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Post by squirmydad on Jun 26, 2009 15:06:07 GMT -9
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Post by Slick on Jul 16, 2009 14:56:53 GMT -9
WAHAAAA this is AWESOME thanks a bunch Jim! I wish I had seen this a few weeks ago when you posted it. It would have saved me a huge amount of time looking for fabric textures.
Nate
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Post by old squirmydad on Jul 22, 2009 10:07:34 GMT -9
Verrry cool. Thank you for these.
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Post by anitangel on Sept 11, 2009 6:19:27 GMT -9
I have only found one of them on my own. Of course I haven't been looking for any ever since then. Thank you for these links they are very useful!
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Post by squirmydad on Sept 11, 2009 8:44:46 GMT -9
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Post by gatchaman on Sept 16, 2009 10:50:14 GMT -9
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Post by Sirrob01 on Oct 19, 2012 14:54:23 GMT -9
cgtextures is pretty much a no go for card modeling. They put up new rules regarding scrapbooking so I emailed them to check and got back a "no" they wouldn't like the textures used in that fashion, straight from there faq: Can I use the textures to create digital scrapbooking materials? No. The images may not be used for digital scrapbooking AT ALL. As you can read in the license, the images may not be redistributed as textures or as derived products. Scrapbooking packs generally consist of cutout versions or layered versions of the textures. They are derived products; thus you would be reselling a derived product. To make it crystal clear: You may not use the images for ANY kind of digital scrapbooking work.Pretty much what we do for card models. probably okay for personal use but not for sharing. However 2 more: www.2textured.com/www.plaintextures.com/index.php - some free some pay
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Post by dcbradshaw on Oct 20, 2012 7:29:23 GMT -9
They are derived products; thus you would be reselling a derived product. Daaaaaah, wouldn't using them for ANY reason outside of their original form constitute a derived product? That seems weird. What else would you be doing with them?
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Post by old squirmydad on Oct 20, 2012 8:47:04 GMT -9
That's a shame, great library there.
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Post by Sirrob01 on Oct 21, 2012 2:42:29 GMT -9
Yeh, I wasn't to happy myself. I've started carrying my camera and photographing any texture I find to make my own library. If I get enough or think they'll be useful to others I'll upload them at some point for anyone .
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Post by old squirmydad on Oct 21, 2012 9:16:50 GMT -9
Yeh, I wasn't to happy myself. I've started carrying my camera and photographing any texture I find to make my own library. If I get enough or think they'll be useful to others I'll upload them at some point for anyone . I was able to get pics of some good weathered wooden fences this summer on one of the few non-rainy days. I should start an Alaskan textures page. I re-read cgtextures documentations, and their main point is not to dl the images and then turn and around and re-distribute them as images. They specifically say that they can be used in videogame and model development, either commercial or free, unless it's for Second Life. They really don't like Second Life.
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Post by Christopher Roe on Oct 21, 2012 9:45:43 GMT -9
There seems to be a misunderstanding.
Sirrob, when you asked them if it was OK to use their textures for card models and figures, did you in any way bring up scrapbooking or give them the impression that what we do is anything like scrapbooking? The reason I ask is because people unfamiliar with Hobby X will zone out until you mention familiar Hobby Y, and they'll have it in their head that Hobby X is "just like Hobby Y", and hilarity ensues.
The stuff we do doesn't have much in common with scrapbooking beyond using a lot of the same tools and techniques. The spirit of their licensing conditions is straightforward: no redistributing or reselling their textures as your textures. They're cool with you using them as minor ingredients, but their textures can't be the whole thing that you're redistributing or reselling, and scrapbooking falls foul of that last point.
Their licensing terms specifically permit using their textures with 3D models, both free and commercial. The licensing terms also specifically permit using their textures in print and digital media. Since what we do essentially involves creating print-and-build versions of 3D models, paper model designers are not violating their licensing conditions.
