Forum: Bryce


Subject: Gallery Uploads....

Flak opened this issue on Oct 27, 2003 ยท 23 posts


Quest posted Mon, 27 October 2003 at 8:45 PM

Personally I can't see people pumping out 21 quality images a week (3/day). Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are folks out there with enough talent to just about make a masterpiece out of just about anything they attempt but I think the average person rolls out a lot less quality work than that in a weeks time and I think people should be striving to only roll out their best renders into their galleries not experimental WIP's. WIP's are fine for forum discussion but not to be stored on valuable space doing nothing. Sometimes people fall behind projects and can have 3 or 4 projects cooking in the oven at the same time and on average, it takes a couple of days to get your work into public exhibit mode. So even if youve fallen behind with 3 or 4 works, the once per day upload policy still affords you plenty of leeway and sounds reasonable. Obviously there's a bandwidth problem and I agree with what some of the posters are saying. Like limiting the number of pieces in a persons gallery and limiting the number of uploads per week. The problem presents itself when making the decision how many art pieces is to be kept in your private gallery. People should be weeding out their galleries from time to time and perhaps moving out those pieces which seem to have lost their luster or stuff thats been there like forever with only one viewing to its name. A personal gallery limit of say 40 50 pieces also seems reasonable to me. But those decisions hopefully, are left in better hands. You will always get that public reaction when people feel someone is just looking for a fast way to dip their hands into your hard earned cash. But lets be reasonable and admit that these folks are providing us with a lot of web space. Sure theyre cashing in on us also. You open a Renderosity store agreement with them, they get a big chunk of the take (I believe its something like 40% if Im not mistaken) but lets face it, theyre doing a lot of the behind the scenes paperwork and necessary transactions that most of us shy away from. Not only that, but Im sure a lot of us have purchased from them so we supply them with the demand and customer base as well. So they are making money on us. And theres nothing wrong with that as long as its reasonable. Now theyre looking to limit the web space unless you decide that you absolutely need to upload more 21 images per week. Theyre wanting to charge a $5.00 fee and a $5.00 one time setup charge ($10.00 total). This will help them limit bandwidth space and make them extra income at the same time. Sort of like web hosting charges that you can get on other web sites. I would suggest that if this bothers anyone, take your $10.00 and open your own web space, store all or most of the your gallery stuff there (use it to weed out your personal gallery). And when you reached your daily upload limit here at Renderosity, open your own Gallery on your own web site and upload to the limits of your agreement. There are plenty of good options out there so if you decide to go that route, shop around first. But I find nothing wrong with Renderositys proposal.