Very good point.
These are usually the kinds of bugs that also tend to slip through the
beta cycle, because like Raf illustrates, their implications only become
apparent in a largish pipeline. To catch them would require the beta to
be implemented into the pipeline, which is totally impractical.
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Robert Moodie
Sent: February 1, 2007 10:40 AM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: GATOR
Couldn't have said it better myself, Raf.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raffaele Fragapane" <jaco(at)thejaco.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: GATOR
> it might not do the job of 30 people, but when a dept is responsible
for
> the main digital character in a flick, that dept being late could
prevent
> a dozen or more animators from working until something is done. In
those
> situations saving a couple days for the right person can translate
into a
> few thousand hrs you save.
>
> The opposite is also the reason why sometimes some people get
phenomenally
> pissed off about a bug, because something that might look small and
> trivial to one person, might have meant 500+ hrs of wages in the bin
> because a row of desks working on a sequence was left with nothing to
do
> while waiting for a TD to work around some crap.
>
> bottlenecking in a pipe is a wonderful thing isn't it?
>
> ******************************
> | Raffaele Fragapane |
> | Rising Sun Pictures |
> |"The only way, is all the way"|
> ******************************
>
>
>
> Kris Rivel wrote:
>
>> Wow, you serious? It's helped me numerous times for sure but that's
>> pretty impressive. I can see the future now.....we're all out of
jobs
>> because of GATOR. XSI gets so good, it doesn't need us anymore.
>> Thanks....thanks a lot Softimage :-)
>>
>> Kris
>>
>> philb wrote:
>>
>>> saved us 3 months of 100 peoples time on charlottes ;)
>>>
>>> phil
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/31/07, *Robert Moodie* <robertm(at)hybride.com
>>> <mailto:robertm(at)hybride.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Softimage,
>>> Hybride owes you 2 days of my paycheck.
>>> I just had to add a deforming, break-away leg to my 'Giant' rig
>>> for 300 as it gets chopped off by a sword just above the knee.
>>> GATOR absolutely rocks.
>>> Cheers
>>> _rob
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> phil barrenger
>>> philbarrenger(at)gmail.com <mailto:philbarrenger(at)gmail.com>
>>> http://www.users.on.net/~philbarrenger/
>>> <http://www.users.on.net/%7Ephilbarrenger/>
>>
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>>Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.23/591 - Release Date:
>>12/17/2006
>>
>>
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