Un_authorized opened this issue on Jul 22, 2007 · 36 posts
3Dsmacker posted Wed, 25 July 2007 at 3:44 PM
"Really if I can reach freiwilliger (pref., who, Japanese and Spanish are on French educated - to over also begin, can the menus (and output contents, like message, etc..)"
Point taken, ADP001. By mentioning Babelfish, I was thinking about providing away for the site users to talk to each other across the language barrier. I use babelfish to read galley comments left by non-English speakers, and it seemed to work to that extent. But Un_authorized has the better idea of mulit-language moderators and such. At least non-English speakers can have their own forums and communicate with site staff. You know, it has just struck me that this can be - to quote William Shattner - "BIG , really BIG." I've just noted the effect the retirement of the baby boomers may have on the 3D art world. If non-English speakers are actively courted, this may open up India and possibly China. Can you imagine a small fraction of those populations becoming interested in 3D art?
"Another thought - some freebies may not be appropriate for general consumption (Renderotica, RaunchyMinds), so more-or-less perpetual info on how to reach the sites that hosts those should suffice, allowing their individual site-based age controls help prevent bad reactions."
I am of the same mind with you on that., Un_authorized. Though I can see Acadia's point, if the proposed site goes international, we will definitely run into various cultural norms that will have to be respected if the site is to avoid being blocked altogether. Maybe you should lay the kneel of the site with provisions for filtering certain items according to the country the viewer is in. I think one reason Renderosity has tightened up is that they want a broader audience of the Jon Gnagy www.tseymour.com/gnagy.html or Bob Ross variety. www.bobross.com/ Indeed, those two shows may be a good model for how to handle the newbies coming in. A lot of people still think of 3D art as a higly technical, esoteric activity. I know I did until I finally bit the bullet and booted up Poser. We are just on the cusp of that changing, thanks to the time and effort put into Poser by its developers.
Alright, I'll belly up to the bar and do more than talk. If you think you can use it, I'm willing to contribute a Saturday to assembling an inital list of Poser sites that offer freebies, as well as any database websites I find. Unless you specify otherwise, I'll do copy and pastes of the urls to a simple MS text file. (possibly I'm revealing my ignorance of web tech by offering this, since I don't know what a web crawler is or what it does, but I'm also offering human judgement for this process). I will not try to test the item links, as that would slow me down too much and can be automated. The only condition I make is that this list should also be shared with Rendo (if they want it), since we are using their forum to talk about this. This is not an entirely altruistic offer on my part, because I can use this myself nothing else comes of it.