Threedy Forums. Improvements. Suggestions. Please contribute.

[Yanik]

I'd like to see a new skin such as cgtalk or 3dm-mc, i know threedy has it's own look, but come on it really looks outdated. Buy a vBulletin 3.0 license and make it look a bit more dynamic.

[Chris-3DT]

Anything else you want us to buy? You're saying that as if $180 are nothing.

[Yanik]

Originally posted by Chris-3DT
Anything else you want us to buy? You're saying that as if $180 are nothing.

I'm not saying $160 is nothing, i'm just suggesting it to you, because you improve the forum a lot in return.

Didn't meant to sound rude, i just gave my opinion.

[Jason-Lavoie]

Ha ha, where i come from, money gorws on trees, so 180 IS nothing to me (jk)

You can easily chnage the look just by making a new (forget what its called) sheet.

I like the look though, its nice and smooth, nothing pops out at you, everything is just nice and, nice.

[ross_coe]

out of interest....why isn't there a 3DTotal and Threedy icon???

I know it's not something totally important....but it might look a little bit nicer

and it's easy to put one up too....just add a 16x16 icon called "favicon.ico" into the site's main directory

this is my one

anyways....just a suggestion

[Chris-3DT]

Actually, ross, i was thinking of that some weeks back (before I went on vacation even) and always emant to ask tom but never did - i kept forgetting!

[UnsteadyTeddy]

One thing that bugs me is that with the offsite animations, you got the ' previous ' button, and it would be great if you could add it to the top section (cant remember what its called, which doesnt have it) cos its annoying when you want something there ( like a tut ) and its not been updated to the tutorials section yet.

Just a thought

[JHarford]

Could we at threedy have a gallery system for viewing the wip and final 3d artwork forums. It saves time to the busier amongst us. And will add alot to the forum

[Jason-Lavoie]

Like CGtalk, i actually like that idea, like insyead of having that for W.I.P.s , what about just for finished work.

But then people may be thinking were copying cgtalk, oh well HA HA!

Good idea cg

[Vitor]

Maybe some more moderators would improve the forums and decrease the big amount of work they have now.
Also, I think it would be cool to keep the work threads' name as a standard like - Vehicle (or environment/character...) : "Project Name" and avoid names like: "my first model", "new project", "need help"... as in most of them you don't know what's the thread about.

My last suggestion is to create some monthly gameart competitions (or mini-challenges), as the realtime sub-forum is ignored my most of the users. It could have just a single small prize (a 3d total cd maybe? ) or even no prize. It would attract some more people and get the current users more active/motivated.

Currently I see stupid posts, but thats just my opinion, although I can't stand rules, the mods need to make some fast for the ff topic forum.

I agree with Jason about this. I know moderators have being working hard on this but there still are a lot of non-sense/stupid threads in the Off-Topic sub-forum.

[Salido]

Hello all and "Salutations!"

I have no complaints, and I would just like to thank all the Mod's for their hard work. To all the Staff, I was ounce were you are now. Not going to tell you the site or even the carrier, but boy do I know the problems!

Hard enough to put up a good site, and to have a good handful support you, but for every hand full, Another handfull atracts problems,trouble and chaos.

I don't know if you want my 2 cents, but I want to at least know I tried! Just an Idea, The Speed modeling challenge,which I think is a great idea, could bolster some spin-offs into a new idea, such as this?
A modeling challenge of simple shapes or ideas,based on a time limit of course, like the rules set forth in the the 3D Speed Challenges, and picking the best three, and then taking those three winners and giving them a week to further their skills and creating a small wip, from their original winning object!
This would help all, criticing and those participating, and like I said,.......Just a dumb idea of mine.

PS, If you need a mod or help, I offer my help!

