Hi, I'm not a developer but I write some stuff we need from time to time. I wrote and released a weights tool some time ago because we are still working in Softimage and we will be using it, even if partially, for at least a few years so I'm trying to make our current pipeline as comfortable as possible (we are using SI as our main tool in our biggest project right now and probably will be using it for at least 1 more year).
Being said that, I totally agree with Cesar. You can't develop advanced tools with a closed black box. You'll eventually hit a wall and you'll have nobody to ask for support or even a hint. If someone has the courage to work under this circumstances, then I'll try to support as much as possible. But implement new technologies that weren't considered in SI 2015 such as a new viewport, ptex, etc, is not very realistic. I'd be happy with 4K resolution GUI support. A probably better idea would be adding Softimage features into other packages like Maya, Max, Modo, etc. I'm doing what I can in Maya but it isn't an easy task either. Martin Sent from my iPhone > On 26 Jan 2017, at 0:58, Cesar Saez <cesa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
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