WORD AGAIN! Thanks Luc-Eric! Putting even more weight to the subject and the request to finally just DO IT. Give us a real ASCII alternative. Not just a .scntoc
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]>wrote: > > It sounds to me to be always the same arguments at the end (front-end > tools > > vs SDK extensibility). > > We are already capable of writing a custom exporter but suffer from > > inaccessible stuff. Why would I like the team > > to provide me an ascii file format while opening more the SDK would > allow me > > to write my own + bring many other benefits in different areas other than > > IE? > > Getting the team to add APIs so that you can write your own custom > format *instead* of doing an ASCII file format is just a wrong idea, > imho. I just hate these types of "please do work on this" discussion > where someone gets threatened by other development.. > > First, I think we actually already have those APIs anyway. I mean, > crosswalk and the various format supports are written with the SDK and > we even have apis to browse the connection stack. But more > importantly, you'll never write a full replacement for the XSI scene > format. It's never going to happen. You don't have the time, the > technical know-how or interest to do all of the work of saving every > bit in every corner of the software correctly and test that. And > people do not want to download your custom format plug-in, assuming it > would be free: they want the software to have it natively, tested and > supported, otherwise they'll never use it. > > APIs are not related to problem in question here. > > Native ascii file format is about dealing with scene corruption, > saving your ass on a deadline and the long term viability of Softimage > assets in the future. That shader corruption in softimage 2011 > nonsense would have never happened if the scene file format was opened > and human readable. It doesn't make sense imho to put all this energy > creating assets and then putting them in black box you can never look > into. > -- --------------------------------------- Vladimir Jankijevic Technical Direction Elefant Studios AG Lessingstrasse 15 CH-8002 Zürich +41 44 500 48 20 www.elefantstudios.ch ---------------------------------------
