I hope you got permission from him or her to import that into Trainz
Just a thought about 3DWarehouse stuff making its way onto the DLS via RubyTMIX. There is the potential for many copies of the same item ending up on the DLS via different "authors", thus causing some confusion when included in published routes and so on.
Now I'm not suggesting that any form of restriction should be applied, I'm not even sure if this would be a real issue, I was just wondering if anybody else had considered this and had any ideas as to how it might be avoided or minimised.
My only thought was that, before putting a 3DW item on the DLS a budding publisher should check to see if the items already been uploaded. This would only really be viable if the item could be readily identified on the DLS in some way. I think there used to be some form of "custom" tag that could be added to a config.txt file, if that's still available it might be useful.
It was actually not my intention that people would simply flood the DLS with straight conversions from the 3D warehouse. What I had hoped would happen is that people would download the models from there, then
apply the necessary extra steps to make them efficient in Trainz,
then put them on the DLS. Also we should, of course, remember to acknowledge the author and the warehouse itself as the original source of the model... although not 'required' by Google it is certainly proper etiquette; and I do get the sense that Google wants to see that anyway, whether they say so or not.
Originally Posted by
johnwhelan 
Just a comment on textures unless you took the photograph yourself you need explicit permission to use these. Just because its on the web doesn't mean you have permission from the copyright holder.
Cheerio John
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