[Bf-funboard] Features and wishlists from competitors

car trip at spymac.com
Wed Sep 1 21:33:29 CEST 2004


a wiki? ! ?
Please do, a Wiki would be perfect, that way everyone has a cleaner 
place to post detailed thoughts for this development instead of the 
cold message boards. Also a nice image upload on .org would be good for 
keeping the example images from not being server dependent.


On Sep 1, 2004, at 3:01 PM, Tom Musgrove wrote:

> 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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