Evermotion Scenes?

[redmond1502]

Hi all,

 

I'm looking to quickly demonstrate architectural lighting products in various indoor and outdoor scenes for my company. It would be a huge benefit to use already created photorealistic scenes and merge in my 3DS Max IES light assemblies.

 

Question: What is the copyright/royalty situation with Evermotion archinteriors and archexteriors? i.e. can I modify, render and republish these scenes if I've purchased them?

 

For example, I'd like to create a product guide showing different scenarios, but I'm not sure if archinteriors and archexteriors are for educational purposes only.

 

Thanks

[Guest percydaman]

Why not ask at evermotion's forum? Nothing like getting it straight from the horse's mouth eh?

[redmond1502]

Thanks I've tried posting in their forum and contacting them directly, but no answer.

[Guest percydaman]

http://www.evermotion.org/comm/ae01/archexteriors_vol_1.pdf

 

According to this, you can use it for anything you want, as long as you don't resell any of the objects found in the scene.

[redmond1502]

Ah, thanks -- I missed that section of text. Perfect...

[redmond1502]

Hmm.. Says the models can be used for commercial purposes. Doesn't say 'scenes' but it seems that's what they intend?

[Stephen Thomas]

Their marketing blurb for these series pretty much describes it as a ready made portfolio, so I can't see it being a problem.

[TheAllusionisst]

Their marketing blurb for these series pretty much describes it as a ready made portfolio...........................

 

Yes it does and doesn't anyone have a problem with this:

 

"Take a look at this 10 fully textured scenes with professional shaders and ligthing ready to render. Get your own portfolio and join cg market."

 

P.S. I have nothing against Evermotion, they are great, but this "Ready Made Portfolio" mentality does bother me.

Edited July 29, 2008 by Russell L. Thomas

[redmond1502]

I understand this viewpoint and my boss used the term "clip art" as well. The situation with me is that I'm trying to start a visualization group within my company where my primary role is technical writing. If I spend too much time on 3D modeling, texturing, lighting and rendering then I wont have time for my main responsibilities. However, I have experience with 3DS Max going back to 2001 and can render effectively with Vray. If I can steer my company in the direction of using 3D renders to visualize products in 'real environments', then perhaps I can justify devoting a larger chunk of my time to creating models, textures, etc. from scratch (or hire additional staff). So far I've convinced my company to purchase 3D software, but haven't justified devoting a large portion of my time (a lot of people don't realize how intricate 3D work can be).

 

Using Evermotion scenes to accurately 'demo' my company's architectual lighting products in various conditions would be really useful. I'm trying to think of the models as essentialy a showroom where the focus is on the products and their features, not the display setup.

Edited July 29, 2008 by redmond1502

[Nic H]

Id think about finding some reference photos of simple spaces or scenes you like and get the modelling / texturing outsourced somwhere cheaply - that way you have control and a simple quality environment to display your products in.

 

You can spot evermotion a mile off and it will really degrade the quality of the products you are trying to display and would look very amateur imo.