| It's hard to explain why this project has never been scheduled in the last 15 years without pointing fingers.
Excellent... let's point some fingers! :D On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]>wrote: > There is really no technical reason why Softimage could not save the > equivalent of the current binary scene as ASCII, and it may not even > be slower. It's hard to explain why this project has never been > scheduled in the last 15 years without pointing fingers. > > > priority should go on exposing more from Softimage than actually > > asking for an ascii file format. > > .. and these projects often die often because argument like this, > which IMHO is a false dichotomy around core development vs the very > nebulous "more SDK access". It ignores the fact that core development > is done in a fraction of the time and benefit everyone plus the long > term viability of the product, and don't necessarily exclude SDK > support. > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:18 PM, jo benayoun <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think, it has been made clear over the past why there is no ascii file > > formats ala Maya "ma". > > Maya has the huge advantage to be build from the ground to the top using > a > > command engine and so > > makes easier to have such file formats. > > > > I think it was one of the softimage dev who clearly explain that the > emdl or > > scn files are dumps (serialized datas) from internal datastructures. The > > downside of this is because Autodesk wont expose softimage internals, > this > > makes the format closed and if your file gets corruptes, well thats all > on > > you, but as a good point, we get faster load times. > > > > We already have the tools to write custom exporter, though they are > > limited... priority should go on exposing more from Softimage than > actually > > asking for an ascii file format. > -- Gene Crucean - Emmy winning - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor / iOS-OSX Developer / Filmmaker / Photographer ** *Freelance for hire* ** www.genecrucean.com ~~ Please use my website's contact form on www.genecrucean.com for any personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~
