https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2919&p=37040#p37040
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hanzoushinrei
Monday, 17 September 2007, 02:10 PM

Legal Or Illegal? Ripping 3D Models From Games
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Since I play a lot of games, which often have a lot of nice models (weapons, vehicles, buildings etc...) I joined a modding community to try tweaking those games myself. I got a copy of MilkShape3D, which can rip out the models for a lot of games (mostly FPS, but one I like most is The Sims - a lotta furnitures!) 

Now i find myself ripping them and turning them into props for Posy. Is this illegal? Like piracy? I'm not going to distribute those models anywhere...but how about those modders? should id software (for instance) arrest them too? :grin: 

those models I ripped are really authentic...can't find them anywhere, even at r'osity...for instance Quake II's ETF rifle...I really liked that weapon in that game, and I exported into 3DS before propping it into POSER 6.

I tried telling myself (justifying it) as a tribute to the game developers who made that great game....but again guilt stared at me from the corner...


what do you think?


(posy with a Quake II Disruptor rifle - untextured)


[url=http://upload3.postimage.org/123966/photo_hosting.html][img]http://upload3.postimage.org/123966/PosyDisr.jpg[/img]


