Mr.Crow is mah fav ^_^
  • Dirty_JDirty_J Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6863Members
    bleh its hardly stealing

    i just want to cut the polycounts and lower the image sizes and put them in another game, nothing really wrong with that


    i was gonna do juggarnaut base for heavy and the malcom base for light, keep in mind they will most likely have new skins as well but bleh
  • SovKhanSovKhan Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7099Members
    DIRTY im up here to. sweetness
  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Dirty_J+Nov 6 2002, 06:53 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Dirty_J @ Nov 6 2002, 06:53 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->bleh its hardly stealing<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Actually, your infringing on the intellectual property of whoever owns the rights to the UT2K3 models. This is basically plagarising their work. I can't stop you from doing this, I am just informing you of international copyright laws so you know where you may stand in the eyes of owners of these models.

    As long as your not making any profit off of this, you'll be fine.
  • Dirty_JDirty_J Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6863Members
    edited November 2002
    but im not using it for my own good, im just putting it into something else and im taking absoluetly no credit for it

    as long as im not taking credit for it im not stealing it, im using it for something else, thats like using a baseball bat for killing somebody, it wasnt meant to be killed with but you can still do it, i dunno i dont consider it stealing, i consider it using the public models to their potential
  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Dirty_J+Nov 6 2002, 07:56 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Dirty_J @ Nov 6 2002, 07:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->thats like using a baseball bat for killing somebody, it wasnt meant to be killed with but you can still do it<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You

    have

    ISSUES
  • 0see30see3 Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4388Members
    If you use it for your OWN use, nobody can really do anything, but if you release it online for the public to use, you could actually be prosecuted, and this board could possibly get in trouble, for letting it happen.

    The law is a tricky thing, and it all depends on how anal the company and their lawyers are. I wouldn't risk it if I was you. Your best idea is use it for yourself if you want, but don't release it. Believe me, it's the intellectual property of the company and the creators, without proper legal documentation of you being allowed to use it, you're pretty much not allowed to. That's the law, gotta live with it.

    and...<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->i was banned from dod forums for doing something similar<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->You haven't learned???
  • MausMaus Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5599Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--|0see3|+Nov 6 2002, 03:10 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (|0see3| @ Nov 6 2002, 03:10 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->If you use it for your OWN use, nobody can really do anything, but if you release it online for the public to use, you could actually be prosecuted, and this board could possibly get in trouble, for letting it happen.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Pfft, so long as he gives credit to the original modellers it'll be fine. The worst that could happen is that he'd be politely requested to remove the models.
  • NecroNecro &lt;insert non-birthday-related title here&gt; Join Date: 2002-08-09 Member: 1118Members
    what happened in the dod forums is if someone took the MOHAA models, released them for dod and said who made it, they got banned, i REALLY REALLY hope it doesn't go that low here, not even cs forumers did that!
  • Power-LinePower-Line Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6920Members
    yeah butyou release stuff like i did the rangers somehwere else but just lead them to that place without directly releaseing it
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