Razor42 posted at 9:08AM Mon, 18 April 2016 - #4266011

Seems like software wars are maybe a little old hat these days? We seem to be moving on to 'My community website is better that your community website'. Which is already becoming a little tiring, at least to myself.

Hivewire3D is "flourishing" that's great news. If you enjoy it there, that's even better news. I'm not really sure what the relevance in bringing it up here in the Renderosity community forum is though? Seems a little like Astroturfing. Which is what led to my sarcastic remark.

It makes me wonder is this the point someone is meant to bring up how well Daz3D are doing at the moment? ... So we can then descend into a 3 page argument about which site is "better" has more actual "traffic" or has more of a "Community" feel to it. Yawn, lets hope not.

It's funny I visit so many 3D focused and art websites and all of them have their little quirks, assets and points of difference I have never felt the need to hold one of them up as the best above all. Actually with a lot its the actual competition that makes them dynamic. Maybe one day there will be a more widespread community here in this field, that will see the benefits in building all aspects of this community up, no matter the platform or domain name. Appreciating the value in all of them, the collective value each brings to the other and most of all to the artists in this field. This ideal was part of what made Renderosity a place really worth visiting, a diverse community of digital, traditional and mixed medium artists. A gallery that featured watercolors next to photographs next to renders.

It wasn't the sameness that made it interesting it was the differences that really made it sing.

I really don't think is is a question in saying 'my community web site is better than yours' the claim was that Hivewire3d was flourishing. Now I can see how that may been seen in some light as some sort of bragging but there is another way of looking at it. Rendo used to have a thriving, helpful and interesting Poser forum here, now it doesn't, even more it was a community but that too has gone. When that happened I went looking for something to replace it and found RDNA, not only that I found some of the same forum people that had gone missing from here were there. A few years on and the RDNA community has been torn asunder and people are on the move again.

I was never that keen on the software wars and was annoyed when mis-information was used, irrespective of the software. I have yet to see software wars break out at Hivewire3D and I do regard it as a community, that said I mentioned it as a possible replacement for what has been lost here. I would be the first to acknowledge that it may be too sweetness and light for some, just as cgbytes might be the complete opposite for others. At the end of the day I really don't care who goes where as long as I know where to find those who may be able to assist when the hobby I love throws up the odd little problem.

Would I like the old Rendo Poser forum back, without a doubt, even more I wish it had never slipped from the pinnacle it once had, but it is dead a gone and not really somewhere I would suggest any newcomer should visit.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.