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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 17, 2013 21:05:31 GMT -9
Finally had some time to sit and sketch, then turn the sketch into a 3d rough. My take on a Ball-tank design; youtu.be/7_KhH9w1Rrw
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 17, 2013 15:05:08 GMT -9
This is cool news I suppose that using their textures in sheets of model bases is walking dangerously close to the frontier of "scrapbook" land? Send them a sample and check.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 17, 2013 11:39:31 GMT -9
My brain seems to like to run through all the possibilities for misinterpretation and picks the worst case scenario. I think we're cool, it's collections of textures and scrapbook texture bundlers/resellers that seem to set them off.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 17, 2013 7:57:45 GMT -9
Hi Eric,
The use of our textures in paper models is fine, as long as what you are selling/redistributing is a full model (not texture sheets). No royalties or usage fee is required.
Scrapbooking is something different: it's photo collage books people make themselves. We had too much abuse from scrapbookers simply reselling our textures for profit, so unfortunately we had to ban all scrapbooking use.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Kind regards,
Marcel CGTextures.comOn Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Eric Brown <squirmydad@yahoo.com> wrote: Dear CGTextures.com, I am a 3D paper-modeller and I had some questions about your license policies. A friend and fellow paper-modeller recently informed me that the work we do fell under your 'scrapbook' policy and we were therefore forbidden to use your textures in our model creations. I thought perhaps it was unclear what we were doing with the textures so I created the following model using one of your textures as part of the base texturing. The model can be downloaded for your inspection here; dl.dropbox.com/u/2320000/Juggernaut/Undersea_Kingdom1.zipYour site's use disclaimer is on the front page. The texture I used was this one; Grungemaps0119 www.cgtextures.com/login.php?&texid=34246&destination=texview.php?id=34246&PHPSESSID=hq1efoca6a7943rfs1et8ttpf5 So my question is; Does this fall under your fair use guidelines or does this count as a prohibited activity? Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 16, 2013 10:30:44 GMT -9
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 15, 2013 16:57:56 GMT -9
I added a layered pdf version to the files today, enjoy!
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 12, 2013 10:13:20 GMT -9
Newccomts award; When I was managing the MMiP showcases on a monthly basis I had two award tracks running-the best overall award and a "Fantastic New Guy" award for first time entrants. Winners in those showcases were always chosen by popular vote and prizes were provided by myself and a few friends donating gift certificates.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 11, 2013 10:15:39 GMT -9
After reading through hundreds of forum posts, most of which are wild speculation, I'm still waiting for the official OFFICIAL announcement from Adobe on what they were thinking. Seems to me they could have posted the DL page without the serials and then just sent the serials to all the registered users, since that's who they originally stated this was all for in the first place. Making an announcement that it's only for one group, but leaving EVERYTHING out in the open for anyone to pick up and play with is like leaving a yellow sticky note on a pile of gold that says, "Don't pick up! Not for you!" and expecting that to guard the treasure. Bizarre. It's fun to play with Auditions again, I kept hoping it would come out for the Mac as I don't really like GarageBand. I used to have a teaching lab with five PC's that all had Auditions (licensed student copies so that was all legal) but my old boss shut it down as he was a PC hater. After he quit I found out he was actually illiterate and was afraid somebody would find out so he got rid of things that might give it away, like working with PC's.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 11, 2013 10:00:06 GMT -9
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 10, 2013 9:49:43 GMT -9
I like the second version with the click to expand option. Looks better and communicates the major points effectively. A wall of text can often cause eye-glazing...The House of Blues had a simple sign behind the bar that said, "Be nice or leave." I copied that for my old shop and pointed it out to new students each year as part of their orientation.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 9, 2013 17:53:21 GMT -9
Unfortunately that's not that good. According to Adobe these are downloads and activation codes only for users who already got legal / registered CS2 products, and this action was started just because of termination of Adobe CS2 activation servers in late December, sad but true. I'm sorry, but that's incorrect. People, including myself, are able to download and install these with no problems. You can't register or update, but that's not a great loss. CS2 is running very nicely on my WinXP machine that has never had any Adobe professional products installed on it. Made using my new CS2 (Land Torpedo);
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 8, 2013 18:43:14 GMT -9
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 6, 2013 19:24:09 GMT -9
OK - some changes / corrections applied Gun is changed and slightly differently positioned => looking better or not? Great! Now he can fight the robot cows.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 5, 2013 22:43:00 GMT -9
I wont close this Hoard off until the weekend of the Jan 14/15, allowing for that 2 weeks we all lose over Xmas that should give about 4 weeks of time to work on submissions for everyone It just occurred to me that we are now into this; Jan/Feb - Real World Armies - Across HistoryI think I have something, need to dig around a bit and see.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 5, 2013 16:04:04 GMT -9
