AcePyx opened this issue on Jan 05, 2003 ยท 5 posts
AcePyx posted Sun, 05 January 2003 at 2:55 PM
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?