Forum: Freestuff


Subject: Help with ShareCG?! Can't download

FutureFantasyDesign opened this issue on Aug 14, 2007 · 57 posts


Neyjour posted Thu, 16 August 2007 at 2:03 AM

Some new categories and such would be terrific!  I'll admit that I've been kinda confused as to where to place some of my freebies, and I've noticed that others have too.

A couple new main sections (like you have for 3D Models, Textures, etc) might be the easiest way to sort out the confusion.  For example:


3D Model Add-Ons

Format:
~All
~3ds Max
~Bryce
~Cinema 4D
~Poser
~Etc., etc...

Categories:
~Clothing
~Hair
~Morphs
~Presets
~Poses
~Props
~Skin Textures
~Etc., etc.

This would get the stuff like Poser morphs and clothing out of the 3D Models section.  Yeah, morphs are for 3D Models, but when I go there I expect to see models I can download and use as stand-alones.  Ya know?  The clothing....well, yes, those are models, but not stand-alone stuff.  You need to own the Poser figures to use them, so add-ons would be more appropriate I think.

Also, textures for Poser clothing seem to be spread out all over the place...in the 3D Models section, the Textures and the Materials.  To me, they don't really belong in any of those places.  To me, textures should be .jpg stuff like stone, grass, liquid, textile, etc.  And Materials is more for "shader" type materials of the previous things, but that can be applied to anything.  Textures requiring that you have specific models, figures and clothing just shouldn't be there.  I'm sure non-Poser users would be happy to see them disappear from those sections and go into their own section.

Presets could be for stuff like lights, camera, sky, atmosphere, etc.  Although, maybe those would require their own section?  They don't really fit with "3D Models"...they're more like add-ons for the actual programs...

Anyway, just some suggestions!  I really love ShareCG and I think it would be wonderful if everything was organized a bit better.  I've been holding off on uploading some stuff because I really have no idea where to put it and how to categorize it.  :P

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