I'm one of those folks Joey. I just can't seem to navigate netview at all.
I'm definitly not the brightest burning bulb on this list but when I put in
a pretty explicit keyword in the search and what appeared to be the entire
netview returned as a result almost every time, I kind of just gave up on
it. I figured that it was probably used more inhouse as a means of
distributing assets to the team rather than a public portal for everything
XSI. I agree with Marc-Andre and Matt on this one. I hope Soft doesn't
allocate much money/effort towards making Netview the hotspot for XSI at
this point in time. Great idea just other higher priority things to take
care of imo. (hint*uveditor/moondust/particles/updated modeling tools*hint)
-wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joey Ponthieux" <j.g.ponthieux(at)LaRC.NASA.GOV>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: online assets and resources, was Re: Framestore jobs?
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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