[Avatar-3DT]

I was reading through this two threads and I hardly believed my eyes. Senior members, people I come to admire and respect them for their skils wanting to leave... Was like a nightmare.
Now I see a lot of opinions that the skin of the forum should change. I ask: Why? I realy thought that we all were beyond that, not so superficial to judge things on their apereance but for their content. I will stand my ground... Threedy has given me so much and I feel I have to give 7 times more in return. I don't think there will ever be reasons to leave this thread.
As for my 2 cents on restructuration of the forum I say this:
A Beginers Corner, 3d and 2d! Its not my personal ideea, good people on VA have already use it. A place where all the beginer will post their first post. If they are found worthy, they will be moved, thread and all in the usual forum. This will give a focus point for us, moderators and will act like a filter for quality.
Maybe its harsh, but hey, life its not always pink and none of us have seen only victories.

In the end I speak to you, all my dear friends and brother in arms that feel sad and are searching new horizonts elswhere: why not create this horizonts here! Become yourselfs the creators of what you wish of this forums, theach the newbies as others have theached you. Find the patience and the love to give what has been bestowed upon you and then, who knows, maybe you will find that everything you where searching for, was right here, under your eyes, all the time.

[ross_coe]

Would it be a possibility that in the "Final Completed 3D ArtWork" section there could be a thumbnail view of the image? I noticed that CGTalk has this...and it's quite handy being able to see a little preview of whats in store for our eager eyes.

Another thing I noticed on CGTalk is that the Final Artwork threads are in order of when they were originally submitted....as opposed to when someone last posted a reply to that thread. This seems like quite a fair way of doing things....gives everyone a chance to have their time at the front of the Final Artwork section before being shunted to the back by people reply to older threads.

Anyways, not that anyone needs to copy other forum layouts....but it's quite a nice way of doing things IMO.

Just a suggestion tho....Threedy is still the best

EDIT: just noticed that cgstipe and jason pointed that thumbnail thing out, up above somewhere. My bad

[Hydro3D]

Originally posted by Chris-3DT
Anything else you want us to buy?

I wouldnt mind 3ds max if your at the shops he he

But seriously here are my 2 cents for what there worth.

Speed challengers for n00bs, not a weekly competition (not talking bout the time for the comps but the frequency of them) n00bs while its good to enter competitions, also need to work on other stuff, plus if they really want it can still enter the big boys comps lol.

A warning system for users, its an addon very easy to add into vb.

If YOU want to an upgrade to latest vb, but only if YOU want to, itll make things run faster but YOU have to decide if u wanna spend they money. You may also wanna look into phpbb2 when the 2.2 series comes out.

I dont agree with sorting posts by thread date rather than post date. Like in the inorganic forum atm the my car is faster than your car thread, if it was sorted by thread date while that was at its ppl would have had to go back pages just to see new posts, i think this would be wrong.

Awards sstem sounds cool, glad thats coming into effect good job.

Also agree with the beginner 2d and 3d forum wip and final projects, if there good enough they can be moved up into big boys (maybe make the bigger forums where u have to be granted to where you can post new thread but any1 can reply). Also id suggest that there is a diff style of critique from mods and experienced members, that when going eg, lips look too protruded they need to be beveled, offer a way on how to do this, not a tut but something to help them achieve it.

Thats what i can think of right now ill post again if i remember nemore.

EDIT: I like the idea of giving ppl ranks aswell, like if a person isnt staff but a master of 3d it should be stated, so his comments have more weight than other ppl who only half ass know what there doing.

[ross_coe]

Originally posted by Hydro3D
I dont agree with sorting posts by thread date rather than post date. Like in the inorganic forum atm the my car is faster than your car thread, if it was sorted by thread date while that was at its ppl would have had to go back pages just to see new posts, i think this would be wrong.

I agree that in the WIP sections it's better to keep the threads is order of the date of last post....but in the Final Completed section keeping threads in order of when they were originally started might be good as a way of giving everyone equal exposure of their finished work It would mean that some people wouldn't get pushed back a few pages while everyone admires the latest kick-ass pieces of work (and if there was a "best of" section, those kick-ass pieces wouldn't lose any exposure to because of newer threads in the Final Completed section)
It's also a good way of quickly identifying the newest additions when you want to browse the Final Completed section.