A year ago I posted a script I wrote to Netview. The script never posted
to the list it was supposed to but if you search for it, it is actually
there. It is searchable and if you know how to find it, that is if you
know the name of the script, you can download it from netview, but
otherwise it does not show up in its correct category, or any category
for that matter. I brought this to Soft's attention recently and they
said they would look into it. I can't help but wonder how many other
folks have tried downloading stuff to netview but had the same problem
and just wrote the utility off as a means of distributing tools.
Joey Ponthieux
NCI Information Systems Inc.
NASA Langley Research Center
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Chris Marshall wrote:
I pointed this out at the time, and it all died a death as predicted.
Why isn't NetView all singing all dancing? I've never been able to
figure that out! It's *every* XSI users direct link to a central resource!
kim aldis wrote:
The problem with that discussion was that it was focusing too much on
the details. Issues like viewing, documentation and search are the
key issues, not what the shader ball should look like. Admirable
though the effort was.
*From:* owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] *On
Behalf Of *Chris Marshall
*Sent:* 01 May 2007 10:07
*To:* XSI(at)Softimage.COM
*Subject:* Re: online assets and resources, was Re: Framestore jobs?
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.
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