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How are objects created in the first place? If I like your object, can I just make another one that looks exactly the same?
by cosarara 8y ago
How are objects created in the first place? If I like your object, can I just make another one that looks exactly the same?
- WJW 8y agoYes, but then you just trade time for gold again. The whole point was to get something without paying the "time" cost.
- egypturnash 8y agoBy using the simple in-game 3D modeller, or by using an external 3D modeller and importing meshes. Plus time writing or adapting scripts in SL's scripting language, if there's any interactivity needed. It is a similar amount of effort to what goes into making the equivalent object in a 3D game, and if you have the skills and the time, sure, clone other people's stuff, or make your own riffs on them!
- cosarara 8y agoWouldn't it be possible to rip the mesh of the existing object directly out of the game client's memory? And then import it again as a new (copyable) object.
- hhh 8y agoIn the SL world, this is called copybotting.
- Raph_Koster 8y agoThat would be because of a tool called CopyBot which came out in 2006. https://www.raphkoster.com/2006/11/15/copybot/ https://www.raphkoster.com/2006/11/15/copybot/
- Animats 8y agoYes, but if you try to sell it, that gets noticed, and the copier has DMCA problems. Also, scripting is entirely server side, so that's not copyable.