[Bf-funboard] Features and wishlists from competitors

[Tom Musgrove]

I've gone through and read every wishlist and feature request item in some 
of our competitors forums.  (mostly zbrush and silo, but working on others)

I've also gone through and read the complete manuals (and user guides) and 
extracted every unique feature I've found from about a number of our 
competitors (Every major particle system on the market (and lots of minor 
ones), the major 3d painting and sculpting tools, every significant hair 
system, every significant tool for parametric human and creature creation, 
every parametric plant and tree tool, every significant cloth tool, and some 
other lesser categories).

I've conveyed some of this information to relevant developers (ie parametric 
human stuff to Manuel, AI stuff to harkyman, cloth stuff to Zaz, hair stuff 
to the BEAST team).

The rest, I have in partially processed form, and would like to know how I 
can make it best available to developers.  What I've generally done, is made 
extremely short descriptions of each feature (one sentence or a few words 
adequate to convey the key ideas), and then provided a link to more 
information.  I also will shortly have the features sorted by most 
requested, as well as grouped by similarity and relatedness.

So.... how best to provide this information for you all?  I plan on posting 
the processed information to the blender wiki requests area, and I can post 
chunks at a time to the BF funboard, the blender tools forum, etc.

Thanks for your time,

Tom M.
LetterRip

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