Renderotica

In case you're wondering: yes, it's Saturday evening and I had a drink which may have lowered some of my thresholds but even if it did I still think this should be shared every once in a while.

I'd like to share my deepest admiration for the Renderotica website, and its awesome community!

Sure, I realize all too well that it's also a shop and people are hoping to sell stuff and make some bucks. I get it. But you cannot deny the fact that even a talented guy or girl can come here, open a free account and start sharing stuff "just like that" as well, thus also giving them some extra exposure and maybe some interesting opportunities.

And honestly you guys... there are some seriously talented people roaming this place. I'm not going to mention names because this is addressed to all of you and I don't want to play favorites. But it's true. I grabbed some female figures from this place (some bought, and some were even free!) and yeah... peculiar isn't it that their private parts are there. See, if you're using Daz Studio and go to the source you'll soon find out that having private parts on your characters (either male or female) isn't all that common.

Now, I consider myself super duper fortunate because I had a chance to pick up on ZBrush; 3D sculpting / editor software which can do some pretty nifty things. Like, for example, moving clothes out of the way thus making some poses / renders even more sexier. Think about buying into a bikini top and then wanting to have your figure pull one side away a bit in order to reveal her b00bie. So about that... over here I buy a cool sexy outfit and often (not always!) such a "morph" is already part of the package. Move the slider and out come the naughty bits ;) Gotta love it!

So yah... here's to you awesome Renderotica community!

--- A very satisfied ZenMaster!

Edited by user Sunday, January 16, 2022 3:57:28 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Fixed some typoes.

Originally Posted by: doorknob22

Not sure why this "AWESOME place" prevents me from modestly promoting my 3d erotic game here in my sig.

Apart from the somewhat cliched (but still true) comment: "Their house, their rules" I can come up with plenty of reasons. First... pretty much all communities I'm a member of do not condone advertising, period.

Second... it's easily explained why: professional communities like these operate in the fair basis that the rules should apply to everyone. If you can advertise, then so can I. Apart from the obvious risk of opening up the floodgates there's another problem to address: are our next posts on the forum really meant to contribute, or only to expose our own advertising as much as possible?

There's a very easy way to protect the integrity of the community and that's to simply deny this for all members.

Want to advertise for a commercial product? How about contacting the site owner and ask them if it's possible and how much that's going to cost you?

Originally Posted by: SnarltheWerewolf

While I can get behind and appreciate the mods banning spamming of ads for people's porn sites and other things, the one thing I don't get as it falls under "users helping users" is when someone is trying to find a product for their comic or render that Renderotica does not sell and people share a link to that item on a different site, the link comes down.

No one is taking a sale away from Renderotica, and I've seen many times on the Daz board where users have point people to Renderotica for Dicktator or New Gens for Victoria 8, etc. I would understand if we were saying to the user "don't buy it at Renderotica, but it at *deleted*", but in Renderotica doesn't have it, what harm does it do to help the user out and find what they're looking for?

We do not pull down ALL external links. In fact, there are many Daz links that have not been removed.The rule is no pay site links. If the link is deemed to be purely informational, then it is generally left but that is left solely up to the discretion of the moderator who sees the link. If you really want to share some information with another user and it's an external link, then send them a PM and exchange email addresses, since the link is often automatically deleted in PMs as well if it's in the list of banned words.  In a PM, you can "help" another artist out without advertising that other site to the entire community. The point is to reduce risk to the artist vendors who have chosen to sell their products here. If there is a product that you feel should be here and you know of a vendor that may be able to create something like it, then send them a PM and suggest it so that they can sell it here.  We have some amazing artists here. Just because we don't currently sell something doesn't mean that one of our artists couldn't create something like it. 

This place is a rare gem. You won't find anything else like this anywhere.