I decided to make materials for this, since I thought it was such a well-made model and wanted to put it into my projects. We didn't have a sink! I didn't want to get carried away making it too dirty, but there's a bit. The texture resources I used are from 'rubberduck' and all CC0:- https://opengameart.org/users/rubberduck
Contents of the ZIP are just what goes into the bases of the projects.
(I didn't do any LOD stages yet, that will come later...)
So, here you go:- www.violae.net/temp/kevdevlowpolysink1_prev.jpg www.violae.net/temp/kevdevlowpolysink1.zip
.
.
.
In reality, not many of us can afford legitimate legal advice. Maybe I'm too cynical but most of them would just love to throw you into an infinite black hole of ambiguities and contradictions, while charging you by the hour...
Just reach out to the artist and like I said, appropriate a template for a release agreement. They are pretty standard. It will make sure you have non-exclusive commercial rights and put, at least in part, liability on all signators. Anyone who is genuine and confident about their work should have no problem signing it for you.
Ultimately, you're never really going to be sure unless you're working with artists in a physical studio and watching them throughout the creation process, usually given a set of licensed resources and software particular to that studio, so they can be 100% sure, and even then there's a lot of paperwork and contracts flying around.
Sometimes an artist may use resources (carelessly but innocently enough just Googled) and unwittingly violate copyright, even something as simple as a rivet or screw, as part of a bigger work. The only way to be sure is to have a release agreement with some mutual liability. Then, you actually have something to take to a lawyer to notorise, which _should_ take less than 1 hour...
It can get messy and depressing. However, by all means - never let any of that dissuade anyone from continuing to try!
Could you tell us a bit about how you created these and what software you use?
Also, are these destined for (or already in) any projects you could link to?
If in doubt, contact the artist directly (and privately) and get them to sign a release agreement, and negotiate the license terms as needed. You shouldn't really need a lawyer for that as there are viable templates available online.
I see 2 options for the aspiring "idea-guys" (exclusively designers):- Either also be the cash-guy and fund the project - or have enough coding skills to do playable mockups (even just something like Clickteam Fusion) AND also be a decent concept artist and writer.
Ideally, it takes multiple people with relatively dedicated skills to make a game and each one of those team members are designers in their own right. In the AAA industry, someone with the title of designer has worked their way up over years and has dedicated skills with a list of published titles under their belt. For indies, that's impossible, everyone must pull their weight.
Nice. I absolutely agree that all 3D artists should learn about this stuff and learn how to collaborate together to minimise batches and drawcalls throughout the project.
Having said that, there are plenty of things programmers can do that will make the framerate plummet also.
Nice, thank you for these. :)
I decided to make materials for this, since I thought it was such a well-made model and wanted to put it into my projects. We didn't have a sink! I didn't want to get carried away making it too dirty, but there's a bit. The texture resources I used are from 'rubberduck' and all CC0:-
https://opengameart.org/users/rubberduck
Contents of the ZIP are just what goes into the bases of the projects.
(I didn't do any LOD stages yet, that will come later...)
So, here you go:-
www.violae.net/temp/kevdevlowpolysink1_prev.jpg
www.violae.net/temp/kevdevlowpolysink1.zip
.
.
.
In reality, not many of us can afford legitimate legal advice. Maybe I'm too cynical but most of them would just love to throw you into an infinite black hole of ambiguities and contradictions, while charging you by the hour...
Just reach out to the artist and like I said, appropriate a template for a release agreement. They are pretty standard. It will make sure you have non-exclusive commercial rights and put, at least in part, liability on all signators. Anyone who is genuine and confident about their work should have no problem signing it for you.
Ultimately, you're never really going to be sure unless you're working with artists in a physical studio and watching them throughout the creation process, usually given a set of licensed resources and software particular to that studio, so they can be 100% sure, and even then there's a lot of paperwork and contracts flying around.
Sometimes an artist may use resources (carelessly but innocently enough just Googled) and unwittingly violate copyright, even something as simple as a rivet or screw, as part of a bigger work. The only way to be sure is to have a release agreement with some mutual liability. Then, you actually have something to take to a lawyer to notorise, which _should_ take less than 1 hour...
It can get messy and depressing. However, by all means - never let any of that dissuade anyone from continuing to try!
Nice work! :)
Could you tell us a bit about how you created these and what software you use?
Also, are these destined for (or already in) any projects you could link to?
If in doubt, contact the artist directly (and privately) and get them to sign a release agreement, and negotiate the license terms as needed. You shouldn't really need a lawyer for that as there are viable templates available online.
Really nice material! Thanks for sharing.
I suddenly have the urge to play some Battletoads.
I've made a list of free software and resources you might find useful:-
www.violationentertainment.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=414
www.violationentertainment.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Free
I see 2 options for the aspiring "idea-guys" (exclusively designers):-
Either also be the cash-guy and fund the project - or have enough coding skills to do playable mockups (even just something like Clickteam Fusion) AND also be a decent concept artist and writer.
Ideally, it takes multiple people with relatively dedicated skills to make a game and each one of those team members are designers in their own right. In the AAA industry, someone with the title of designer has worked their way up over years and has dedicated skills with a list of published titles under their belt. For indies, that's impossible, everyone must pull their weight.
Nice. I absolutely agree that all 3D artists should learn about this stuff and learn how to collaborate together to minimise batches and drawcalls throughout the project.
Having said that, there are plenty of things programmers can do that will make the framerate plummet also.
Pages