Thanks for the insight!
Unlucky... well, those were other days...
For scripting, I somewhat understand the 'tacking-on', but why layering
the C++ API, too (after it became clear that it was needed), since XSI
was C++ anyway? As we know, it's still unfinished until this day in many
areas.
Was this for reasons of scaling down complexity for 3rd parties, or to
protect intellectual property (not having to disclose too many parts of
the source code)?
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Von: "Luc-Eric Rousseau" <[email protected]>
An: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Gesendet: 08.03.2014 19:25:36
Betreff: Re: Re[2]: Good point well put
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Eugen Sares <[email protected]>
wrote:
One cardinal mistake back then was keeping so many aspects of the
development in house. Once a critical mass was reached, the burden
became
too big.
An open SDK concept would have been needed - platform like. Unlocking
as
many doors as possible, let 3rd parties do the extensions.
A question, Luc-Eric (no sarcasm, just interest!):
Why was there even any abstraction layer (the SDK) introduced in the
first
place? Why not allow 3rd parties to hook in 'first-class'?
In my personal opinion, we just didn't have the right people, and
nobody was thinking in those terms. The SDK was tacked-on and limited
in Softimage|3D as well (devkit, then saaphire, then GDK). We added
scripting in the design of XSI only in 1998, after Maya was released.
Even if we remove Maya from the picture, in 1997 it was already clear
that 3dsmax had a winner with its SDK-oriented design and third party
support.
We had the right people when it came to keying, animation mixing,
rendering, general workflows.
In the team's defense, though, developing Twister and then killing
that off made everyone waste a lot of time they might have used for
other things. There seemed to have been the magical belief that using
the microsoft APIs would give some extensibility "for free".
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