CGSociety and CGTalk are shutting down next year. [EDIT] I am all for AI taking over repetitive tasks like retopology like UVW and texturing. My previous text was too long so I deleted it. I still think AI is based on 'stolen' art as human learning and machine learning are not comparable. I also see many unforeseen…
@gandhics Not sure on the exact steps, but if you open the wacz file with 7zip and grab the warc from archive > data.warc.gz > data.warc it should be possible to convert that back to regular web pages via something like warc2html.
I dont know a lot about web stuff, so just ignore me if its a stupid idea but, as for an easy and compact way to host content, whether it is text or images or links, notion is pretty handy a free account can host a good chunk of stuff the main benefit I think is that you can dump a bunch of stuff into a notion database and…
CGTalk shutting down is a shame because of the lost knowledge, but I feel like the forums had become an accessory / support forum for their paid school/course offerings years ago.
This thread is about cgsociety and cgtalk shutting down. Edit; just realized that the first post has an edit about (imo irrelevant) AI talk, so you are not purposefully derailing. My bad for overseeing that. In the context of this thread and if you where reading thru it; It should have made it clear to you that Archiving,…
Well looks like CGTalk / CGSociety is no more. The good news is I managed to finish archiving the entire maxscript section as a wacz file (web archive collection zipped) just before the shutfown. Having some issues with indexed searches, but can directly browse the threads as-is. Going to see if I can fix some bad links…
Very sad. I started off as a CGtalk user back in the 90's. Way before CGchat and Polycount. I prefer forums and archivable formats over what this space morphed into (Discord/Slack). I mean the free-flowing conversation is nice for some things, but being able to perform a deep search on specific subjects broken into threads…
Here's a link to the CGTalk Maxscript forum as a single file. It's just a free dropbox link, so I think it's limited to something like a dozen downloads a day due to the file size, but if anyone wants to mirror the file please feel free to do so. The threads in the file can be viewed via https://replayweb.page/ , or the…
In my personal view, CGSociety /CGTalk sank because of; * unhealthy favoritism for Autodesk products. * News you got fresher and more broad (software wise) and more "concentrated" (deeper knowledge) from other sites. * no changes done to the forum layout to favor art creation and showcase. Majority of forum layouts look…
mmm never grabbed on to any of the shutting down/revamping sites mentioned, just never rubbed me right i guess, posted and got nearly no traction so that is my reasoning for just staying where i learned anything from, p.c. - tried "up lifting" g.a. but then that scenario "collapsed" and back to p.c. it was. An Blender…