Today we released a few new features and bug fixes. Keep the feature requests and bug reports coming. New Features: Customers can now get a nicely formatted invoice, instead of just a sales receipt. There is a new “Invoice” option under the “more” pulldown in My Purchased Products and Purchase History folders. You can enter a PO#, Company Address, VAT, …
Best Practices: Texture References
When a customer loads up your model for the first time, it’s frustrating for them if the first thing they see is an error message about textures. But this is exactly what they’ll see if you don’t take care in packaging your model before upload. To make sure your customers don’t see this kind of message, you’ll need to package …
Shift-Select multiple files in Add Files and more
One of the main things that helps TurboSquid keep improving is feedback from our artists and customers. This week we added a nice feature to the Publisher suggested by an artist, along with a few handfuls of bug fixes and upgrades. In the past, if you had uploaded a bunch of files in the Publisher in preparation for publishing, it …
Turntable and Preview Upgrades
After the last major release, we’ve been tweaking some of the features based on user feedback. This week saw a bundle of upgrades go out, so now is a good time to give a summary of what’s been improved. Turntables We’ve seen a lot of artists taking advantage of turntables on their products and giving us useful suggestions for improvement. …
Best Practices: Floating Signature Images
Now that we have a new off-white background on the Search page, you have an opportunity to really make your product stand out. With a Signature Image rendered against a RGB 247,247,247 background, your thumbnails will appear to “float” on the page. Of course, the floating trick works only if the image shows the entire model, and neither the model …
Hi-Res Previews and Site Upgrades
We just released a new look for our site, especially our Search page and 3D model previews. You can now view high-definition thumbnails up to any resolution. In addition, the product information you care about most is shown closer to the top of the preview. We also have a nice new navigation bar that makes it easier than ever to …