Hi everyone,

I'm suggesting a Pipeline forum be created at Rendo.

I know you all understand pipeline, but for the noobs here, pipeline is the ability to move resources from one application to another.  Say you start a model in XSI and want to go to Maya to animate, the ability to transfer (other than just exporting and importing) is what pipeline is all about.  Resources created in a modeler that have to go to a game engine. Taking your Poser scene into Vue, or plugging Vue into Max, or using GoZ, or Collada, are all pipeline things.  Sometimes you can have a 2d image open in Photoshop that is a texture in Poser and have Poser material room open at the same time, changing PS changes the result in Poser semi-dynamically so you can adjust "on the fly." Other apps, it changes fully dynamically.

Basically, how a person goes from one app to another to get things done.

I suggest this for two reasons.  First, learning and sharing pipeline information is necessary for today's computer graphics folks.  There is no single application that gets you from concept to box office.  We have to move things around.  Poser content requires some sort of pipeline to get it to the market place.

Second, many of the forums consider themselves as purists.  I won't name names, but if you are in "SoftwareM" forum then talking about "SoftwareX" or other applications is often offensive.

So a pipeline forum would help us to talk about how we move things around and if we need to talk about two or more applications, folks won't be offended.

Love to see it.

Eric

Thanks Eric.

I will present your idea to the team here at Renderosity.

Yes yes! I discovered by accident, when I got a better computer with more RAM and had Poser open with Vue, I could make Poser changes and when I switched back to Vue it would ask to update the changes. Quite handy. I could adjust a Pose relatively quickly with having to close on app and open the other and back. Things seem to be improving where even a basic computer with at least 6- 8gb of RAM can handle this. This is, as yet, a subject that I think many casual to serious hobbyists are unaware of and realization could open up a lot of doors for everyone. Open communication with all apps.

Just a thought.

Tina, adoraty, beware that the purists will not like this and it migh lead to flame wars as to "my app is better than yours."  Will need some moderation.

However, at Digital Tutors, they teach that the more apps you learn, and the more worklow you learn, the better you will be at this CG stuff.  I agree.

Time to take down the application walls.  But it will be a bit challenging. 

If Rendo is going to forge into the new era, then pipeline is the way to do it.  Members here will do well to appreciate the advantages of different apps.

Hopefully this will bring some healing to the forums where elitists lurk.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about folks who know and dive into their app of choice and make it sing.  We still need trueblood brycers and poserers and dazstudioites, etc.  I just want a place where I can talk about ... um... crosstalk... um... pipeline.

Thanks,

Eric

I like this idea.