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Is it legal to share access with someone during a collaboration?

RitaCelesteRitaCeleste Posts: 625
edited August 2016 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Basicly I know a guy who is older and on the spectrum. His father has lung cancer. He has an education in computers and a background in art. I would like to see if we could work on projects together hopefully for the marketplace. I asked him a while back and he said the cost of the software made it prohibative for him because he is unemployed and broke. I'd like to help him. Is it legal for me to share access to my files for the purpose of learning and collaboration on products?

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  • Cris PalominoCris Palomino Posts: 11,700

    For learning Studio, you really wouldn't need to work with more than those things which are already free to Studio users.  The Essential packs for the base figures, there are many things in the freebies available at the Daz store.  You could always pay him by getting him gift cards with which he could purchase products at the Daz store if he so desired.  Look for the sales they regularly have on gift cards and you can actually give him a bit more.

  • RitaCelesteRitaCeleste Posts: 625
    edited August 2016

     

    Cris He could work on scripts and utilities with what is in Daz studio. He could make morphs with blender. But to make a character he'd need the head and body morphs pack at the very least plus some skin textures. We don't need to both have photoshop elements etc. Modeling, there are other options for that. No one in the marketplace seems to be working only with freestuff, I am guessing it would be hard to compete if that's all we could do. The daz expenses would be minimal but there is modeling and skinning and post work etc to consider. I have photoshop elements, I own Carrara, I would love to play in Marvelous Designer for a month or two a year etc. Its my money but if my friend is helpful on the computer at my house, its not illegal. If I am going to spend for Marvelous Designer for a few months, we'd go in there with a pile of sketches and patterns and work like demons! It would only be illegal if I shared the whole files or my own personal log in info. and things started traveling out of my house. Rather than a no, the real answer was a yes with reasonable restrictions. Thank you so very much. I was kinda hoping a few joint projects and he could start buying what he needs himself and strike out on his own. But I am leaving it alone so he can spend precious time with his dad right now, there will be time for the rest when and if he is ready. Me on the other hand will be smoking ecigs and shopping at Daz as much as possible!!!! I might even make something good enough to share oneday all by myself, ya never know!

     

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  • Cris PalominoCris Palomino Posts: 11,700
    RitaCeleste said:

     

    Cris He could work on scripts and utilities with what is in Daz studio. He could make morphs with blender. But to make a character he'd need the head and body morphs pack at the very least plus some skin textures.

    I thought we were discussing him helping to teach you.  For the purposes of teaching you, that can be done with Studio and, as was presented, with the freely available essential and other packs.  If you're talking about him making products as a vendor, he can still do that without the assistance of morph pack and other skins.  The essential packs come with a skin, so you do not have to have others.  As far as morphs, many vendors make their own morphs and do not rely on morph packs.  Using morph packs (that allow merchant use) must make the product dependent on the use of these morph packs, in most cases, and some merchants do not want this reliance.

    RitaCeleste said:

    We don't need to both have photoshop elements etc. Modeling, there are other options for that. No one in the marketplace seems to be working only with freestuff, I am guessing it would be hard to compete if that's all we could do.

    This is just not a correct statement.  There are many who just work with the base figures.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,805

    There are also vendors who use, or used for a long time, the free Blender and Gimp for their creation tools.

  • RitaCelesteRitaCeleste Posts: 625

    I love Gimp. I am not a modeler but I have poked around in blender and it can do a lot. I also like twisted brush, not free but cheaper than painter for a usable pro version. I am just going to let him know my door is open and get about some projects I have wanted to do for a long time. I would like to texture Dreampaint's old stuff with Iray shaders, I want to get my V4 shoes on G3, learn to make shaders. You either have time and no money or money and no time. If he isn't working, he has nothing but time to master new tools. Whatever he does, he'll need to find out what works for him personally. But I agree things can be done on a budget. I did quite a bit of freestuff collecting just tonight. (I know I am just making more work for me when I do this! Now I get to organize it.)

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