Hi there, Going back to the original post, most of what you describe is not doable by individual developers working as freelancers (I'm assuming you are referring to integrating open source technologies like USD, OpenSubD, PTex and so on). These tasks are big and fairly involved, it's like asking for a full cg movie finance by a tiny community through Patreon.
In addition to that, and even if there were savvy developers interested, I've serious doubts that it's even possible to do properly considering you have to work on top of closed source software not being in development, Softimage's current scenario directly translate to the developer having to workaround the missing bits of the SDK in creative ways by adding all sorts of hacks to the project (certainly not a pleasant work to do, you usually aim to find generalization and elegant solutions... going back to the movie example: this is equivalent to throw a unmodifiable bad script on top of it). I get the good intentions behind the original question, but I'm afraid all you can ask for at a patreon/gumroad level are scripts and relatively simple tools automating certain tasks that are already possible to do in Softimage, all the big tickets are out of the table at this point. I don't like to burst people's bubbles, but I thought a developer POV would help to bring some perspective to the whole Softimage survival landscape. Cheers! C.
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