All that having been said, however, the real value in places like CGTextures is as a visual reference and a spice rack for your own texture recipes, not as a source of finished textures.
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Post by Sirrob01 on Oct 21, 2012 11:06:10 GMT -9
Unfortunately no. I sent the question more as If I used a brick texture on a paper model and overlayed shadows grim etc on this would it be okay to then share this and got a no and pointed at the faq to scrapbooking. I did check 8-9 months ago now maybe there view will have changed, I'll see if I can dig up the original email. Of course I'm overlay paranoid and conservative on using other peoples images
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Post by Christopher Roe on Oct 21, 2012 11:23:50 GMT -9
Huh. I guess a scrapbooker really whized in their Cheerios and they're still sore about it.
It's an oddly specific exclusion and a "frown and point at the sign" response to you seems more emotional than logical when the entirety of the license terms are considered, so they probably just hulked out the second they saw "paper" or "card" and assumed we were scrapbookers.
Oh, well.
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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 Vermin King on Jan 17, 2013 9:02:21 GMT -9
Excellent news!
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Post by okumarts on Jan 17, 2013 10:07:33 GMT -9
Great news!!!
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Jan 17, 2013 10:38:46 GMT -9
... as long as what you are selling/redistributing is a full model (not texture sheets)... The pessimist in me made me interpret this to mean "as long as you're distributing a built model and not pdfs of textures"... I wish their response was more explicit. As stated, I don't know if they saw the pictures and assume what you distribute is a fully built model, or if they saw it and thought that PDFs that you print and build yourself are OK because the textures are sufficiently modified/integrated. My brain seems to like to run through all the possibilities for misinterpretation and picks the worst case scenario.
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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 gilius on Jan 17, 2013 11:54:32 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?
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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 Sirrob01 on Jan 17, 2013 22:18:00 GMT -9
Thanks Squirmy slightly different to the reply I got . I can cycle them back into my to be used pile yay
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Post by pavaro on Jul 1, 2013 6:59:16 GMT -9
Great texture!
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Post by klachowski on Nov 21, 2013 14:32:11 GMT -9
There are great texture resources on www.opengameart.org , many of which are public domain or released under some sort of creative commons license. A blank search for textures yields this.
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Post by zygrott24 on Dec 27, 2013 8:42:58 GMT -9
I second OpengameArt.org. They have tons of seamless textures for tiling. Some more that I discovered in my attempts to learn illustrator: Just search for "texture" pdtextures.blogspot.com/ www.thepublicdomain.net/www.geminoidi.com I also love creative commons textures(which usually just require attribution to the original artist), but it seems people like the ease of public domain use a lot more.
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Post by plaintextures on Jan 1, 2014 11:55:39 GMT -9
Hi there,
I've just come to say that you're welcome to use our textures for your paper models. We don't really have any restrictions on our textures apart from direct resell or redistribution. If you use them to design models and then sell them that is fine with us. Just don't sell or redistribute textures on their own. In fact I would like to see some nice paper models using our textures
http:\\www.plaintextures.com
admin plaintextures.com
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Post by bravesirkevin on Jan 2, 2014 17:11:32 GMT -9
Hi there, I've just come to say that you're welcome to use our textures for your paper models. We don't really have any restrictions on our textures apart from direct resell or redistribution. If you use them to design models and then sell them that is fine with us. Just don't sell or redistribute textures on their own. In fact I would like to see some nice paper models using our textures http:\\www.plaintextures.com admin plaintextures.com I visit plaintextures fairly often, and I've used a texture from there on occasion in some of my sets. Not bad at all, though the site has gotten a lot harder to use than it was in the early days
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Post by plaintextures on Jan 11, 2014 14:16:52 GMT -9
I visit plaintextures fairly often, and I've used a texture from there on occasion in some of my sets. Not bad at all, though the site has gotten a lot harder to use than it was in the early days thanks. we are working on new categories and will make it easier to find textures.
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Nov 8, 2015 8:48:27 GMT -9
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