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Hi everyone!
Quick update with a feature change and a related policy refresh.
You can now add images to your own resources' Community Galleries!
When we launched Community Galleries, we restricted creators from adding images to their own resources' galleries.
After some internal discussion, we've decided to lift that restriction.
This means you can now populate your own resource's Community Gallery with showcase images, creative variations, alternate looks, and "here's how you could use this" inspiration shots.
It's a great place to show off the creative possibilities of your content without cluttering — or misrepresenting — your actual resource description.
Why we made this change
For a long time we've been working through an ongoing headache: screenshots in resource descriptions featuring content that isn't actually in the package.
The old "clothing not included" disclaimer approach has caused persistent issues — missing attribution, non-commercial content showing up in paid resource marketing, and a steady trickle of reports from users who felt misled when what they downloaded didn't match the advertised images.
Opening up Community Galleries to creators gives us a clean solution. Showcase imagery now has a proper home, visually separated from the description, where everyone understands it represents possibilities rather than contents.
The policy change in one sentence: Resource descriptions must depict the actual content of the resource, and creative variations, "could look like" imagery, and showcase shots featuring third-party content belong in the Community Gallery instead.
There are a few nuances — an exception for resources that genuinely can't be demonstrated in isolation (plugins, morphs, poses, etc.), and specific rules around non-commercial content for paid resources.
The full updated policy has the details.
What this means in practice
New uploads are expected to comply with the updated rules immediately.
Existing resources with "not included" disclaimers won't be penalized — if we reach out, it'll just be a friendly request to move those images to your Community Gallery or remove them, and your resource may be temporarily unpublished while changes are made.
Misuse of non-commercial content in paid resources remains a more serious matter.
Links
Thanks, as always, for your continued work making the Hub what it is.
~The VaMHub Staff
Quick update with a feature change and a related policy refresh.
You can now add images to your own resources' Community Galleries!
When we launched Community Galleries, we restricted creators from adding images to their own resources' galleries.
After some internal discussion, we've decided to lift that restriction.
This means you can now populate your own resource's Community Gallery with showcase images, creative variations, alternate looks, and "here's how you could use this" inspiration shots.
It's a great place to show off the creative possibilities of your content without cluttering — or misrepresenting — your actual resource description.
Why we made this change
For a long time we've been working through an ongoing headache: screenshots in resource descriptions featuring content that isn't actually in the package.
The old "clothing not included" disclaimer approach has caused persistent issues — missing attribution, non-commercial content showing up in paid resource marketing, and a steady trickle of reports from users who felt misled when what they downloaded didn't match the advertised images.
Opening up Community Galleries to creators gives us a clean solution. Showcase imagery now has a proper home, visually separated from the description, where everyone understands it represents possibilities rather than contents.
The policy change in one sentence: Resource descriptions must depict the actual content of the resource, and creative variations, "could look like" imagery, and showcase shots featuring third-party content belong in the Community Gallery instead.
There are a few nuances — an exception for resources that genuinely can't be demonstrated in isolation (plugins, morphs, poses, etc.), and specific rules around non-commercial content for paid resources.
The full updated policy has the details.
What this means in practice
New uploads are expected to comply with the updated rules immediately.
Existing resources with "not included" disclaimers won't be penalized — if we reach out, it'll just be a friendly request to move those images to your Community Gallery or remove them, and your resource may be temporarily unpublished while changes are made.
Misuse of non-commercial content in paid resources remains a more serious matter.
Links
- Full updated guide for posting Paid resources (see: Images must depict the actual content)
- Full updated guide for posting Free resources (same images policy, without the non-commercial content language)
- Original Community Galleries feature announcement and guide
Thanks, as always, for your continued work making the Hub what it is.
~The VaMHub Staff