Yes, the problem I had was that I didn't know how to make changes to what pepakura thought it should look like. It's a problem of ignorance and inexperience on my part, not any problem with the software. That and I think there are better 3D modeling programs out there for this kind of thing than Google Sketch up, so I was curious what other people used. Ryan Actually I think Google Sketchup has two different unfolding programs that work with it, one free and one not, iirc. One of the reasons that I go through Metasequoia is that it preps things nicely for Pepakura and makes my layout work in Pepakura much easier.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 3, 2013 13:27:12 GMT -9
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 3, 2013 13:04:47 GMT -9
That tank looks amazing! I really like the style of your vehicles. What program(s) do you use to make them? Thanks, and "processes" is right. There's two main programs and then a bunch of intermediary bits to get me from point A to Point B. It goes like this; 1) Pen and paper to scribble out basic ideas and shapes. I don't brainstorm as well in a CAD program as well as I do on paper. 2) Make shapes in CAD program. My Cad program is called Vectorworks 12, I learned it as part of my technical theatre training but it works well for toy creation too. 3) Export DXF file, open dxf file in Metasequoia to proof, fix, and convert. I find that Metasequoia files work better in Pepakura than the straight dxf out of Vectorworks. 4) Open the Metasequoia version in Pepakura. Unfold, layout, switch every damn flap because Pepakura and I disagree on building methods. And here is a crossroads, depending on what I'm doing. I can export out of Pepakura as either an EPS file or a new dxf file. If I go the dxf route then I can open the file in Robomaster, which would give me my cutting file and print to pdf from Robomaster. 5) The pdf from Robomaster, or the eps file from Pepakura, then gets opened in Photoshop. Texture, texture, texture... 6) If I'm making a layered pdf Isave png files of the layer options and build the layered pdf in InDesign. 7) I use Acrobat to build the final pdf booklet. 8) If I went the eps file to Photoshop route then I come back at this point and trace the layout file in Robomaster to create my cutting files. And then I print it, build it, and play with it! Easy.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 3, 2013 12:41:28 GMT -9
They've got a good corporate security thug feel to them, thanks!
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 2, 2013 21:26:20 GMT -9
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 2, 2013 19:31:38 GMT -9
Just a couple of little things I was tinkering with. I wanted a central machine-gun turret on top of my Steam Ram, but the gun didn't clear the forward structure. So here's a little turret base ring in the dark grey color scheme. Also, some of my troops were getting tired of walking to the battle so I made this armored box; I didn't make a carriage but, just by lucky chance, the armored personnel compartment fits nicely into this wagon from WWG's Deadfall:Street's of Blood. Until I get around to making a support carriage I recommend everyone go buy this set from WWG, they're having a sale right now too. The new bits are here; dl.dropbox.com/u/2320000/New%20Cog%20bits/New-Cog-bits.zipHave fun!
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 2, 2013 17:16:46 GMT -9
Interesting, my page is classified as 'Explore Later'.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 1, 2013 16:05:43 GMT -9
Sorry, I meant to photograph the other miniatures, but they took a wrong turn on their way to the studio and were unfortunately eaten by giant spiders and scorpions. So, unfortunately, I have no photographs of them. *Additional models and miniatures by Sirrob01, Eddnic and papermodels.at As far as market viability for a number of Samurai figure sets, I honestly can't say. I'd buy them all myself, however, I believe I am a minority. There are very few plastic and resin manufacturers of samurai miniatures, their work is highly praised....but I have a feeling they don't really sell that many of them. Justa guess from the gut, not a definitive market analysis.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 1, 2013 11:33:00 GMT -9
Absolutely gorgeous. ;D I see that I can start making my rivets bigger, the larger ones on your mech give it a nice "chunky" look.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 1, 2013 11:25:51 GMT -9
Thanks for fixing these too Tonsha. Now that that's done you can go back to making new stuff.
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Post by old squirmydad on Dec 29, 2012 19:12:54 GMT -9
We are getting a midwinter tropical storm, 46F here today. Might be past 50F tomorrow when the cyclone arrives. Yes, Alaska is getting a cyclone in midwinter.
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Post by old squirmydad on Dec 28, 2012 21:01:55 GMT -9
Wow, pretty slick-looking piece. ;D I love the concept of the giant revolver, you might also look for inspiration from Hotchkiss arms; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_B._HotchkissAnd his 37mm multi-barrel canon-revolver;
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Post by old squirmydad on Dec 25, 2012 20:13:12 GMT -9
Merry Christmas Dryw! Thank you for all of the imperfect joys you bring. ;D
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Post by old squirmydad on Dec 25, 2012 20:11:25 GMT -9
Merry Christmas from Alaska! Home of Santa's Workshop. ;D
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Post by old squirmydad on Dec 25, 2012 20:08:47 GMT -9
Merry Christmas from up-over! ;D
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Post by old squirmydad on Dec 25, 2012 20:07:45 GMT -9
Merry Christmas from Alaska! The temp came up to 30F and we even had some snow for a white Christmas.
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