I haven't been able to get Alienbrain working with 2015 yet. They sent me some beta plugins to test, but with it enabled, Softimage would crash the moment I tried to use the Alienbrain explorer to check out projects.
I'm not sure what Avid's plan is for AB these days. It doesn't seem like it's getting much love. -Paul ᐧ On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Matt Lind <[email protected]> wrote: > We’ve been using Alienbrain for years on Wildstar. We’re still on it, in > fact, but are looking at options to get off of it. Problem is there aren’t > too many options out there for asset management to support our particular > needs. > > > > The scripting environment is quick and easy to use compared to anything > else out there. It has a scripting object model and supports almost any > ActiveX compliant language just like Softimage, but Alienbrain is not as > reliable. Importing/checking in files has been a crapshoot. Server isn’t > particularly fast either. Doesn’t scale well beyond 40 users. The > supplied plugin causes crashes and synchronization issues with files > sometimes putting them in a funky state. > > > > Anyway, Alienbrain is not EOL’d like Softimage, but it’s not actively > developed either. I’ve been at Carbine since 2007 and only 2 versions of > Alienbrain have been released since, and looking at the feature list I’d > consider them to be service packs more than full releases. Technical > support was so bad we terminated the contract. Pricing scheme is > horrible. Whenever we add seats to our pool, we have to buy a current > license (v10) and get charged extra fees for downgrading the license to 8.0 > to match our pipeline. If we upgrade those licenses to 10.0, we’ll be > charged again. Needless to say, we don’t plan to purchase any more > licenses. > > > > If you need asset management, I’d take a look at Core from 5th Kind. If > your needs are simple, you may want to check out Wormhole. > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *David Rivera > *Sent:* Thursday, July 03, 2014 11:02 AM > *To:* Softimage Mailing List > *Subject:* Alienbrain 10 and Softimage 2015? > > > > Hi, I was wondering if anyone has been using Alienbrain to manage assets > for softimage? > > Foundry has some products about this, and I´ve seen others as well. They > are well integrated with Maya. > > So If anyone could share some of their experience in using AlienBrain, I´d > love to hear it. > > > > Thanks. > > > > *David Rivera* > *3D Compositor/Animator* > LinkedIN <http://ec.linkedin.com/in/3dcinetv> > Behance <https://www.behance.net/3dcinetv> > VFX Reel <https://vimeo.com/70551635> >
