Taboo?

[Formula_1]

Hi all

Is this considered improper?
Downloading a freeware model  from this site (or any other freeware site). Load that model into gmax and study it?
I do not mean use any part of it. Only to study how it was created, etc?
Can a freeware model be changed, such as more detailed VC, etc? Only for practice, of course.

I understand no one should use anything from someone else's work and claim it as their own. That is certainly a no-no. So I would never try to offer any piece of someone else's work. My concerns have nothing to do with releasing of another's works, modified or not. Unless the designer allows it.

I believe it would be helpful to see a complete model in gmax and to be able to look at it's design closely.

I am only interested in using a model to help me learn from. I just don't know how the community feels about doing such.

[Katahu]

Well, for starters, there's not a snowball's chance in hell that anyone would even have the resources to edit a compiled *.mdl file. And I'm serious. Because a *.mdl file is compiled and completely hard-coded when put together by either Gmax or FSDS or any other 3D program, no one can open it.

And I mean 'absolutely no one'. You'll have to ask the author for the source file of the model [eith a Gmax or FSDS source file] and edit it from there. However, that's IF the author in question even agrees to lend you A source file.

[Formula_1]

Ok thanks

I had not tried, I was playing around with the tutorials and thought;

I wanted to ask first. I hope to get into the add-on scene sometime, so I wanted to make sure I followed proper etiquette

It is good to know they are so well protected.

[Felix/FFDS]

On the other hand, all is not lost.  Some of the finer gmax models (eg. Milton's excellent offerings, for example) are available to download, study and modify.

Simviation offers a bunch of "orphan" source files ready for some willing soul to adopt and finish.

Welcome to the madness...

[Formula_1]

Thanks Felix

I will check into them. I think they might be very helpful.

[microlight]

Hi Formula-1,

You can also get the source code for George Carty's Gmax 707 on Avsim, if you want to study how a big plane model is put together.

[Formula_1]

Hi Formula-1,

You can also get the source code for George Carty's Gmax 707 on Avsim, if you want to study how a big plane model is put together.

Hi
Thanks.
I am interested in everything right now, lol.
Actually a big complex plane is something that must hold many areas of valuable information. I'm sure it is way over my head at this point, but I imagine I will pick up some good clues about things from one. I will give it a look this weekend.