Contours Retopology for Blender:

Contours is a new re- topology tool written as a new Add On for Blender. This new tool is new and is being developed by a small team, even though the utility is very promising it is a vulgar copy of Modo’s contour tool.

Beside that, they are selling it to the public ! Hiding themselves saying  " FUNDS TO KEEP THE PROJECT ALIVE" , what really astonish  the community is that Jonathan Williamson is behind this fraud.

Lets see what he has answered at Blender Nation when people started to complain about this illegal practice:


robocop on August 1, 2013 at 6:53 pm said:

Forgot to say this is a bad copy of Modo’s contour tool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy_WqBuOpHk


Jonathan Williamson on August 1, 2013 at 6:57 pm said:

Modo’s contour tool was part of the initial inspiration but it’s in no way, at least not intentionally, a copy.

Jonathan Williamson on August 2, 2013 at 12:15 am said:

Not to mention, we’ve have to have access to the source code. Which we don’t. I can’t speak for Patrick, but I don’t even have a copy of Modo.

SHOULD I LAUGH or CRY ?

well well,  THE COPY WAS MADE UNINTENTIONALLY ? CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT ?

I DO NOT HAVE A COPY OF MODO? So didn't he say that the original inspiration was modo? Now he does not even have a copy of it? So Telepathy? 

That sounds like: At least I did not steal it intentionally !

PLUS: Charging $30 for something that isn't his creation is way off of being legal. That is stealing intellectual property.

However they are so clever that same users pile on each other contributing to this illegal act, just read:

basroil2 on August 2, 2013 at 4:22 am said:

By the same argument you use, Ubuntu is an illegal ripoff of Windows and OSX. As modo 701 (which is the only version that has a similar tool) is closed source and proprietary, they are not covered against parallel development. Their copyright starts at the source code and ends at the binary; copyright does not give protections over the functional components of a program (unless the only way to write a necessary and unique function is your code, which any programmer can tell you is impossible)
Since modo has not attempted to patent surface generation by contour loops during re-topology, they have no legal protections against someone developing a very similar or even identical tool as long as that development was “from scratch” (i.e. not looking at the original source code). And even that tool wasn’t the original, simply an improvement upon existing retopology tools.


SO THE MENTALITY OF THIS TEAM IS CLEARLY THIS: IF SOMEONE DOES IT, I CAN DO IT TOO ! This is very very SAD !

Beside it, they are now realizing of their own mistakes, asking to please REMOVE MY COMMENTS,they know it is way illegal, no one wants to get involved now, simply put guys: DO NOT COPY COPYRIGHT MATERIAL, MUCH LESS TRY TO SELL IT !


Chrome Monkey on August 2, 2013 at 3:57 pm said:

(I hadn’t yet seen the YouTube comments, but when I saw the personal blog that he plugged here, I realized just what kind of bad news he was, far beyond a garden variety troll. Thank you for taking up the good fight here.)

Chrome Monkey on August 2, 2013 at 4:31 pm said:

(Bart, can you please remove my above comment? I have decided I don’t want to represent myself in that manner.)

Bart on August 4, 2013 at 6:04 pm said:

Prove it: give us a link to the patent.
So far, all you do is scream bloody murder without providing a shred of evidence.
Giving your opinion is one thing, but all you do is accuse people. You’d better be sure of what you’re saying.
Prove it, or stop trolling.

harris3d on August 4, 2013 at 8:09 pm said:

You get upset BART, you know that is illegal, that is a vulgar copy of MODO, everyone knows it. You as many others get mad, but do you think no one was going to realized of it? Did you guys really think so ?
The Patent ? You need a link to the patent ? Is that your best shot to defend something that has been vulgar copy of MODO CONTOURS TOOL ? and still selling it? Where am I accusing people? Read above that’s the only statement, you must be drunk when you wrote this.
Give me a brake, you must thank God that you are not a lawyer !


IN FACT PEOPLE GET UPSET WHEN THEY GET CAUGHT ! SIMPLY GRAB MODO AND COMPARE IT WITH THAT CONTOURS RETOPOLOGY, AND TELL US IF IT IS NOT THE SAME THING !  COINCIDENCE? I DO NOT THINK SO, AND MANY WONT EITHER, WE ARE WORKING ON IT. PLUS CHARGING $30 IS REALLY BAD !