I was just about to write exactly the same
thing. There was
a big discussion on XSI Base a couple of months back about a material
presets
library, even down to a URL being registered and some guys creating a
shaderball model. Where did that go? Why don't Soft provide some decent
infrastructure and support for something like this? Netview's got to be
the
place for this, but it hasn't really happened.
kim aldis wrote:
The
two main resources for this kind of thing, netview and
xsibase, while great resources have become lacking as the community has
grown.
Netview isn’t that well organized, the search isn’t really capable and
descriptions in the tools that are there are lacking in both short
description
or documentation. XSIBase, on the other hand, suffers badly from lost
links
because nothing is held on the site and the search engine is bad enough
that
it’s not worth using.
The
time is absolutely right for a well thought out, well
maintained resources for xsi. One that’s well organized, regularly
checked and
cleaned and one with a google caliber search engine. These things, like
the
internet, live or die on the back of an ability to search and find what
you’re
looking for.
