[Uni-verse] Changes for project

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

I agree with a central focus on the content creation market. It doesn't  
have to completely redefine the partner's work (which is OK to have  
substantial scientific research/development), but each of the larger  
partners (KTH, II, HUT, FHG) could take a share in providing useful  
deliverables (tools/demonstrators) which are immediately usable for  
people working in 3D creation.

We're all users of 3d tools ourselves. The list as provided by eskil  
(photoshop. XSI, zbrush, CAD tools, Wavelab, etc) can easily be  
expanded. Just define what you think would be useful to have a verse  
connection with.

I also think it's a shame we don't really listen to (or analyze) the  
needs of partner MinusPlus for what they can really use. A simple 3D  
web player (showing verse realtime content) is in my opinion still one  
of the best products an architect can use, especially if it nicely  
connects to the scheduled 3DS plugin. Obviously Macromedia Shockwave is  
the best candidate to look at.

The main 'but' seems to be that - apart from us - nobody really is  
active in the tools market. :)

How much our project Orange will fit in as a Demonstrator I can't  
define well yet. I've discussed with Eskil a couple of ideas, will wait  
for Gert's feedback on that.

-Ton-


On 6 Sep, 2005, at 0:08, Eskil Steenberg wrote:

> 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
>
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