free stuff

[flakmonkey]

anyone interested?
http://www.the3dstudio.com/product_search.aspx?id_author=130948

who knows maybe someone will find a use for them.
only available in .mb format as .obj format files are just too darn large (at least 4x the original size usually!)

[Novak]

Thanks for sharing the link with us... looks nice....


Greetz, Novak

[pete.cook]

That's extremely generous of you flak. Hats off to you.:salute:

[Airborne]

Very generous, and your models are superb.

[Skyraider3D]

Very generous or utterly crazy! :D
You could have made a good few $$$ with those models, mate, allowing yourself to buy a new computer and make even more models ;)

Your Kubelwagen gives me a reason to make landing gear on my German planes from now on! :lol:

[flakmonkey]

id` have felt too guilty charging people for models i made just for fun.
+ 30% tax is just crazy, id rather give things away!

[Skyraider3D]

The problem is, other people won't feel too guilty of taking your free stuff and selling it for money or simply flogging them off as their own. Alvaro knows all about this and it leaves a real nasty feeling inside...
Also there's no need to feel guilty for selling models in which you invested hundreds of hours of your time.
Another thing to take into consideration is that freelancers who have to make a living out of this kind of modelling will have a hard time competing with your top notch free models! ;)
But I appreciate and admire your generosity! :)

[franken_johan]

Generous with capital G!

[Karras]

Thank you very much, Great Master Of Tanks :D
I hope that your Leopard it's there :D

[Alvaro]

Alvaro knows all about this and it leaves a real nasty feeling inside...

The Policarpov I-16 was blatantly used in a commercial publication, I can show scans if you want, but on the other hand it helped me to make contacts with people in that publication and right now I'm doing commitments for them.

For me it is an ended question.

I understand Ronnie's point of view as freelance doing ilustrations for books. This is a very difficult business to work in and some issues don't help too much, for example, editor's perception about how much this kind of work really costs.

I have some mixed opinions about that, I share Ronnie concerns but as Blender user I'm supposed to have open mind about that questions.

[pccdtk]

You are incredible generous ....I use only for myself as reference ....my concerns is : - do not renounce to model further
- anyone who intend to use your models mentioned you....

[mcmiller]

Yes, you're incredibly generous with releasing those meshes. I hope those who use them give you appropriate credit.

[krazycolin]

really... i might do that... when i bite it...

[crowbar]

is it me or has the link been pulled from the site

[Buelliful]

is it me or has the link been pulled from the site

Nope, not just you Crowbar. I get the same thing happening.

[Karras]

I wait for that occasion Krazycolin ,because your models enchant to me ;)

Next week maybe ? :lol:

[krazycolin]

They are pulled.... too bad.... didn't get the chance to check em out...

if my models enchant you, Karras... i'm gonna be watching my back from now on!!!!....


paranoia isn't just for paranoiacs....

[Karras]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yes,yes,yes, you send my your models for my collect and i will be eternally thankfull :lol: :lol:

Now in serious.
I interchange my models with other friends for my big collection of 3D, but non commercial uses. I'm not professional of 3D, only a hobby :)
Best regards

[flakmonkey]

yup, sorry ive pulled them,
i got a realy nasty bunch of emails from folk telling me i had no right to offer my models for free and i was making it harder for legitimate sellers to make money!
so i thought better of it and deleted them,

[pete.cook]

Sorry to hear about the emails flak. IMHO you have every right to offer them for free if you so wish. They are your meshes to do with as you wish. Maybe if someone with your skill was offering good meshes for free, then people wouldn't be getting ripped off buying some of those incredibly poor meshes out there.

[krazycolin]

yeah Flak... seems a bit... I dunno.... silly.... I certainly wouldn't have sent you an email telling you to stop...

Who are these legitmate sellers anyway? In fact... I think you should post the names of those people so that we can all avoid buying anything from them in the future. They are sad, sad jerks... (can I say that and not get banned??)... I firmly believe that you are free to do what you wish with your porperty and no one has the right to tell you different.

Maybe it would be a good idea to have a section of free stuff on this stuff... that way, no one in the future will have this problem...

[pete.cook]

Would have no problem with hosting them here. (When we eventually get back to normal:))

[Spinner]

No good deed goes unpunished, eh?;)

[Buelliful]

yup, sorry ive pulled them,
i got a realy nasty bunch of emails from folk telling me i had no right to offer my models for free and i was making it harder for legitimate sellers to make money!
so i thought better of it and deleted them,

Crikey! You can't do right by some people eh? If you want to do that you should be allowed.
Sorry to hear you got some "Flak" flak for that, it's a pretty poor show.

