[piroshki]

Hi all,

I just had a mediocre MXM gallery experience, and it got me thinking; this is all the more relevant because it is my understanding that under Maxwell 2.0 the gallery will be integrated into the plugins directly.

Here is what happened: I found a material that looked great in the preview. The description said this material was tilable. Well, this material was not to scale (easy enough to tweak) and it tiled very poorly: the seams are clearly visible.

So I went back to the MXM gallery to leave some feedback - not because I want to be a pain but because I would like to help make these materials as good as they can be. From what I can tell I can't leave feedback or a review of any kind. Also I can only leave positive feedback... this is great for making people feel good, but the risk is that without some way of indicating sub-par materials there is no control on the quality... The quantity of materials is starting to look good so perhaps it is time to start working on quality...?

Thoughts?

T.

[numerobis]

Yes, this would be useful! It's good that the system now only allows for positive ratings to avoid bad ratings for good materials from frustrated users .
But it could be helpful to be able to comment a material if you've found a problem...

[RonB]

I do see your point but then again that would amount to turning the gallery into another forum. Truth is I tweak nearly every material there especially if the material has a texture map. All of the textures come in as planar and I rarely if ever use planar mapping. Adjusting a map to tile cleanly takes very little time and doesn't really bother me. I have run into materials that just do not work at all but that's been rare and I just toss them and move on.

I see your point but I like it the way it is...although you can't leave comments you can vote for the ones you like. I generally look to those with the most votes first.

Ron

[brodie_geers]

perhaps something more like an amazon.com rating would be good. Just rate the material 1-5 stars and show the average along w/ a breakdown of how many people gave what ratings. Amazon includes an area for people to explain their ratings too but I wouldn't mind scraping that.

-Brodie

[RonB]

That's a good idea Brodie.

[piroshki]

Brodie,

I like that approach - the star rating system does give a good idea of how people feel about something. I see comments as useful ("this material needs a better bump map" for example), but I agree that they can get out of control.

T.