Phew now I've read this topic from start to finish. Feel like I should get an achievement badge of some sort
Jason, this is your project and you do what you want to with it. If you can see yourself spending your time and your energy on this project you probably believe in it, right?
Sure if someone else does not believe in your project like you do, they can explain the issues they see to aid you. Perhaps they have a good point of view to share.
If someone is really sensitive (not my words) for this kind of projects and like to see a different outcome, they can start one of their own. Competition is always good. Because I personally believe that no one can enforce one's own ideals on someone else, no matter how right the ideals are or the good intentions.
Btw, instead of "sensitive" I guess the word "passionate" is better describing of what is really going on here.
If I have understood Jason right he is only making tools for us that can be used in production to generate money.... or art. The tools are perhaps not the best out there but they sure serve us a purpose to handle some tasks very well. The constraints Jason is bound by has made him to come up with a solution that he has presented. A semi/full automated material generation based on Arroway textures and Arroway available instructions & information to produce adequately results quickly while abiding to the constraints and ensure the level of end results he has aimed for.
...You can say that again
That was a mouth full indeed.
If I've misunderstood parts of your intentions, tasks and challenges Jason, please forgive me.
I can see and understand those that have push Maxwell further in the past and are still pushing it today, that they want to keep contributing to their best of abilities. It will benefit us all when Maxwell as a tool, which it is, gets continuously better for us all to use.
Seeing one's precious work go a different path than one has had in mind can be somewhat daunting. Additionally and opposite to that when one sees a particular issue as an obvious problem, maybe someone else does not see that or perhaps one sees opportunity instead. Those things can lead to frustration and a lot of it. Marriage anyone?
I have myself personally made some tools available by requests from the community (because I love you guys in secret
) to make Maxwell a better place... well I bit better I hope.
In the end, even though everyone here shares the same goal, they strive passionately perhaps with different approaches in mind.
Well after this massive wall of text (sorry)... what is my wish here then? I wish that we all could see the possibilities this project brings, that I believe are.
Some of the community will use this with Maxwell professionally, that finds these tools adequately or perhaps perfect for their job at hand.
Some of the community will use these tools as a base for own material creation, having something to start with is usually better than nothing at all. Think of it as like a harem of sexy templates for material creation.
And finally some of the community, and these folks are the most important one's in my belief, some community members will use these material as a base of learning Maxwell. Although Maxwell is easy as taking a photo.... knowing physics isn't all that easy. By seeing some patterns in these materials these new Maxwellians will have a stepping stone towards professional usage. They will see a pattern of how they can as a starting guide create material, experiment some and come up with own ideas. Perhaps share some good ones like a community we all want, like a boss. Even before they know what index of refraction is or the string theory and Higgs hidden purse are.
They will become one of us mohahaha! *evil laugh*
I hope I brought down the tension and leveled up the mutual understanding.
- By hwolfejr
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