I agree that such a book could be great. However having authored
tutorials myself.....
Even if I knew deeply all the subjects you mentioned, I'm not sure I'd
ever want to write such a book. The XSI scripting community is so
small that I don't think there would be any point for the author in
spending so much time on such a big project.
The problem is that you have to cover the basics very well, otherwise
newbies are frustrated. And then you have to offer significantly
advanced exercices, otherwise the intermediate/advanced users are
frustrated. So you end up selling very little copies, and all that
time spent doing that doesn't get any return. And please don't tell me
about doing it for the principle or the prosperity of the community,
my time has value to me and there is no way it's going to be
compensated other than by selling copies.
Perhaps an alternative could to gather several authors and create
something alike the programming cookbooks. That might work. Each
subject would be covered by a different expert. But then again, do not
expect any reasonable compensation for that......
My two cents
Bernard
On 8/30/07, Raffaele Scaduto-Medola <raffaele(at)inch.com> wrote:
> Just 2 add my two cents, since I am still struggling to train some of our
> TDs, and develloper, what I would really like to see a XSI Script manual.
> we use the online documentation as reference, but it would be really
> usefull to have someone write a XSI scripting book (in JScript or Python,
> forget VBScript ever existed) explaining with lots of examples how to
> object script in XSI. The categories/chapters should follow the production
> workflow (model, rig,layout,animate,render,utility).
> It would really help to have that kind of organisation in the
> documentation so scripting TDs could quickly find examples of how to
> access tools based on production workflow, and discover related one they
> may not know about.
>
> I also agree with Brad, on the we need something with the "how the hell
> did they do this factor".
> My two cents.
> Cheers
> RSM
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