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,…
Whenever I need to find some obscure solution to a Maxscript problem it's always CGSociety to the rescue, usually from a post that's more than a decade old. I'm panicking a bit to see all that knowledge disappear.
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…
Thank you PolyHertz for achiving the forum. I tried the ReplayWeb.page standalone destop app and it loads the achive in about a minute. While search on html pages doesn't work, all the posts seems to be there even with images. One thing already useful is that if you seach for something on google and get a link to a post…
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…
Their site redesign when moving from the old black-red naughties-style forums with the gallery on top to some barren shades-of-gray tablet-optimized thing (or whatever that was meant to be) with huge header images and microscopic text in the second half of the 2010's was awful to use for the longest time. Wouldn't be…
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…