I understand your position however and your decision. :salute:

[krazycolin]

No good deed goes unpunished, eh?;)

That's it in a nutshell... sucks big time to be told you can't do something cause others are afraid... besides... exactly how much do you make on a tank? not much... there are places on the net where you can buy a Tiger 1 or 2 for 40 bucks.. .and they are pretty good.. (not at the same level as yours, Flak)... so i wonder what prompts these "villains" to do what they did....????

[krazycolin]

Would have no problem with hosting them here. (When we eventually get back to normal:))


who knows... i might even let one of mine go on... like maybe... the Nimitz... or the M1A1.... possibly the Reagan... JUST KIDDING!!!!!....

seriously though... it's not a bad idea to have something like that....

thanks Pete,

[Skyraider3D]

yup, sorry ive pulled them,
i got a realy nasty bunch of emails from folk telling me i had no right to offer my models for free and i was making it harder for legitimate sellers to make money!
so i thought better of it and deleted them,Sorry to hear mate... I was kind of expecting there would be trouble for you in the long run (not this soon though!!!).
As Pete says, plenty of people sell crap for too much money. But also some people do try to make a living of it and you indeed touched a soft spot there clearly! :)
Either way, from experience I have learnt that giving things away for free hardly ever pays off. Sounds silly, but I am sure you know what I mean. It just comes back to bite you in the ass and nobody really needs that hassle.
What you can do is host them on your own website (if you have one) and that way get plenty of visitors in. A few sellers may be upset, but tons of users will love your stuff.
All in all, you'd do yourself a massiev favour by putting them back up and putting a realistic but attractive price tag on them. That way everybody benefits, including serious buyers and your wallet. You deserve it, no matter if it was just a hobby and a bit of fun for you :)

[Karras]

In concrete, I collect models 3d, for my personal use and I prefer to change the ones that have provided to obtain good models of other colleagues, in order to having a good one coleccion, but not for commercial use.
Maybe, there be people that can use your material for commercial use, that is the bad to give it free in places as that, that then do not you control your models. On the other hand exchanging them .... but confidence. Sorry for my poor english ;)

[Spinner]

Either way, from experience I have learnt that giving things away for free hardly ever pays off. Sounds silly, but I am sure you know what I mean. It just comes back to bite you in the ass and nobody really needs that hassle.
What you can do is host them on your own website (if you have one) and that way get plenty of visitors in. A few sellers may be upset, but tons of users will love your stuff.


Agreed, human nature doesnt value what it gets free.
I learnt that if I gave a Bonsai away it'd be dead inside 3 months. Charge a whack for it and it'd be cared for for years.

[Neraxus]

:eek: Darn just a smidgit to late! Okay well maybe more then a smidgit...

Though, I wouldn't mind knowing what the models were of.

Anyone?

[flakmonkey]

pretty much every tank here was up for free...
http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=flakmonkey

i would have posted a link to my stuff on MM, alas the crash wiped it all out :(

[Neraxus]

OH man, i would love to get my hands on some of those WW2 ones, well pritty much all of the WW2 ones :D ...

I sent you a private msg :D :D :D

[Northwatch]

pretty much every tank here was up for free...
http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=flakmonkey

i would have posted a link to my stuff on MM, alas the crash wiped it all out :(

Renderosity seems to have changes things around, your stuff is not coming up through this link. I have broadband and now it takes forever to move through Renderosity pages.

[flakmonkey]

hmm strange, r`osity can be a little wierd like that if your not logged on. your not missing much really.
you could try logging into r`osity and just searching for flakmonkey, but as with all things there lately it`ll take an age!

[flakmonkey]

alrighty then, they`ve moved server since last week.
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?browse&user_id=140290
should get you there!

[Spinner]

That link should have a health warning.
Totally ego shattering.
I console myself with the thought that a C-spring carriage should have an axle link beam or two.

[Aceman]

Sorry! BTW - if you had a FTP with military-meshes.com and you would like it back please contact one of the various admins here.

Aceman

[mikala]

Wow sad how a talent like yours is attacked by the insecure.
Looked at your gallery fine work.

[SD_DoolittleRaider]

Wow...awesome work.

[mikeb]

Both very good of you to have had offered your work out like that, and very good work it is that you do too!

Brilliant stuff, do you have a website?

[flakmonkey]

nope no website, i had one ages ago but it was too much trouble to keep up to date.

[cobra6]

Awesome gallery up there :)

Cobra 6

[Big Red 11]

I couldn't find any military equipment on renderosity.

