The licence

You are buying a licence to use the asset, not ownership of it. Darksteady retains copyright in every model, texture and source file. The licence is granted to one individual or one organisation — whoever the purchase was made for — and it does not expire.

You may incorporate the asset into games, films, television, animation, architectural and product visualisation, simulations, virtual and augmented reality, and printed or rendered still imagery.

You may do this in an unlimited number of projects, commercial or otherwise, with no revenue share and no additional payment however successful that work becomes.

You may modify the asset in any way — remesh, retopologise, retexture, rescale, recombine — and you may use those modified versions on the same terms.

You may share the files internally among people working for the buying organisation, and you may pass them to a contractor who is working on your project, provided they use them only for your project and do not retain them afterwards.

The licence is perpetual. Work you have shipped stays licensed permanently, and this remains true if the store ceases trading.

You may not resell, sublicense, rent, lend or otherwise redistribute the asset itself, in original or modified form, as a standalone item or as part of an asset pack, template, kit or marketplace listing.

You may not include the asset in a machine-learning or generative-AI training dataset, or use it to train, fine-tune or evaluate a generative model.

You may not mint the asset as, or include it within, a non-fungible token.

You may not publish the source files anywhere they can be downloaded by others, including public repositories, file-sharing services and Discord servers.

You may not claim to be the author of the original asset, or register any part of it as your own intellectual property.

The overall test is simple: the asset may be *used* in your work without limit, but the asset itself may not be *passed on*.

Assets are sold at two price points. Both grant identical rights — the tier reflects the size of the buying business, not what may be done with the asset.

Personal applies where the buyer's commercial activity grossed less than $100,000 over the previous twelve months. Professional applies at or above that figure. The tier is self-declared at checkout.

If your revenue crosses the threshold after a purchase, that purchase remains valid and no further payment is due. The tier is assessed once, at the moment of buying.

Some assets offer the Substance Painter project file as a paid add-on. It carries the same permissions and the same restrictions as the asset itself: use it to re-author textures for your own work, but do not redistribute it. Textures you bake from it are covered exactly as the asset is.

The project file (.spp) was saved in Adobe Substance 3D Painter and opens in that version or a newer one. You need your own licence for Substance 3D Painter to open it; the application is not included and we cannot supply it. The project uses standard materials and smart materials from Painter's own library; your use of those is governed by your Adobe licence, and they may not be extracted from the project and passed on separately.

Blender .blend source files are included with packs. The same terms apply.

Because these are digital files delivered immediately, the right of withdrawal is given up at the point of delivery, and you are asked to confirm this at checkout before anything is sent. The withdrawal page carries the full statutory notice and a model form; the refunds page says when a refund is given anyway.

If you are buying as a consumer, nothing in this licence limits your statutory rights — including your rights when an asset turns out to be defective, which last far longer than any refund window and cannot be waived by anything you tick.

For the purposes of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and § 39c of the Czech Copyright Act, we expressly reserve the right to carry out text and data mining of every asset, preview, render and page published on this site. The statutory exception permitting mining of lawfully accessible works does not apply to this content.

This reservation is published in machine-readable form at /.well-known/tdmrep.json and as a tdm-reservation directive on every page, in accordance with the W3C TDM Reservation Protocol.

It is a reservation of mining for the purpose of training, fine-tuning or evaluating models. It is not a restriction on search engines or AI assistants reading these pages in order to describe, index or recommend the catalogue — that is welcome, and the site is deliberately open to it.

Every asset sold here is the original work of the person operating Darksteady: modelled, optimised, UV-unwrapped and textured by hand. Nothing in the catalogue is resold from a third-party marketplace or taken from a generated asset library.

We warrant that we hold the rights we are granting you, and that granting them infringes nobody else's rights. If that ever turns out to be wrong about an asset you have bought, tell us — we will deal with it, and clause 12 of the terms says what you are entitled to.

This licence operates as a contract between us as well as a grant of copyright permissions. That distinction works in your favour: the restrictions in clause 3 bind you because you agreed to them, so neither of us has to litigate the scope of copyright in an individual mesh to know what may and may not be done with it.

This licence may be revised for future purchases. Any revision applies only from the date it is published — the terms you bought under continue to govern everything you have already bought.