Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: gonna bitch about freestuff...

scifiguy opened this issue on May 25, 2002 ยท 40 posts


x2000 posted Sat, 25 May 2002 at 2:02 PM

Yeah, it wouldn't be so bad if they would just tell you upfront what you need to make it work, or warn you that something is missing altogether (so long as it's not something essential, like the .obj, in which case what's the point of putting it up in the first place?). But I hate seeing this glorious thumbnail that in no way represents the lump of mesh your actually getting. I do have to say, though, that in my expirience, these cases are definitely in the minority. Most of the people putting up free stuff really do try, and in the event that they simply forgot something, they try to correct it. There's only a few here and there that... well, I just don't know what they're thinking. But no matter what a stupid load of garbage a download may turn out to be, there's absolutely no excuse for anyone flaming the creator. Just delete it and be wary of stuff from that person from then on. Whatever the person may have been thinking when they put it up, they did make that effort, and while you don't need to be grateful for a useless freebie, no one should get hate mail for it, either. Unfortunately, I even know of people providing NICE downloads who've gotten flamed for one stupid reason or another. That's going too far. Downloading bum files just goes along with the territory. Gotta dig through some dirt to find those diamonds. Of course, that doesn't mean we can't rant about it in the forums...;)