Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
SPAZ started it off by porting the DC dump truck to Hell Alamein V3
I modified an old Hitachi EH1700 i've had for over a year in an upcoming map by TeaBag and I called "The Quarry". The original GTA:VC model was by Frederic Zanella.
If you wanna add to the fad, here's the criteria Big or Small, it's still a dump truck and has to be a dump truck however, it also has to be able to "take a dump" as well, we need to know where it's gonna be used
these are the only 3 required criteria, but be as creative as you possibly can
let's see what wild and crazy things you guys can do
btw, i'm too used to the old-style poll creation system, which is why there's 2 "LEEROY JENKINS"s and go ahead and post your opinions, this isn't strictly an entry-only thing
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the author gave me full permission to use the model. it's like you're saying i'm shoplifting an item i just purchased. if i had not been able to get a reply from the original creator, i would've given him credit anyway upon release. if nobody could make custom anything without original author permission, hardly any custom shit would exist. even if they did manage to contact the original creator, only about 25% of those would be able to be made either. giving the aythor credit upon release is another clear way to show that you didn't make whatever it was, but simply modified or converted it, and that the original creator was in fact the one who made it. do you see where i'm going with this? if stealing was what you said it was, there would only be about 1/10th of the amount of custom stuff there is now. stealing, model-wise would be simply to take someone else's model or any work whatsoever and claim it entirely as your own. i have never done that, therefore i am not a thief. this is a community, not a factory. get over it.
Registered Member #727 Joined: [ 10:25 ] [ 12 Nov 2004 ]
Using with permission is OK, but if you cannot reach the original author of whatever you want to use, you have to assume that he did not give you permission to use it, no matter whether you give him credit or not. Some creators might not have a problem with this, but you cannot assume that. Copyright law is very clear about this.
well i guess i'll have to quit converting then and just go back to playing. it'll most likely jeopardize the fate of a number of quality maps in progress, but if it makes things right, then i guess the community could do without quarry, area 51, or another classified map in progress, since i couldn't reach the authors for the majority of the models used in them.
dude im with rubba on this and looking forward to those maps alot its only a game and i doubt the model creators have got copyright protection on the models or will even find out.
Registered Member #727 Joined: [ 10:25 ] [ 12 Nov 2004 ]
The "not find out"-part is the one you should hope for. Everything is copyright protected, unless the author explicitly puts it in the public domain (or the copyright has expired, which it absolutely hasn't). As long as he doesn't, he decides what others may do with the model. He doesn't need to give explicit personal permission, if he says on the page you got that model from that converting it is allright then you're allowed to do it. There is no need to do anything to get copyright, not even a copyright notice, everything (technically even the posts on this forum) that is new enough automatically has copyright (the US law used to be different, but that changed years ago).
I'm still looking forward to play the maps Rubba is working on, I just wanted to point out why it's risky to use models without the original author's explicit consent.