Is it legal?

[asbj0813]

Okay, first of all, excuse me if I'm in the wrong forum. Second, pardon my rusty english, it really needs to be brushed up :biggrin: Next is the question I wan't to ask you. You see, for a long time, I've wanted to tryout a little experiment. I would like to see, if some assets from Oblivion(more specific the Ayleid ruins) can be used for Skyrim. The way I wan't to do this is by extracting the original meshes and textures(not those made by other authers, but completely vanilla) and put them into the new creation kit. I've been wanting for a couple of weeks to use these oblivion assets to create new dungeons and stuff for a Skyrim mod.

 

But on to the actual question: Is it legal? Does this site(and the law) allow modders to use objects from previous Bethesda games for their own mods? The reason I'm asking is, that I don't want to go ahead and put a lot of effort into a mod, that can't be uploaded to this site because of copyrighting issues. So before jumping into it, I wan't to know whether it is greenlit, or a no-go project. I fully respect the descission(besides, I can find plenty of other things to do with the already-present items in the Skyrim Creation Kit), and I won't, in any way argue about it. I'm just curious.

 

Thank you for taking your time to read this.

[M48A5]

This article should answer your questions: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/377405-porting-content-from-other-games/

[asbj0813]

Thank you for your quick answer.

 

I already knew that porting assets from games like WoW was illegal, but I just didn't know if that included games made by Bethesda, since I have heard about games like Morroblivion(which was also mentioned in the article) and a mod for Skyrim involving a Plasma Pistol from Fallout. But I won't take any chances :tongue:

 

Once again, you have my gratitude for replying so fast :thumbsup: