robert.magee Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Side Effects is pleased to launch the Houdini Gallery that showcases images and animations that were created in Houdini and rendered with Mantra. The gallery is being launched with some images that will be familiar to the Houdini community and some that are new. The gallery also has a "Submit your Artwork" page in order to encourage Houdini and Houdini Apprentice users to share their work with the community. If you have any images/animations you would like to submit, please visit the gallery for more information. Gallery link: http://www.sidefx.com/gallery We look forward to seeing new images in the gallery as the Houdini community continues to grow. Thanks to everyone whose work has been posted already. Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafal123 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 cool, hey there's a car from the first challange Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 great way to address the issue that caused the recent discussion about there not being enough (explicit) examples of what houdini can do. it steals the odforce gallery's thunder but all for the greater good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andz Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Congratulations to every one who got their image up there !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert.magee Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 A few more pieces have been added to the gallery including the dragon animation that our Toronto interns created for SIGGRAPH demos. It now has sound effects and music. There is also a nice guitar image.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitallysane Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Exactly like Exchange, the MAJOR bug of the Gallery is the lack of a RSS feed. The idea is good, the works are nice but how can anyone know when something new is posted? Dragos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert.magee Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Exactly like Exchange, the MAJOR bug of the Gallery is the lack of a RSS feed. The idea is good, the works are nice but how can anyone know when something new is posted?Dragos There is now an RSS feed for the gallery. The exchange uses a different technology which won't let us set it up in the same way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiak Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Cool addition. Sorry if this request pops up frequently but while we are at it, I think an RSS feed would make following the SESI forum a lot easier. When the RSS plugin was added to odForce, suddenly I was able to get to know about all the new messages without spending a lot of time chasing for them. I understand content is key (and I have to say there was a lot of progress in that area in 2007) but accessibility is becoming even more so. So would it be possible to do the same on the SESI forum as well? (phpbb has several RSS plugins available, hopefully for that version as well) Thank you, the feed commando Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegro Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Cool addition. Sorry if this request pops up frequently but while we are at it, I think an RSS feed would make following the SESI forum a lot easier. When the RSS plugin was added to odForce, suddenly I was able to get to know about all the new messages without spending a lot of time chasing for them. I understand content is key (and I have to say there was a lot of progress in that area in 2007) but accessibility is becoming even more so. So would it be possible to do the same on the SESI forum as well? (phpbb has several RSS plugins available, hopefully for that version as well) Thank you, the feed commando I'm not sure I understand the efficiency of using RSS for a forum... if you kept a given forum bookmarked, you could visit at any given point to see whether there's been new posts... you still need to visit a site to see whether you have any new RSS updates, and whichever site that is, is not going to contain a full list of the new posts... so... wouldn't it be just as efficient to stay logged in at whichever forum it is that you visit so that you can quickly scope things out by actually visiting the forum? I totally understand having feeds for stuff like galleries, on the exchange, or news articles, since they're not updated so frequently, but does it make sense on a forum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunch Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 I'm not sure I understand the efficiency of using RSS for a forum... There should be a poll. I also doubted RSS. But really, it's the best. More in terms of efficiency. Rather than visiting odforce, and other forums, hitting the "new topics", I can quickly skim the topics in a single RSS reader (i.e. http://reader.google.com) One place. Faster processing. I wish the SESI forums had RSS feeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitallysane Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 I'm not sure I understand the efficiency of using RSS for a forum... Just put the feed for odforce forum in a reader (for example Google reader as Crunch suggested) and in few days you'll understand. As for Exchange, there really is no replacement. It should have bee part of the "design specification" and I think there should really be made some effort and include RSS functionality. Exchange's usefulness *is* affected in a big way by the lack of this. Dragos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiak Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 (edited) It's not just efficiency in terms of saving time (it does save time when you're reading at least couple of feeds), but also efficiency when it comes to not missing posts. Also, it happened too often to me before that I didn't have 15 minutes to skim through the forum chasing for posts but had time to quickly jump through an assorted list of 50 posts in about a minute in a good feed reader (such as google's). There is at least an order of magnitude difference in time saved with this process. Also, as information on these forums is so valuable (and for me this is the more important reason), it's a waste to skip any of the posts just because didn't have time for a week to read them. Honestly, right now, the SESI forum (be it good or bad) is just followed by me in a so hit&miss style (checking in about weekly to "mark all as read" and maybe bump into the occasional interesting thread). As Dragos said: try it for yourself and going to see the difference. EDIT: btw..sorry for the offtopic, hopefully it's for the benefit of the odforce community as well. Edited January 19, 2008 by kodiak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 (edited) it only takes a taste of RSS to get addicted...! bloglines is another decent web client. Edited January 20, 2008 by mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 SESI always listen to the users http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com...161,159,166,158 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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