Spanki opened this issue on Jun 30, 2003 ยท 9 posts
_dodger posted Tue, 01 July 2003 at 8:07 AM
'PBMDC_xx' As you said, the CC channels, not the DC channels though no one can really do anything about it, it's just an unwritten standard. is there any special reason to save it as a prop file? or is this a typo Typo. Ive been on a lot of codeine lately. PZ2 Is there any convention to which one of those channels I pick? I guess the only potential hitch is if both you and I chose the same ones for our custom morphs, then both my and your morphs can't be used on the same character at the same time without the end user editing the file. Not that I can tel, just that the DC and CC determine reserved-ness or not. You can email PhoenixRising (Anton) through the system here, BTW. If he doesn't want it, he can filter it easy enough. and lastly, do you have any comment on whether this can all be done in a .cr2 file (using readScript directives and removing any geometry deltas)? Does Daz have a page somewhere on V3 distribution? You found the page already, good work. Here's how I read it: 1) You cannot give away or sell ANY geometry OR deltas from DAZ or anyone else who has a copyright on such. so 2) No, you cannot give away a CR2 as a character. especially since 3) There's more than deltas they want protected, including come complex games they played with joint-controlled morphs in relation to JP action and such things. and moreover 4) Anton specifically said that 'if you don't wanna pay, you don't get to play' in another thread some time ago. (I can find it if he comes in saying he didn't say that). Basically, the V3 CR2 contains trade semi-secrets (not that secret, but to look at the original mammal you'd need to own the file) that DAZ at least wants people to pay for the CR2 to see, and not be able to D/L from free stuff or buy a less expensive product for (not that V3 was that badly priced for what you get, especially if you grabbed her on sale as a DAZ broker B^) so, to distribute a character, here's the easiest thing to do: 1) Make a PZ2 Delta INJection Pose 2) Make a MAT pose 3) Make a combined MAT/INJ/MOR Pose that calls the MAT pose, calls the INJ pose, and sets the morph parametres. Use readScripts where possible to avoid duplication of data to keep the whole thing small. Then all a user has to do is load up V3 and then load up your MAT/INJ/MOR pose and viola, there's the character. Of course, if you have a character with some additional geometry or parts of the geometry replaced, then you have problems. For instance, if you wanted to make a succubus V3 with Control Handle bat wings and an EasyPose tail, using a new lCollar and rCollar and hip and abdomen geometry part, made to weld perfectly with the original AND having most of the mesh the same except where it opens up to allow the connection parts, you would have problems. If you want to do that, however, there's an easy solution: Sell it through DAZ. They have a right to allow you to do that stuff, but they'll want a portion of the profits. Realistically, such a figure wouldn't harm their sales -- having two boobs and a butt and bat wings and a tail isn't going to do most people a lot of good on its own. But the 90% of the mesh for the Collars and hip and whatever other parts are shaped slightly differently to accomodate the additional anatomy WOULD be a copyright violation and would get you in trouble unless it had their blessing. Like most companies, you're not likely to get such a blessing UNLESS they are making a part of it back. (Or you could have the user jump through the hoops of using a DIFF file of some sort like OBJaction Mover to extract the geometry requiring the original to be purchased to get at the closely similar-but-modified mesh parts, and thus protecting yourself from legal issues but making the users grow weary very quickly.) Overall, if it's iffy, at all, but it looks good and works well and doesn't crash Poser and is something with a fairly broad appeal, submit it to DAZ. First, they will tell you if you can sell it anywhere else if they don't accept it (Daniel Vest is a Nice Guy TM) and second, if they accept it, you don't need to worry because if they are willing to broker it it's okay -- they're on the ball, plus by brokering it they are pretty much implicitly stating it's okay to sell through their site to their knowledge, so it would be kind of goofy to sue you over it later. Mostlym, if they are willing to sell it and it goes nto the premier marketplace, you' have rent paid two months later (they hold back a month)