Seraching 3d models

[vince_1972]

Hello everybody,

i'm searching (for my own usage) a 3d model of a Porsche 996.

Someone to an idea?

Thanks and good journey

[mike.edel]

hi vince,

you will have a hard time finding any (at least on turbosquid) because of legal issues

(long) explanation: we have had difficulties in selling a ford car at turbosquid (basicly they asked us to remove it from the collection it was residing in)

when asking for a reason we got the answer that several car companies would object to the usage of their designs in commercial projects (at least in terms of selling them online)

basicly they (ford) consider the selling of their designs in the form of a 3d model as some kind of breach of copyright law (which it is given the fact that they have the copyright on the designs and you are using it without their consent)

so we asked turbosquid which other brands besides ford would be in a similar position (to avoid the same situation in the future)
the answer was porsche and some other brand i cant remember right now
turbosquid was quite reluctant to reveal additional details (i suppose they just dont want to stirr up too much attention to this as it would affect almost all kinds of designed objects that get translated to 3d models and sold on turbosquid - which would threaten their business model)

vw, bmw, mercedes and audi have never posed a problem though (might be ignorance on their part or they might be fine with it, don't know)

cya,

Mike

[Olli96]

try it here: http://www.3d02.com/

[Da_elf]

hehe i use my bmw all the time and even used it in an animation ones to blow it up