protection for textures

[Aluviel Nakamura]

Hello designers,

 

I was wondering if there is a way to protect your textures from being copied? Makeups and the like? is there a certian type of format it neds to saved as and uploaded as?

 

Many thanks

[Cerise Sorbet]

Short answer is no.

Longer answer is that you can watermark stuff to help identify it after the fact.

One small consolation: with server side appearance, and the changes that led up to it over the last few years, someone actually has to buy a thing like makeup before they can make a successful copy. Ripping stuff off other avatars is limited to grabbing the whole baked avatar now.

 

[Aluviel Nakamura]

so I can rest easy if someone is wearing one of my skins then? Its watermarked ^^

[Cerise Sorbet]

A watermark could make things a little easier to prove if you have to do the DMCA dance some day, but it won't prevent a buyer from grabbing the textures. And honestly that is about as good as we can expect, even the fanciest DRM schemes out there all get cracked, usually sooner than later.