[Bf-funboard] cutouts and premade objects for blender

Zetryo Arschane yetzero at GameBox.net
Mon Oct 25 20:28:28 CEST 2004


Great idea. In that case, maybe some sort of mesh output file could be
created for porting just the models in a 'clean' way.


On mon, 25-10-2004 at 08:29, Konrad Haenel wrote:
> I've been thinking a lot about a repository for Blender-models / 
> materials etc. with a flexible license-system. The idea would be that 
> artists could upload their models and select a license from a choice of 
> premade licenses to add to them (like "public domain", "open content 
> license", even commercial licenses etc.). Add in some rating system a 
> good searchability and this might become on of the hotspots of 
> Blender-artwork.
> 
> By adding a shopping-system to this it might be an alternative to sites 
> like turbosquid revolving exclusively around blender, something I could 
> really use.
> 
> Tom Musgrove wrote:
> 
> > A lot of 3d, cad, and 'previz' tools have premade objects, cutouts, 
> > etc. to save users time so that they can spend their creative energys 
> > on stuff that is more central to their design.
> >
> > I was thinking that we might encourage contribituions of useful 
> > objects by perhaps offering rewards of coder time in exchange for 
> > donated works.
> >
> > Ie some things that it would be worthwhile to have artists contribute 
> > to would be morph targets for makehuman, as well as new morph objects 
> > (such as dogs, etc.), settings for interesting and useful textures.  
> > Furniture and assorted mundane housing items, trees and bushes, 
> > flowers, and assorted exterior items, cars and assorted vehicles.
> >
> > Perhaps set up some sort of karma point system or such and then the 
> > artist assigns the karma points to tools and ideas that they would 
> > like implemented.  Similarly the coder who accomplishes the project 
> > could assign the karma to either other coding projects they are 
> > interested in or to art work they would be interested in having done.
> >
> > As long as all contributions are of an 'open' license nature, then I 
> > think it could be a win win all around.
> >
> > Do you think this would be worthwhile to do?
> >
> > Tom M.
> > LetterRip
> >
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