Ben Houston wrote:
I wonder if it would be possible to share some Workgroups via Dropbox
or maybe just a set of installers grouped in various ways. Might
allow for one person to damage the whole thing though. :-/
Ya! but maybe like a common XSI_SAMPLES_DUMP Database,
to which we could then make like a more refined/finished DB out of that,
like an updated XSI_SAMPLES_DB with a selection of peoples' tricks up
sleeves,
& a few good textures and HDR Maps.
(while leaving the public dump public for references to pick out or
start from)
Rray already started something like that over at SI-Community here
<http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=3205&sid=b8855afd0a18b1578ca5038fa1997f1a>
(with a really great start by the way! )
for unfinished (and often almost finished or finished) scripts or tools.
(which included an actual renderer intergration (lol)
for LuxRender GPL Unbiased Render among other things)
But I think this could really include like scenes from our personal
"labs" database
(made of spheres boxes and grids, with a few ICE or RT nodes strigned in
a certain way,
showing tricks (or attempts) for acheiving certain looks/shortcuts/effects.
(and not just be like a passing thread)
So what would be Ideal?
If I setup a DropBox Folder, would a standard SI DB be sufficient?
With perhaps a few subfolders for scripts & scenes ?
Is dropbox Ideal? (going to everyones drives?)
Oh & that's what you meant by one person could damage..
.. if anyone deletes a file, everyone's file gets deleted.
And what size could this folder become for scripts & scenes?
But it would seem at first glance tho be the most convenient ..
no uploading, zipping.. we could give a guideline to avoid dropping
huge textures,
but normally should not become so heavy..
Or I (or RRay?) could reretreive them (taking them out of the drop box)
I wouldnt mind making an organized folder out of that dump,
to then make that available online.
Any suggestions Ideas?
I'll have to ask RRay what he has in mind..
Eugen Sares wrote:
shouldn't ol' Netview be the easy-to-access repository we all would
like to have?
I agree that the NetView could be harnessed for some of this, perhaps
for the Cleaned DB?
But anyway .. << Got "Junk" ? >> :)
@Andy
I'm not sure about
Our competition is the maya community who we want to win over to soft
I dont think winning-over the Maya community would/should be the ideal
situation
(Maya community which I think has it's place, while not necessarily
seeing it as "competition")
But I most definitly agree with ..
Anything which makes the Softimage community as a whole more productive will
advance the interests of anyone who wants SI to thrive/grow/not be declared a
damn particle system lol.
.. thinking that the SI-Community absolutely *also* has it's place :)
cheers
