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…
Damn. CGSociety / CGTalk is possibly the biggest archive of maxscript knowledge online. Whenever I need to look something up regarding maxscript that's the site I turn to first.
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.
Thank you so much! This will be so useful! The last few days I've googled a few Max issues and would find a post that looks to be the answer i needed... only to find it was a CGTalk link...
Yes if anyone figures out how to archive the Maxscript section of CGTalk, please let us know or share publicly. Time is running out. I've tried using httrack and also a program called Cyotek Webcopy, both without success.
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…
Yea I really think the Maxscript section of CGTalk needs to be archived before it's too late. I'm trying to find a way to use "archiveweb.page" to archive as much as possible as a wacz file, but javascript breaks wacz linking and disabling it in chrome breaks formatting. The archiveweb.page dedicated browser shows the page…