Crowdfund FBX then. Money donated will decide how much it is needed. I know this isn't ideal from an open source perspective, but honestly, fbx is a business/market matter, and maybe should be put aside from the blender open source ideal.
2016-02-10 11:05 GMT-03:00 Fabio Pesari <[email protected]>: > On 02/10/2016 02:46 PM, Vicente Carro wrote: > > They are talking about the future. Most of the comments are in future > > tense, mentioning "the future" or that they are collaborating with the > > "development". And please don't get me wrong, I completely agree that > > Blender should support at least one of these new formats. But not instead > > of FBX. > > Oh sure, as I said the two things are not incompatible. > > But perhaps all those people who need FBX support should either donate > money to Blender or hire a developer to work on that specific feature > full-time, given that reverse-engineering is a time-consuming and hard > task and it wouldn't be fair to take time away from features from which > the whole community might benefit (as opposed to a subset of users who > explicitly need compatibility with proprietary technologies). > > > When you see glTF(or the others) in this list ( > http://www.vfxplatform.com/ > > ), then we talk. Meanwhile is a very promising thing that is not there > yet. > > (note: Those guys are the ones that in fact set the standard in the VFX > > industry. And FBX is in the list.) > > I'm glad that most of those things are not proprietary, except these > three: Intel TBB, Intel MKL and FBX (and probably ACES as well, I'm not > sure about this license [0]). > > My question is - what makes FBX so special compared to other formats > that an exception should be made for it in a list of standardized/free > technologies, other than the fact that many people use it? > > [0]: https://github.com/ampas/aces-dev/blob/v1.0.1/LICENSE.md > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
