Basically everything at 3DAllusions has been upgraded today, so please be patient as we figure out all the new features and how to format/integrate them. Big items are personal profile section now has built in a lot of the stuff we custom coded, obviously we want to use the integrated stuff rather than the mods, so bare with us as we work it all out. Profiles will have integrated comments, buddy and social group capabilities, personal photo albums for personal type images, not to be confused with the gallery, which will be integrated with profiles as well.
* Inline spam management & prevention
* Thread tagging
* Search cloud / tag cloud
* Thread prefixes
* Reciprocal friendships between users
* Public visitor messaging on profile pages with 'conversation' feature
* User picture galleries with user comment facility
* User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options
* Extended member profile pages
* Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities
* Inline editing of custom user profile fields
* Lightbox viewer for attached images
* Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits
* Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions
* Notices system for navigation bar
* New human-verification tools including reCAPTCHA, and question/answer
* User change history
* Social bookmarking integration
We have a lot of cool stuff in the works and want to get the site updated before we go forward with them.
1.) Got3D is now a continual sponsor of our challenges, so look forward to some actual prizes and some structure.
2.) Completely revamped resource section will be implemented soon.
3.) New offspring site will be going public soon. Look for MrMaterials.com to go public soon and offer material resources for mental ray.
As well as other things we can't mention yet, the move to the highend servers and adding moderators was an effort to build up our infrastructure for these exciting things in the works
Cheers!
Team 3DA