Having Issues With Model Descriptions

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I didn’t notice this until @DHGoldfish responded to it.

I really don’t see how anyone can dictate or determine what everyone else wants to read or not. I’ve enjoyed some of the narratives that accompany some of the models I’ve looked at. Granted there are some LONG ones out there… and TBH, I’m not overly fond of reading (probably why I missed your post) despite the fact that I can get a bit wordy myself (LOL). I have a bad habit of scrolling thru text, and if it looks to long, I just say the heck with this. But some Warehousers have put as much thought into the descriptions as they have their models. And in fact, I too have done the same… producing a few descriptions that are two to four paragraphs long. Mostly intended as a “guided tour,” so-to-speak, to show the viewer how I arrived at what I created and/or why.

Perhaps you are a professional and have no time for narratives. Perhaps that’s where the difference is:
Professional: No time, don’t care
Artists & Hobbyists: Curious, appreciative of the model’s “history”

Now that ya mention it… it does indeed seem that there are more of what appear to be commercial models that have very little description attached to them. No story. I guess now that I’ve discovered there is a character limit, I may have to edit the narrative I’ve been working on along with the progress of the first model to be uploaded since the last changes to the 3DWH.

If the purpose of tags are for searches, then what’s in a description shouldn’t matter. I was under the impression that tags were what got your model found - if you had tags attached. However, I have noticed there are models come up in a seach where it is obvious the search pulled up a model because of a word in the description or title, and not a tag one on the page. Sometimes, there is neither tag nor description.

And since it seems (or at least very much feels) that things are being skewed more and more for only the professionals…perhaps we need two sides to the Warehouse - one side for the professionals, one side for the artists and hobbyists. That way, the only way the professionals can gripe about the artwork (or as some prefer to call it, crappy models) and accompanying stories is if they come to the “other side.”

Just sayin’

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I think our goal would be to give you search tools capable of finding what you need and giving you the “aspect” of 3D Warehouse you’d like. I guess things like descriptions tend to serve multiple purposes to different users, so that requires some thought. Thanks for the feedback.

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The division is already there (choose manufacturer model or not) and is only by query, not a ‘physical’ one.
My art teacher always told us ( before the internet) that scrolling through magazines just to get a glimp of a photo or picture was necesary for the brain to undulge as much as possible. There’s bound to get something out of it.
We do not know when or were it derived from specifically, but when it comes, you could say that it was inspired by (one of) the models from the giant pile that is called the 3D Warehouse.
Just saying that so called ‘proffesionals’ often are inspired by the models on the ‘other side’
We might need each other, side by side😀

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------------ Thanks, @MikeWayzovski … I never noticed that search feature before. Probably because I really don’t care who built the model - if I like what I see, the file size is not exorbitant, it’s what I’m looking for and will fit in with what I’m doing, that’s all I am interested in.

So…that being pointed out, then why are there so many threads by people I am assuming are professionals, griping about all the poor models and their inability to filter out models that don’t meet their criteria? Or is that feature you pointed out not as efficient as desired, and does not produce the kind of search results one would prefer?

------------ Yes. I know there are some who cruise the Warehouse for ideas for their own work - those ideas probably quite often taken from models created by artists and hobbyists. Some of them have no models of their own - which is what makes me believe they are gleening things from the 3DWH. Maybe they are the ones griping… LOL.

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