> I just wonder, with all those blocks, how do you propose to bring
> them together into one usable package?
> For bigger pipelines I see how it can work,(with plenty of TDs around)
> but for smaller shops and Freelancers?
> Is any group of people having a concept of congealing those blocks.
> I'd be highly interested!
Well, I think no one should be 'entitled' or have 'authority' for
packaging these blocks, it's a question of freedom. Yet different kind
of 'packages' may be usefull or required depending on the needs, usages,
gui tastes, etc..
Different 'packages' could be presented by companies, communities,
individuals. The key is that any work done on those blocks would appear
in all the packages. Different programming languages could be use,
because using C++/Qt/Python may be not the wisest choice when you want
to concentrate on features, experimenting, and move quickly.
Anyway, that's just an ideal (naive?) vision of what could be done.
As you pointed it, in reality this require resources and time of course.
But sometimes it's also a question of where and when you put your
resources when you have some. The choice is here.
On my side I'm working on something highly experimental albeit I
obviously don't have the resources, the time, not even the skills to
create a full blown 3d application but I can do some 'packaging'.
Cheers,
Guy.
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Le 03/09/2012 16:12, Thomas Helzle a écrit :
That's what I do as well AFAP.
I'd like to add:
- Support the smaller developers, Thea Render, MoI, Modo, Lightwave, all
that stuff.
May not fit in your main movie pipeline - but maybe it does fill a gap.
And get rid of this old myth of how bad the Blender Interface is. ;-)
I just wonder, with all those blocks, how do you propose to bring them
together into one usable package?
For bigger pipelines I see how it can work,(with plenty of TDs around)
but for smaller shops and Freelancers?
Is any group of people having a concept of congealing those blocks.
I'd be highly interested!
Cheers,
Tom
On 31 August 2012 18:31, Guy Rabiller <guy.rabil...@radfac.com
<mailto:guy.rabil...@radfac.com>> wrote:
When Autodesk bought Softimage, I said it was the end of XSI.
Nobody wanted to believe me at that time, peoples were reassured
with wonderfull statements saying on the contrary "with the dev and
financial power of Autodesk" glorious days are ahead..
Well.. I hope now these peoples realize XSI *is* indead dead.
Autodesk bought Softimage for technologies and patents to be reused
in other products, nothing more.
I think it's now time for the 3d industry to boycott Autodesk. But
who has really the balls to do that ?
Lately, we saw more and more open source libraries developped and
released by major companies. I think it's a sign.
There is a non-said/secret wish more and more obvious for the rise
of an alternative solution, an open source and free solution, a
weapon against beeing held hostage by companies who don't give a
f..k about their clients, only their wallet.
There are some very interresting initiatives, openexr, ptex,
opensubdiv, the applessed renderer, the fabric engine, etc.. among a
lot of others.
I believe in this approach: companies, freelancers, working on
'blocks' of features that could be assembled together to produce the
weapon in question.
It's a non-sense now to start a company to create a new 'ultimate'
3d software. What makes sense is if each company, individual,
creates a 'block' of something, depending on their level of
expertise. Then those blocks can be assembled together either by a
community, a company, an individual. The result would suits each one
of them.
And these weapons must be open source and free.
These would be the only weapon powerfull enough against softwares
and jobs killer companies like Autodesk.
So rather than to complain against Autodesk, who has actualy the
guts to do something about it ?
- Stop using Autodesk products ? (I did)
- Work on alternative solutions ? (I do)
- Contribute to existing projects ? (I'm trying)
- Create your on 'block' ? (I'm trying)
No ? Then stop complaining, you have no power to change the
situation with words only. Companies like Autodesk do not care about
your words.
At all.
Cheers,
Guy.
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