Most of us are already registered with SoftImage.com
for events anyway, how hard would it be to make your
SoftImage.com login also keep a log on the tools you
use most and keep them organized on a favorites page,
which shouldn't be much different from the "shopping
carts/wish lists" you see on every e-commerce webpage
out there. You should be able to look them up by
author as well as function. The added benifit is Soft
can easily figure out just what user created tools are
being used the most and by whom. Perhaps it would
help the developers to see just what the user base
finds lacking in the standard tools and allow them to
plan accordingly. The same thing can be done on the
local network, keeping a log of the most used
textures, models presets etc. If I had that, at the
very least I might try to use netview to load and
browse textures, models, instead of the file browser.
I've been freelancing now for close to 5 years now,
and I haven't been to one studio that uses netview for
asset management, and it's perfect for that. I think
part of the problem is that no one wants to take the
time to set something up, so maybe if it were a bit
more of a passive system that would build libraries as
you browse? I really think that if netview were more
easily made a part of user's daily workflow, it really
opens the doors for some very cool possibilities.
Right now, it seems to be even more obscure than the
FXtree, which as I have said before, does some pretty
amazing things that even some of the smartest users I
know weren't unaware of until I showed them- because
they see it JUST as a compositor, and people like
their compositors. Things as simple as
non-distructive animated color correcting for
textures, or moving matte elements projected on geo
for particle emissions or composite reveal elements.
Then they say things like: "Holy crap, you mean, on
my last job I really didn't have to render those 15,
1200 frame matte elements in AE??"
They both need to be pushed for the things that make
them different from *just* a web-browser, or a
compositor. Otherwise people will continue to just
dismiss it and use IE, Firefox and Digital Fusion or
AE.
They're great features, and it's a real waste to let
such great ideas sit around. There's so much focus on
Character tools, which is great, but when things like
this - that NO other software can do are unexplicably
left out of the spotlight I have to wonder why.
E
--- Simon Pickard <mail(at)simonpickard.co.uk> wrote:
> "Netview is a great
> resource, but it seems underutilized."
>
> I was talking about this the other day on xsibase...
> Netview for me really should be the Hub for
> everything XSI based. A 1
> stop shop for Scripts, tools, textures, shaders,
> tutorials, Job Base,
> the Wiki, etc, you name it it should all be there in
> 1 place and main
> tainted. It's a shame more thought wasn't put into
> it and something
> like xsibase wasn't integrated into it as well right
> from the start.
>
> I'd love to see a netview that has weekly, or
> greater, updates. Have a
> front page so people know what's been updated, and
> improve that
> useless search.
>
> Regards,
> Simon.
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