[Uni-verse] Changes for project

[Eskil Steenberg]

Ok so you wanted it in a mail here it is:

The game project in its current form should be scrapped, it takes too much
time and effort and wont show any of the strengths of verse and wont
appeal to our target audience. The game development and 3D art comunity is
the strongest market for us and that is where we should focus.

There are two ways of demonstrating this either with my data, or with data
from the Orange project. Ton and i will meet on sundays amd make plans for
this in amsteddam and figure out how it could be done. What data we use
doesnt matter that much. Either way the end result of thees demonstrators
should be:

-Articles for the web, or possibly print describing the projects and how
verse helped.
-Talks at conferances, i have applyed to GDC and will be able to give such
talks at Siggraph 2006
-Possibly a film that showcases and explains the concepts (paregos?)
-Make software used available.
-Make some or all of the data available in verse format too. (depends on
rights, but enough data to demponstrate should be available)
-Possibel some seminars given to the students at gotland, and other
industry people. (visby as organizers?)

The second demonstartor would remain the architectiual one. i assume that
a similar list has to be written about how that would be shown.

To do this we should do the following changes to the deliverables:

Emil should work on two projects the remaining time:
-A photoshop plugin (this will bring in a huge market and bridge a large
gap on verse)
-A RIB exporter. Rib is the fomat read my Pixar Renderman and many other
rendering engines. This is the industry standard for Film and efects
Rendering and brings us up in to a more serious level in that market.
-Beyond that I think we should keep Emil on call for any other smaller
apps we may need if there is time.

The audio team should work mostly as outlined, but i think we should add
two things:
-There should be a audio loader that can command line use both audio
treams and clips. (i guess this is already in there)
-A connection to some sort of audio apps, either a plugin or a connection
to rewire or something similar, this should be a two week project.

Frounhoffer should do their disk based server, but it should be based on
our server (there is no point in duplicating that work), and it should
have more then just disk save featiures since we already have that. But
this is not enough, Emil and and I wrote the saver/loaden in about a week
each, and since so many other things have been dropped they need to do
more things. here are some suggestions that would be sufficient in size
and more usefull to the over all scope of the project:
-Plugin for Softimage XSI
-Plugin for Lightwave
-Plugin for Z-brush
-Plugin for relevant architectiure/CAD application.

Im fine with any one of them. but its got to be one.
We need to get roling with this and we need to do it now. No more reports,
no more talking, If we dont make a decision now there is going to be no
time left to decide about anyway. I want replys on this and i want it
fast.

Cheers

E