Thank you guys for your reply. I´ll put some thinking about alienbrain. I´d also will consider other options.
David Rivera 3D Compositor/Animator LinkedIN Behance VFX Reel On Thursday, July 3, 2014 1:33 PM, Paul Griswold <pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com> wrote: 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 <ml...@carbinestudios.com> 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:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com >[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] 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 >Behance >VFX Reel
