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Hey Octane staff

Im making this request because the "General" forum is getting a little messy with requests, ressources, support and deep thinkings about Octane

What about adding a "Ressources" forum or "Sharing" forum dedicated to sharing things

For now it would be, textures, environements, models, obj scenes, tutorials, various graphical industry news, speaking about contests in other forums where you can use Octane etc..
In futur it would be also sharing Octane materials, scenes, light setup, camera settings?, nodes?, scripts? etc... who knows

This is just to make the "General" forum a little bit more clean, because in 1-2 months when the user number gonna increase its gonna be a huge mess

Thanks
(edit: would be good also to move all the topics about sharing into the dedicated forum once created )

Also need to add that I have tons of links to share but I don't want to post too much in the general forum
Will be very happy to flood the Ressources forum with good quality things

+1 one to the above, with people sharing material set ups, HDRi maps, textures and more. This part of the forum is going to get overcrowded fast.

+1 on this one

+1 for the Ressources or Sharing forum

ok, but 1 more forum, that's enough.

the only thing, can anyone come up with a decent name for it ?
'resources or sharing forum' sounds quite strange to me.

Radiance

"Resources sharing"-forum?

"Resources and Tutorials"

Hi Radiance

Yeah sorry for all the forums request, this will be the last one im sure

Forum name = Ressources & Tutorials
Forum description = Share your knowledge and learn from others

Also I will make a topic that you can put in sticky, here's what im gonna wrote

Topic name = Rules / Please read before posting

Topic content =

Welcome to the Ressources & Tutorials forum
You can use this forum to share knowledge and learn from others
Please take time to read those simple Rules before posting

Everything you gonna share must be either free or free for personnal use
Please read licenses before sharing something and always link to the original source
Always write something, don't post links alone without saying what it is and what's included

Write clean and clear Topic titles like [HDRI] Pack of 12 from BlahStudios
Don't write Topic with titles like Oh look this is amazing or Free stuff or even Check that
People must know, just by reading the title, what's in the Topic or what subject the Topic focus

This forum is not for technical support, please use the existing forum for it
This forum is not the "General discussion" forum, its focused on sharing content

In this forum you can share...

Textures and materials (good quality please)
3D Models and scenes (wavefront obj files are strongly recommended)
References images (not seamless textures, stuff like doors, columns etc...)
Tutorials (made by yourself, or free tutorials)
Tips and Tricks (made by yourself or well documented)
General CG knowledge (like "how to light a scene" or "what are the secret of good materials")
White papers about new technology

You can also speak about...

Textures and materials (technical informations, "how-to", tips and tricks and small tutorials)
Other 3D Softwares (how to export correctly for Octane from various 3D package, things like that)
Tutorials (speak about tutorials you've seen, good books you have read etc...)
General CG speak (speak about other 3D softwares, plugins, good Octane companions etc..)
General CG news (for example speak about new software, things that goes open sources etc...)

You are not allowed to share...

Copyrighted content
Stuff you have re-uploaded and claim its yours
Applications, Executables or archives that contain executables
Password protected archives

You are not allowed to speak, promote, post links to...

Websites that share copyrighted content
Content that is not free, and when no samples are available
Self-promotion and abusive links to your own website

Also I will add a list of "tags" that you can use in your Topic titles if you want

[ENV] / [HDRI] / [SKY] / [MATS] / [TEXS] / [REFS] / [OBJ] / [TUTO] / [NEWS] / [MISC] / [BLOG] / [SOFT] etc...

octan[o]pedia? or something like this? :p