If these things are to hard to accomplish for third party people, then what realistic chance is there that they will ever be implemented ? is what i want to know, Autodesk don't exactly have a good track record of treating there customers as a valid source of input... is there some secret ballot where this stuff gets decided ?
Also, is the problem that the SDK is just too archaic ? does it need a complete rewrite ? or are aspects of the code unavailable or illegal to be changed to/by scripters ? if so does Autodesk have the ability to make the code available ? On 9 April 2013 09:27, Eugen Sares <[email protected]> wrote: > Oil on my fire. > That cluster SDK restriction really really sucks. It is the reason why > there never were any good topology/modelling addons from 3rd parties, which > leads to stagantion if there aren't any new "factory" modelling tools > brought also. > In 3ds max or Maya, all kinds of plugins are available, completely > natural. Not so in Softimage. > The few ICE modelling tools like Cap are nice, but slow. Native code is > nice and fast. > > Luc-Eric mentioned once, ICE was meant to be the "new SDK", that's why > this cluster update mechanism has been implemented for ICE already. > Imho that's an excuse. ICE complements the SDK, it is NOT a replacement! > Cluster updates should be supported by the SDK as well, even if it is > complicated, and thus somewhat of a challenge for a 3rd party dev. > Try us! Provide a good code example alongside, and we'll do fine. > > Be wise and do it. Please. > > > > Am 09.04.2013 09:08, schrieb Piotrek Marczak: > > Just give us proper SDK and let community do the rest. > > " > Softimage currently does not fully support custom topology operators. The > problem is that any cluster or cluster property will not properly update > when a topology operator adds or removes points that belong to the cluster. > In the worst case Softimage may crash. Hence custom topology operators > should only be used in the more limited scenario of objects that do not > have any clusters. Once the geometry is ready it would be possible to > freeze the object to remove the custom topology operators (but leave the > result of their evaluation), then to add the clusters and other operators. > " > ?? > > > 2013/4/8 olivier jeannel <[email protected]> > >> They do modo for birds ? >> >> Le 08/04/2013 20:27, [email protected] a écrit : >> >> I’m pretty sure there’s neither gentlemen nor ladies on this list. >> >> as for Modo vs SI – a little bird tells me there’s more important issues >> at stake than selection. >> >> >> *From:* Rob Chapman <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Monday, April 08, 2013 3:35 PM >> *To:* [email protected] ; [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: Softimage 2014 >> >> now now gentlemen, there are ladies present on the list too! >> >> lets just say , when it comes to apps and selection methods, leave the >> race courses for the race horses..! >> >> :) >> >> >> >> >> On 8 April 2013 15:32, Toonafish <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> ...but I prefer brunettes with bigger boobs. If you get the idea J >>> >>> That's prolly because bigger boobs aren't obstructed so much, so they >>> are much easier to select in shaded mode ;-) >>> >>> - Ronald >>> >> >> >> >> > >
