RyanSpaulding Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Hey all, I've sort of spent all my patience looking for definitions of terms, tutorials, ect. I'm looking to create a website dedicated to the Arch side of 3DS/Viz 2005/Photoshop vizualization complete with how to's on say NPR's and other stuff. It's mostly to keep myself organized, but I feel it would benefit the community. My question is, how open is the community to creating a site such as this. Would you find it useful? It's different from this one as it'd be a resource with no forum or pesky things for me to keep updated...just info on various techniques on grass, water, glass, along with definitions of what all these different terms are and WHAT it is that they actually do. In no way would this rival CGA...in fact, I'd probably state on the main page that CGA is the place to go for discussion/articles/ect. Anyways, would anyone find this useful to have essentially a one-stop site for terms, free plugins (not those crappy ad-based sites), specific renderers pluses and minuses, and general arch info? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Sounds good to me! I'm sure I would find it useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 it'd be a resource with no forum or pesky things for me to keep updated...QUOTE] I think that if you were going to do a one stop site for all tutorials, plugins, and materials you would have to keep it current. There’s always a new tutorial or material that someone has created and if you don't keep up on them then what's the point. There are many sites out there already like 3Dcafe who have attempted to do this very thing, although it hasn’t been strictly limited to the architectural community. I for one would be happy to see a new site that had all of these things in it, but it needs to stay current and have more to offer than just beginner information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 so essentially it might be similar to you bookmarks you currently have. links to tutorials, links to techniques, links to texture sites, ect.. ect.. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanSpaulding Posted December 3, 2004 Author Share Posted December 3, 2004 Well, tutorials surfacing are rare. I'd update that IF they were relevent and something I dont have...but there wouldn't be 15 lighting tutorials and all that... I just dont want a forum that I gotta keep up, images I gotta maintain, ect. It's mostly a stand-along reference tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdp777 Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Ryan, I will offer to host your tutorials and you can leave the forums up to CGA and myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanSpaulding Posted December 3, 2004 Author Share Posted December 3, 2004 Nah, I'd definitely want control over my stuff i post and organization and also doesn't solve the problem. Thanks tho. I think the current crop of sites just upload whatever tutorial is given...there are a lot of crappy ones...a LOT. I'm gonna do this sort of thing regardless for my personal sake (offline)...I just wanna know if it'd be useful for others (online) as well. Cuz if it was, I'd probably design one for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Erstad Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 2 cents - US dollars... Your concept is excellent, however, I am somewhat skeptical as to how you would be able to maintain over the months... Good luck, Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCAD Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 you will not believe but I've already started workin on a similar site...but my purpose is different..I'm still workin on the content and google optimized site... going to be http://www.cguser.com... anyways good luck with it...and lemme know if you need any help meher http://www.drapefx.com http://www.mr-cad.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cullen Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 I think it would be a great Idea. I hate having to remember what site had what information in my bookmarks. I'm sure that you will have to do some updating on it though. New tutorials come around all the time. If you wanted to limit the updating though, just have a submit button where a person can send you a tutorial or something and if you think its "good enough", put it on your site. It would just be nice to go to a site that has new tutorials every so often. Even if it is about the same thing. Just because a tutorial shows you one way, it's nice to see other ways to achieve the same effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanSpaulding Posted December 4, 2004 Author Share Posted December 4, 2004 Right, I have no problem updating 2-3 times a week, but I'm not gonna keep up on forum moderation nor update daily...nor will there be "news". I'll start more on it when I dont feel like crap like I do right now (saturday morning =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 Ryan Overall a fine idea, but where do you stop? Tutorials and ideas for which programs? It could get overwhelming. There is a good collection of models, textures links on VizWhiz's site. Have a look at that for some ideas, or 'partner' the sites if he agrees. Or agree to contribute your time to that site or this instead of starting a new one. All just ideas to think about, I do not mean to discourage you. Saturday morning? Only a problem if you spend Friday night out partying. Ryan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam475 Posted December 6, 2004 Share Posted December 6, 2004 I would love to have a resource like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseDog Posted December 6, 2004 Share Posted December 6, 2004 guessing from this discussion ryan, it seems to me you're thinking along these lines, but i may be wrong : http://members.shaw.ca/lightwavetutorials/Main_Menu.htm which is also a one man operation. seems do-able and would be a valuable resource, as is this fellow's page. great decision, go for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanSpaulding Posted December 6, 2004 Author Share Posted December 6, 2004 Ah, that's nice. Wish it was for 3ds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted December 6, 2004 Share Posted December 6, 2004 guessing from this discussion ryan, it seems to me you're thinking along these lines, but i may be wrong : http://members.shaw.ca/lightwavetutorials/Main_Menu.htm which is also a one man operation. seems do-able and would be a valuable resource, as is this fellow's page. great decision, go for it! Hey Robin nice site! Did you program that yourself or did you use an existing program? I've been looking for a program to automatically convert my personal bookmarks to a format like that. I like the up/down status part too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted December 6, 2004 Share Posted December 6, 2004 If you wanted to limit the updating though, just have a submit button where a person can send you a tutorial or something and if you think its "good enough", put it on your site. That's a good concept in theory, but from someone who knows....it won't happen. ;-) I started CGA with the same idea...people would submit all the content....it just doesn't work that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdp777 Posted December 6, 2004 Share Posted December 6, 2004 I can acknowledge that as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseDog Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Hey Robin nice site! **looks up, embarrassed...who me??** no, that's not me on that web page it just seemed to me to be a suitable reference for ryan, sort of along the lines i understood him to be thinking. from a users point of view tho, it's pretty darned useful and is a benchmark of sorts in the lw community. i know it to be a one man operation (tho i'd hate to see his bookmarks folder), so the concept is a feasible one! best of luck to ryan in pursuing the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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