I get sick and tired of seeing people selling textures in the store that are not tileable, nor do they show enough of the subject matter to eliminate the need for tiling. A high resolution photo of a two inch piece of cloth, especially patterned cloth, or a 3000x2000 photo of one square foot of dirt or sand does NOT constitute a useable texture. And while I'm on the subject, just because you got a digital camera for Christmas does not mean we want to buy every single unplanned landscape or urban background photo you take with it... Keep that junk for your photo album. There are artists such as Kromekat, who's work is absolutely magnificent, and I just wish that those of you who are not so thorough and meticulous could look at what this guy does and aspire to produce textures and photos even one tenth as good and as useful. For christ's sakes, at least give a moment's thought to how purchasers might want to use your photos or textures. Photos with no space for characters to occupy, and textures that require the user to do all the work are worse than useless. We can all buy cameras and churn out this rubbish, but some of us set our standards a little bit higher. Renderosity might be the most vibrant retail arena for digital content designers, but it's high time that they started to apply a little discernment over the material that is allowed here. The thing that sets Renderosity apart from DAZ is the fact that DAZ content can always be trusted, which is far more than can be said of some of the crap peddled as commercial products here. Or am I missing some point?

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matb, Is there a specific product that you purchased and are having problems with? Clint

Nope. Just sick of the whole attitude here, where many people seem to view Renderosity as the bargain basement store of the Internet. Take LadyBea32's recent summer textures - not nearly big enough to wrap around an entire item of clothing, not tiled, and looking at the previews, the materials are not even straight when photographed. How useless is that? It's bad enough having to do all the tiling myself, but having to first repair poor photography is unforgivable. Squaring up fabrics before photography is one of the challenging tasks. Is Renderosity going to become known as the marketplace for the rubbish that people have no hope of selling elsewhere? Jeez, how about a bit of minimal quality control here?! When even the vendor's preview pics show the glaring flaws in a product, you should not be lending validation to that product by allowing them to sell it through you. Your terms for retailers talk about products being checked before acceptance, which implies to the potential buyer that you are implicitly adding your stamp of approval to those products that do make it to the store... I get fed up having to work out from often deliberately vague product descriptions and pictures, which ones are going to be worthless and which are not. Your low levels of quality control tarnish the entire marketplace by association.

How about some sort of review section that reviews the products. And after they recieva a good review they will be stamped with some sort of 'value for money' product. Might help to sort out the quality products from the 'average' ones.