Posted 17 February 2014 - 11:50 AM

SUBWAYJAROD, on 17 February 2014 - 11:41 AM, said:

As far as legality goes, their models have been available to everyone that has the skill to extract them. If there were serious legal issues then something would've been done by now.



The use of these models is for non-commercial use only and if that's put on a checkbox agreement or a README file in the download then I believe that would suffice.



But if you're using the extraction process as a filter for those without the desire or abilities (which doesn't seem to be) then I suppose the number of people who could misuse the files would be decreased?



I don't want to jeopardize the thread (or my game account for that matter) by distributing .blend files of the models. Besides, having access to the .blend file without knowledge on how to use Blender really doesn't do anyone any good. I've made it as easy as possible to do this, and made some pretty nifty tutorial videos as well. Just a couple of intro courses of Blender at cgcookie.com/blender and an hour of watching the tutorial video, and then not only will someone have their own .blend files, but they'll have the knowledge needed to actually do something with them.There is a significant legal difference between telling someone how to access the files, and providing them directly. Just not worth the risk.