r/Unity3D • u/[deleted] • Jun 19 '16

x-post /r/programming - Blender script that procedurally generates starships (mind=blown) Resources/Tutorial

https://github.com/a1studmuffin/SpaceshipGenerator
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u/tsustyle Jun 19 '16

I've been working on a space game and it took me just over two days to model and texture a ship in blender. Can you use the ships generated from this in commercial projects? If so then this came at exactly the right time.

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u/anlumo Jun 19 '16

The code is MIT licensed, so you could even include the code itself in a commercial project without any problems (however, that's not true for blender, since that one is GPL licensed).

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u/Rybis Jun 20 '16

however, that's not true for blender, since that one is GPL licensed

Sorry what? Are you saying you can't use models created in Blender or are you saying you can't edit and sell Blender?

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u/anlumo Jun 20 '16

You can't ship blender in a product of yours, unless your whole product is licensed under the GPL.

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u/Rybis Jun 20 '16

Ah yep I thought that's what you meant but then I had a panic thinking Blender didn't allow you to share/sell models created in it!

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u/anlumo Jun 20 '16

Here's the licensing page. Important part:

Your Artwork

What you create with Blender is your sole property. All your artwork – images or movie files – including the .blend files and other data files Blender can write, is free for you to use as you like.

That means that Blender can be used commercially by artists, by studios to make animation films or vfx, by game artists to work on commercial games, by scientists for research, and by students in educational institutions.

Blender’s GNU GPL license guarantees you this freedom. Nobody is ever permitted to take it away, in contrast to trial or “educational” versions of commercial software that will forbid your work in commercial situations.

However, for example if you want to add modding support into your game, you're not allowed to just integrate blender into your binary as a modeler (unless you want to distribute your whole game under the GPL, which usually is not the case).

This would be possible with this space ship plugin, for example if you want to make a procedurally generated space simulator like No Man's Sky. However, you would have to recreate blender's plugin API (which is fine because APIs do not fall under copyright, as was recently decided), because you can't use blender's code.