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Modified preset sharing

barbultbarbult Posts: 24,243
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I modified a material preset that came with a DAZ weekly free item. Basically I got rid of the mapped reflections and modified the surfaces to have nice real reflections. A few other tweaks were made, too. Another DAZ user would like to use the preset I created. I know meshes can't be shared, but I don't know about material presets. I modified and saved it in DS4.5, so it is a DUF file. Does anyone know the rules on this, or do I need to submit a help ticket to get an answer? Thanks.

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  • patience55patience55 Posts: 7,006
    edited December 1969

    I'm also interested in the answer to this. In my case it's that I purchased a .duf texture set which doesn't work of course in 4.0 so I remade the presets to .dsf files.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited December 1969

    If there are no textures involved, just the settings of how they are applied, I don't see why it wouldn't be 'redistributable'...

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,243
    edited December 1969

    mjc1016 said:
    If there are no textures involved, just the settings of how they are applied, I don't see why it wouldn't be 'redistributable'...

    So when the surface has a JPG file listed in the Diffuse Color, etc.,does the preset just have a pointer to the file in the user's runtime rather than the JPG file itself, making it OK to distribute the preset? The preset file I created is only 22KB, so it can't contain much.
  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited December 1969

    barbult said:
    mjc1016 said:
    If there are no textures involved, just the settings of how they are applied, I don't see why it wouldn't be 'redistributable'...

    So when the surface has a JPG file listed in the Diffuse Color, etc.,does the preset just have a pointer to the file in the user's runtime rather than the JPG file itself, making it OK to distribute the preset? The preset file I created is only 22KB, so it can't contain much.

    Yep...just the path to the file. It should be written as a 'relative' path, if memory serves, so if the file exists, then it will be found and used. If it doesn't exist, the preset may cough up an error, but it should still load

    Basically, most of the 'shaders' around are just presets, some with their own textures. And so are any 'third party' materials presets (which is essentially what you are creating)...

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    The jpg file itself is the intellectual property of the creator, whether it came with a freebie or a purchased product. As long as you are not sharing the jpg you should be fine, but will need to let people know that the new shader settings will not work unless people already "own" the original file.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,844
    edited December 1969

    To be safe you should probably be selective with the preset, storing only the settings you have changed, then the user can apply the original followed by your adjustments.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,243
    edited December 1969

    Thank you all for the guidance. I feel comfortable now that I will not be violating the EULA if I follow this advice.

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