I love this site. Renderosity is a great source of information and products and I visit it almost every day. The only improvement I would strongly suggest to Renderosity is to beef up your Search Engine by adding advanced features for searching on specific fields. So many times I try to find something or other and get tons of stuff back that has nothing to do with what I'm looking for. Any one else have any constructive comments on how you'd like to see Renderosity improve it's Search Engine? :-)

that would be nice!

Agreed. It would also be good to distinguish whole words from parts of words. The search engine looks for anything containing the sequence of letters, so that a search for "tree" will also find trees, street, streets, treehouse, and so on. Sometimes that's the kind of search you want, but most often the exact word is wanted.

I was just looking for some stuff and gave up, slow modom, too many things to look through with the search. I'll spend the money some other time if the ad pops up.

Agreed! I tried a search for a gallery image but no way...

They're actually working on it right now as we speak. Clint posted this in the Merchants Forum - (Hope he doesn't mind me posting it here) Man - Does it ever stop? More goodness from the great programmers at Renderosity! We now support boolean full-text searchs in the MarketPlace! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marketplace Search Help -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Renderosity Marketplace utilizes boolean full-text search capability and supports the following operators: + A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in every row returned. - A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any row returned. By default (when neither plus nor minus is specified) the word is optional, but the rows that contain it will be rated higher. This mimicks the behaviour of MATCH() ... AGAINST() without the IN BOOLEAN MODE modifier. < > These two operators are used to change a word's contribution to the relevance value that is assigned to a row. The < operator decreases the contribution and the > operator increases it. See the example below. ( ) Parentheses are used to group words into subexpressions. ~ A leading tilde acts as a negation operator, causing the word's contribution to the row relevance to be negative. It's useful for marking noise words. A row that contains such a word will be rated lower than others, but will not be excluded altogether, as it would be with the - operator. * An asterisk is the truncation operator. Unlike the other operators, it should be appended to the word, not prepended. " The phrase, that is enclosed in double quotes ", matches only rows that contain this phrase literally, as it was typed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy! Clint

BTW, they said they looking into doing this with the forums too.

If I want to do a search on Renderosity for Michael version 3.0 products I have to do more than one search to find ALL Michael 3.0 products. I have to guess what to search for and try "M3" and "Mike 3" and "Mike3" and "Michael 3" and "Michael3" before I find all of the M3 products that are available at Renderosity. There seems to be some inconsistencies between how product developers are listing their products using different search criteria to describe, what should be, the same search criteria.

Also, regarding a previous response, try searching in the Marketplace for (quotemark) "M3" (end quotemark) and you'll find that you'll get an error message saying no products were found that matched your search criteria. If you leave off the quotemarks then you'll get the list of available M3 products. Something is wrong there. Quotes surrounding an individual word search request should not defeat the search. Please check it out, Renderosity.

Look at google.com as an example.

THE OTHER POINT:

Again, I love this site. Just want it to be as great as it can possibly be!

I'm happy to hear that Renderosity is working on making the Renderosity search engine more powerful. That can only lead to many more happy Renderosity people!

What I'd like is the ability to have up to 3 words/phrases in my search, with "and/or" linking. If I just search on "ship" right now I'd get worshipping poses for naked vickis (actually I just did it in free stuff and spotted confetti packs, BDUs, and alien thingies), and maybe a few vehicles capable of floating on water. Maybe. A seach on "ship" plus "viking" might reveal that there are none to be had... but at least I wouldn't be scrounging through 80 images to discover that! Carolly