Hi,
I could provide that FTP accounts (virtually unlimited, but I think maybe a hundred will be sufficient). Also the functionality that certain users will have only access to their specific tasks (eg. a folder for all the modelers, one for the animators. Scripts, storyboards, animatics or whatever). Even several folders per user with different permissions. It would be also possible to have every user accessing any folder or data but prevent him from deleting or changing other users data or their own uploaded files. So we can append an add files but cannot accidently delete older versions. Whatever setup will make the most sense here. I can provide two FTP servers. One is virtually unlimited regarding the amount of user accounts and the storage space (currently around 4TB free). It is also very customizable (accessing specific folders, user rights, permissions etc.) The drawback is the speed. Its' limited to 5 Mb/s. So if many users will access large files simultaniously, it will be slow. Second FTP server is highspeed (I sell the 'Adv Water Caustics' I announced recently here and on CGTalk through that server). Drawback here is, the amount of users is limited to 50 and users will have read only access or full access rights. So even it is high speed I thinks its not that practical... However, it would be possible to use both FTP servers. The slow one with complex user permissions and unlimited accounts for the small files like pre-production, models, previews, animatics) and the highspeed server for the large data (renderings, footage etc). Or maybe a bigger company will chime in, providing highspeed FTP accounts for the larger data and I am only providing an FTP backup site. Nothing on that server will be accessible to the public. Users will get their personal login data directly from me. I'm a long time softimage user started with Soft3D in 1999 and I'm on the list since that time. I did not post much, however. Of course the server is accessible 24/7/365 and from all countries. I *did* block certain regions like russia and some asian areas :)) but no problem to put that IP ranges on the whitelist. If you can access <ftp://ftp.imagefront.de> ftp.imagefront.de you are already within the allowed IP ranges. Certainly a 'real' company can provide better speed, functionality and more safety (I'm only a one man show) but I just wanted to add that option to the project. Maybe my FTP server can be used as a start to collect all ideas and smaller stuff and we will move all of it to a big companys FTP site later on. As I'm also a softimage generalist I will happily add any modeling, shading, texturing, lighting, rendering work and 'general' animation ( I did not animate characters since a few years) Best regards, Sven ________________________ Sven Constable Imagefront 3D & VFX Ottobrunnerstr.2a 81737 München Germany phone (0)89 442 327 93 fax (0)89 442 327 94 <http://www.imagefront.de/> www.imagefront.de From: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] [ <mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mirko Jankovic Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:44 PM To: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] Subject: Re: A germ of an idea. had recently issues with bittorent sync, it was syncing but overwrite newr files with older ones. It is tightly connected to time and date and location, having multiple users in different time zones. only 1 setup wrongly and it could create a mess with files so be careful with that one. honestly for anything done by multiple remote people safest option is to have \FTP, each user got his own folder and usage for receiving and sending final tasks, ad then only 1 to be assigned to put things together and organize transfers so... not a simple task trust me. so really all those file syncs are not so good with a lot of people working at once easy to loose a track what is going on. so suggestion: 1. main guy to organize main project folder FTP for exchange - multiple users receiving and sending back to FTP and back to 1st guy to put new versions to main project somewhere localy. this is also simplest meaning there is no need that everyone install some syncing software then yo write a lot of doc explanining how to and everything... On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Eugene Flormata <[email protected]> wrote: I agree with bittorrent sync. It's like an unlimited size Dropbox. The issue would be if we peeps were rendering a buncha gi cache files and exrs. Although there's no version control really. And worse case scenario someone deletes all the files. Paul maybe do the honours of creating a google spreadsheet for everyone involved? Not sure how many people you want involved in the project. But I think I have the biggest Facebook fan page for softimage I could reach out to. Not sure what the average skill level is there though. This mailing list seems to have more generalists in one place than I can think of haha. Maybe it's because XSI is so user friendly. On Wednesday, March 12, 2014, Robert Cole <[email protected]> wrote: This is the most productive idea I have read on this list in a while, count me in. Rendering, Lighting, Shading. Regards, Robert
