Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Richmond BC
Posts: 73

im sure most of you allready know this but ill say it anyways :P

I noticed in the design doc thread that JI said contributers would have to be kept to a minimum do to possible publishing and money distribution or something like that. The thing is, if money is made off the game, every signel model must be made with a Valid and paid for copy of 3d studio Max r3 (or whatever version is compatible). In other words, if you are using warez, a borrowed copy, evaluation copy, educational copy, anything that u havent paid for yourself, you can and might be sued.

It is illegal just to possess the copy, (if warez or borrowed) however, companies like Kinetix and Discreet do not care AS LONG AS YOU DONT MAKE MONEY OFF IT....

like i said, im sure most of you know this, however i hear alot of talk about people who cant wait to make stuff with their warez (i being one of them )


btw, about the cloaking mine thing i posted about in the design doc thread, currently when you cloak in tribes 2, the cloaked person becomes ALMOST invisible, there is a "disterbance" where they should be (kinda like Metal Gear Solid, if uve ever played that)

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Basement
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Innocent untill proven guilty. My copy of 3d studio max is bought and paid for, try and prove me wrong without illegal search and seizure.

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Exactly, they cant search without a good reason, and "he made some 3Dsmax models" is not good enough.

And its not like the models have imbedded tags that say the software used to create them was pirated, nor do the tags say what the key of the program used was...

so theres really no problem.

Besides, I use 3DSMax at school a lot, and they have it liscenced, obviously.

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like we all have legal copies of windows if you want to go that far.

my MAX is legit ... but a reality issue like that isn't ever going to come up, especially given we have to convert to a dynamix proprietary format, they can't even trace it back as far as MAX except on an assumption ... besides there's always "i made them on a friend's machine, he moved away last week and i don't remember his name"

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Aaaah gotta love innocent till proven guilty

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