Re: 5.1 Download now

[Nick <nick.petit(at)gmail.com>]

Sounds to me more like shoddy modeling than shoddy programming!

On 4/3/06, Luc-Eric Rousseau <lucer(at)softimage.com > wrote:

Just a note..  according to the investigation the .obj files that you reported earlier this year all contained corrupted meshes, meaning for example triangles with only one or two vertices, or duplicated vertices, which eventually results in UV and polynode trouble after bad triangles are rejected.  The application that's generating these is wrong.  Obviously you've found that the importer in XSI 4.2 was dealing better with these corrupted meshes, although not necessarily by design...   The goal of the new importer in XSI 5.x was to address severe performance and memory management issues loading large meshes.  Additional hardening of the importer against corrupted meshes has been done in 5.1.  I think this whole made-up story about good programmer making the old one and a bad one making the new one is totally inappropriate..  the new importer in 5.x is helping a lot of clients who couldn't load their .obj  meshes at all with 4.2.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rainer Schmidt

Posted At: Sun 4/2/2006 7:47 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM

Posted To: xsi
Subject: RE: 5.1 Download now

Yhats true but if you encounter that with literally every second mesh you
touch, then that makes you wonder. I had a problem with .obj in 5.0 which
then was quickly fixed with the 5.0.1 release. So I am anticipointed now
8-).

Besides that... there is such a thing as error free software. But there is a
price attached with it. Along the lines of: If failure is not an option,
success becomes immensely expensive. And I bet there is no QA budget along
that line in the 3D community. So, you have to flexible and fix things as
you go along. In the financial services industry, specially in the risk
management area, software standards are along the mentioned lines. And we
all pay for it ;-).
Rainer

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> Datum: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 16:51:12 +0100

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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: Re: 5.1 Download now
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> > But to expand a tiny bit on 'shoddy'... If it
> > is posible that I can crash an application in a way that it
> > does not even say goodbye or if I can lock it up with a data
> > import then that module has been implemented shoddy.
>

> Personally I don't feel that that has to be the case. It may be the case
> but
> the nature of the beast is that it's unpredictable and some things simply
> cannot be foreseen, even with the best will in the world. It's perfectly
> possibly that a well designed and well implemented piece of software could
> die or lock up, it happens all the time.