That's an awesome idea. Maybe start by asking users to send in their most useful customizations or personal compounds etc to a public collection on si-community or rray?
Most of us tend to keep those kind of things privately, but we shouldn't... Anything which makes the Softimage community as a whole more productive will advance the interests of anyone who wants SI to thrive/grow/not be declared a damn particle system lol. Our competition is the maya community who we want to win over to soft, not each other, after all. I'll put my $ where my mouth is and start sharing "personal good stuff" that I find useful on my blog. :D BTW that list is fantastic On Jan 16, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Jason S <jasonsta...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In the same spirit of this thread, > > would it be conceivable (with the accordance of the authors) > or what would you guys think of some kind of a > "SI Power Tool Master Addon Collection Essentials" thing ? > > Would it slow down (X)SI or startup times? > > Would it be hard to maintain/update? > > Would XSI become too cluttered? > > Perhaps 1 per dicipline? (1 Modeling Pack, 1 Rendering Pack) > > What do you think? > > Cause I think it would be the next best thing > to actually having certain things factory. > > And the fact of having some things "standard", > can also help alot in the usage of those things, > not only by having them right there, > but by then being much more widely used and well known. > > Things which could be commonly considered useful/amazing > which would otherwise not have been (very much) used or tried > unless people knew they existed, > or knew how it would have made their lives easier.