[vkirchner]

I see that I got here too late for the freebies also. Would you mind sharing how you created the various textures used for the renderings? Even that would be something worth hearing about.

Thanks
Vince

[flakmonkey]

a small selection of my models are available at the token price of $1 over at turbosquid.com if anyones interested (not quite free i know),
the direct link to my products on the site is too long to post so just search for flakmonkey at turbosquid (should give 3 results)

vkirchner- to be honest i dont really have much of a method, my texturing usually just comes together as a kind of happy accident, and involves much trial & error.

[vkirchner]

Well at least you an I have one thing in common, we both have accidents, mine are not usually happy. LOL! Do you work mainly from photographs to create your textures, or do you use procedurals? They are fantastic, matching your models very well. I have looked at the Renderosity site also at your work, very impressive display. I will just have to continue to aspire.

Bowing Humbly
Vince

[jiverson]

Anybody know how to convert from mb to 3ds? or better yet C4D??
Thanks Flakmonkey!!

[Skyraider3D]

Look for a program called 3D Exploration. It can convert many types of 3D formats.

[mikeb]

Unfortunatly i have both c4d and 3d exploration and though it says it can import C4D i still havent found a file old enough for it to be able to read C4D is no on 9.6 and even going back to ver 6.. 3D expl. doesn't read C4D..

The good news is that to transfer a maya file to C4D is quite easy, save it in maya as an .obj file, which loads into C4d..

[Skyraider3D]

OBJ indeed is a fairly universal file format and accepted by most programs.

[Wyrmshadow]

What if we don't have Maya and my 3dexploration won't read it? Is there a Maya plugin for 3dsmax?

[flakmonkey]

my apologies for not being able to post them as .obj files, i tried but the file sizes were too massive for turbosquid to host,

i guess could upload them as .fbx files, thats a pretty universal format. almost every app has an fbx import plugin, it was designed for motionbuilder and is a million times better than obj.

let me know....

[Hans]

Hi flakmonkey,
if it's o.k. for you to share the files completely free on the web then my suggestion would be to set up a .torrent file. This way you're not limited by filesize or hosts like turbosuid.

greetings,
Hans

[jiverson]

Well, fbx would work for me...
If you're going to give them away, why not donate them to MilMesh?
Maybe they could host them?? Just a thought.
Thank you,
Jamie

[flakmonkey]

i would be happy to donate them to milMesh (didnt think they hosted files though?),
The only reason theyre not free right now is because it annoyed other vendors who were selling similar products and so they were given a token price to appease the angry masses.

an interesting sidenote- for my shockingly expensive $1 models over at turbosquid, 80% of that $1 goes on taxes and comission, & after exchange rates i get around 11p per model!

[Wyrmshadow]

I did the same for some of my models....$1 each, and Turbosquid changed the prices to $30-something.

[roshent]

Just curious flakmonkey, do you actually sell anything through Turbosquid?

[kiwi123]

i would be happy to donate them to milMesh (didnt think they hosted files though?),

I'll raise the idea with the other mods, personally I think it's great.

[flakmonkey]

roshent- yup i do sell a few (about 20 sales so far)

kiwi123- freeky avatar, that has to be the scariest cat ever!

[Karras]

Hey FlakMonkey.

I buy One, your Challenger :D

It's perfect, man. I'm waiting for your next model.

Remember that you STRV-103 it's unfinished, and , by now, it's best that mine :lol:

I hope that you make one Merkava IV or M-1 A3 Abrams or a Chieftain will be very well .

[roshent]

roshent- yup i do sell a few (about 20 sales so far)

Gee, didn't figure that. Are the customers mostly in the Poser community??

[flakmonkey]

roshent- people mostly buy them to use as parts for their own models,
i doubt many Poser folks use them as they would need to convert them to obj to work with poser + poser work doesnt contain many tanks from what i can see, mostly naked women etc ;)

karras- well i could post my strv103 if it were finished, in fact its still pretty much the same as it was when i posted the wip image.

[JetwasH]

Nice to see you were sharing Flak, Dont see too much of that these days.
I make skins for a game a few of us are working on. Been a few years now, All for free, But the payoff for me is playing the game ;) Thankyou
"btw its a modern flight sim so no i havent ripped off your models hehe" ;)

[Nils]

Your Kubelwagen gives me a reason to make landing gear on my German planes from now on! :lol:

Interesting... :lol:

And a very generous act to share your artworks!

(BTW there should be a way to "lock" or weld a model whilst finished, so it couldn't be broken up again later by others. More like keep it as a frozen object.. )