TheAllusionist
04-23-2008, 07:17 PM
Apologize ahead of time, moderators feel free to chastise me in public and remove my post if I have crossed the line posting this request. In addition I will be posting this message at XSI Base as well, sorry for the cross post.
I am about to go public with a new mental ray materials repository site that will cover XSI as well as Max and Maya. Currently I have Jeff Patton on board for Max and Jared Martin for Maya, but do not have anyone on board for XSI. I own Essentials and may have to do it (Quick run at it and dotxsi file from Max 2008 via CrossTalk crashes XSI 6.5), but running sites and a business has left me with no extra time to become a guru in any one program, so I want to find someone very proficient in XSI.
It is a non-paying gig, but a chance for someone to help give back to the community and perhaps rise as a recognized authority in the field. Initially translating the Material Lab into XSI (we have Max versions of ‘Hard Surface’ and ‘Cloth’ and will soon be done with ‘Translucent and SSS’ MatLabs) and setting it up so that it renders out similar to the Max and Maya versions. From there I would give them as much rope as needed to hang themselves! LOL Kidding aside, they would be able to add content like tutorials, articles, reviews, we could host a blog for them, they can contribute pretty much anything that helps the ‘mental ray’ community as well as XSI. There articles and the menu would link back to their personal sites to help promote them and their other endeavors. It may be that more than one XSI guru is interested and that is fine, I am just looking for individuals to help out with the endeavor and to provide a strong XSI presence at the site.
We are not trying to set up a whole new community, there are plenty in existence and I have one already to maintain, I don't think the Internet needs another at this time. What we do plan is to have materials, tutorials, perhaps blogs, news and whatever makes sense for a great resource for the MR community without competing with the general communities already present, just a supplement to them. That is the reason I made the repository separate from 3DAllusions, people can participate even if they are affiliated with other communities without any conflict of interest so to speak, it is a separate resource for the CG community without any real affiliations. Of course there are some links to 3DA and I have set aside forums there to support MrMaterials, but it is it's own identity without any real affiliation with any other sites or software companies.
If anyone is interested, has suggestions or would like to contribute, feel free to to email or PM me, rather than put an email up and get even more SPAM lets say that TheAllusionist paired up with my online portal 'at' 3dallusions.com will go directly to me. We should be going public very soon.
The Site: http://www.mrmaterials.com/
I am about to go public with a new mental ray materials repository site that will cover XSI as well as Max and Maya. Currently I have Jeff Patton on board for Max and Jared Martin for Maya, but do not have anyone on board for XSI. I own Essentials and may have to do it (Quick run at it and dotxsi file from Max 2008 via CrossTalk crashes XSI 6.5), but running sites and a business has left me with no extra time to become a guru in any one program, so I want to find someone very proficient in XSI.
It is a non-paying gig, but a chance for someone to help give back to the community and perhaps rise as a recognized authority in the field. Initially translating the Material Lab into XSI (we have Max versions of ‘Hard Surface’ and ‘Cloth’ and will soon be done with ‘Translucent and SSS’ MatLabs) and setting it up so that it renders out similar to the Max and Maya versions. From there I would give them as much rope as needed to hang themselves! LOL Kidding aside, they would be able to add content like tutorials, articles, reviews, we could host a blog for them, they can contribute pretty much anything that helps the ‘mental ray’ community as well as XSI. There articles and the menu would link back to their personal sites to help promote them and their other endeavors. It may be that more than one XSI guru is interested and that is fine, I am just looking for individuals to help out with the endeavor and to provide a strong XSI presence at the site.
We are not trying to set up a whole new community, there are plenty in existence and I have one already to maintain, I don't think the Internet needs another at this time. What we do plan is to have materials, tutorials, perhaps blogs, news and whatever makes sense for a great resource for the MR community without competing with the general communities already present, just a supplement to them. That is the reason I made the repository separate from 3DAllusions, people can participate even if they are affiliated with other communities without any conflict of interest so to speak, it is a separate resource for the CG community without any real affiliations. Of course there are some links to 3DA and I have set aside forums there to support MrMaterials, but it is it's own identity without any real affiliation with any other sites or software companies.
If anyone is interested, has suggestions or would like to contribute, feel free to to email or PM me, rather than put an email up and get even more SPAM lets say that TheAllusionist paired up with my online portal 'at' 3dallusions.com will go directly to me. We should be going public very soon.
The Site: http://www.mrmaterials.com/