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everytime i glance at 3d software i have waking nghtmares on the state of spreadsheets and text editors in the 80s and 90s. everyone praise every shenangan. co
by gcb0 12y ago
everytime i glance at 3d software i have waking nghtmares on the state of spreadsheets and text editors in the 80s and 90s.
everyone praise every shenangan. companies couldnt care less about integration and dat portability, etc.
- lcrs 12y agoIt's not great but it is slowly getting better as the big studios open-source their inhouse formats - Disney, Sony Imageworks and ILM are all doing so and Alembic, OpenVDB, OpenSubdiv, OpenEXR, and Ptex are all widely supported now. The process of opening up things people are already using seems to be working out much better than previous committee- or vendor- driven efforts like FBX, X3D or AAF... That said, I spent yesterday trying to figure out how to get Leica laser scan data into Houdini, and the only way is to convert to ASCII CSV, so we've got a way to go. Text files are great for debugging, but when you've got 300 million points you pine for the I/O speed of a binary format :/