News Desk

Publish News and Information for any application

Browsing the Internet can be tasking, frivolous and at times moves so fast information is just simply lost or missed. We all have our goto websites, news sources, twitter users and favorite blog'ers, by submitting to ODRoot News Desk you are letting your software comrades know and indexing information.

News Desk Interface

Submitting News is pretty easy, you can either right click on the application you want to submit inside, or use the [Submit] Tab, we have made the submission form short as humanly possible.

News Desk Submission Form

Please allow 24 hours for admins to verify and add your entry* we aim to decrease submissions times,with help of our Patrons however for safety and link checking everything is handled manually 

Database

ODRoot Database is for everyone and just about anything, submit your Gumroad links, Artstation market items, Sketchfab downloads, custom Photoshop brushes and everything else.

Database Interface

Database Submission Form

Submitting is relatively straight forward

Tutorials

Knowledge is power, ODRoot tutorial library comes preloaded with over 31K tutorials but it doesn't stop there

The bulk of our application and foundations are cemented around education and learning... browse, search and favorite tutorials with the ability to easily submit Youtube and Viemo links

Tutorial Interface

Referencing and submitting tutorials has been made easier by using embed api's: for example if you submit a Youtube video in the link field and hit [Enter] ODRoot will search for the data and fill in the appropriate fields

Tutorial submission form

Please allow 24 hours for admins to verify and add your entry* we aim to speed up submissions times,with help of our Patrons however for safety and link checking everything is handled manually

Artwork

We are aware there's an abundance of websites that let you upload images and submit artwork anything ranging from Arstation - Zbrush Central, ODRoot just loves seeing artwork, link to your work

Artwork Interface

Artwork submission form

Adding your artwork inside ODRoot

Patreon Features

Patreon offers users an alternative way to support development, get rewards and advertise directly inside ODRoot.

ODRoot is free to use and we would like it to remain like so, it takes time and effort and we encourage you to join our Patreon

The Mentor

I'm a Mentor... perfect if you want to help others or offer your expertize, by supporting ODRoot for $5 a month, you get bundle of benefits and your Mentor profile directly inside our application

Services

Services is aimed towards more specialized fields and larger studios, for example if you run a 3D Scanning Service, here's the place to go

News Desk & Tutorials

News and Tutorials give you a platform and separates your channel from the General submissions

Banner Advertisement

A none intrusive banner advertisement - use Google analytics within your link - ideal for companies, software and people needing to advertise there product or services

All Patreon Tiers

We have a range of tiers and benefits including Discord access, our promise it to add one software application per month for the year of 2019

Searching

Global Search will rapidly query everything in the database, it was designed for researching and returning results for all software applications and features.

Reporting Content

Sometimes things just slip through the cracks or are simply just misplaced, please report anything you may find, Right Click on the item you wish to report.

Favorites

Create, Save and Load your own favorites...

Build your own personal library and quickly favorite most things within the ODRoot application.

Preferences

Tweaking the setting and managing preferences

Dark UI theme

Tips & Tricks

ODRoot has some handy features to speed up your workflow

Don't need or want to see all the Software applications? you can exclude them via the preferences or right click exclude the application.

You can change the thumbnail sizes in the preferences tab.

Enter in your name in email address in the preferences window to speed up form submissions

You have the ability to resize the window and can move panel splitters

When entering a video link hit [Enter] and our application will try and pull in the relative fields.

Shortcuts can be used

Common Questions

Q: Why do you not have image uploads ? A: legal reasons mainly and there's some really nice website out there already.

Q: Why didn't you make this a website ? A: we did back in version 2 and the short answer is, SPEED and Control.

Q: Could this be made for a mobile device? A: We believe so but at the moment our efforts are focused on the OS application.

Q: Are you available for contract / freelance work? A: We are extremely busy, but that doesn't mean no, drop us an email and we will happily help out.

Q: What does OD stand for ? A: Origami Digital

Q: Why is the best thumbnail size ? A: 300px by 300px

Q: What happens if I can't manage to pay my Patreon? A: we will give you a 7 day breathing period, we understand that things just happen!

After the 7 days and we still haven't received your payment, we will remove you from our application and Discord, you can sign back up at anytime

Video Guides

You can find our video guides here

Preferences

Cache

Favorites

Report

Submit

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