Hi Eric,
It'd also be nice to split stuff up into Expressions, Scripted Operators
(you'd need some way of specifying the ports, etc. Preferably done by a
support script to look at current selection), "run-once from script
editor" type scripts, etc.
I think that whatever you decide, you're going to have fun trying to
organise this to make them easy to use for everyone. It'd may be be worth
spending a bit of time planning how you'd like people to be able to
interface with the site and applythe scripts to their everyday workflow.
As an example, there's nothing worse than having to copy and paste lines
of code from a webpage into the script editor and having to run it. It's
too fiddly and error prone. It'd be much better if you could provide a net
view compatible webpage that'd call or install these scripts
automatically. Maybe install scripts to a custom XSIDatabase menu in XSI?
I think whatever you plan, you'll probably have to lay down a set of
standards for people to conform to when submitting scripts. I guess that
might make some people think it's more trouble than it's worth submitting
them, so maybe you could provide some sort of wrapper that'd package the
scripts to distribute them to people in a tidy way?
Andy
> XSI Database Scripts Section:
>
> I'm about ready to begin opening up the scripts section of the site for
> people to upload / download custom scripts and I wanted to know what
> categories I should break them down into?? I've asked on the Base but no
> replies to that.
>
> I'm thinking:
> -Animation
> -Modeling
> -Simulation
> -General
>
> Any ideas on other categories? I'm sure there are more specific ones
> that I need. Just can't come up with them off the top of my head.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric Thivierge, XSI Database Admin
> www.xsidatabase.com
> eric(at)xsidatabase.com
> Forum Username: EricTRocks
>
>
> Eric Thivierge wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I'll try to keep all these updates in this new thread. Read on...
>>
>> Check the site for layout / usability updates:
>>
>> - Added about us Page.
>> - Turned base material into link on material page
>> - Added tags field on upload / modify material page, will be making a
>> tag cloud feature soon.
>> - Fixed CSS on footer, now is consistently small
>> - Updated navigation buttons to be orange to match link color
>> - opened up 25 more spots in the beta.
>>
>> We're going to have a new default material scene for v5 and v6 up
>> later tonight. Many improvements within them. Please upload as many
>> material presets as you can. I'm going to be working on User Profiles
>> & Plug-ins / Scripts uploads next.
>>
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