Interesting collaboration software for artists

[Sindwiller]

http://www.softimage.com/products/alien ... ideos.aspx

That's apparently some kind of groupware-suite for game developers respectively artists in particular, that combines a SVN-like service with backupping, versioning and commenting, IM and a seamless interface for PS, 3DS Max and Maya in one package. Quite useful, I'd say

Discuss.

[Warby]

it also completely blows and deletes days of work you have done ^caugh^

[-HP-]

We use tortoiseSVN over here, it's free!

[mjens]

no-more-alienbrain...

[FrieChamp]

On Crysis we worked half the project using Alienbrain and then made the switch to perforce. Although I thought that Alienbrain is more artist/designer friendly, it does seem to be less secure and that's one of the fundamental features of a source control program. If it doesn't back up your files reliably, it's useless.

[Sindwiller]

":13r153b9]We use tortoiseSVN over here, it's free!

Yeah, everyone uses SVN these days. But SVN doesn't deliver anything new or make collaboration easier on a new level. CVS has existed since, ever. SVN, too.

On Crysis we worked half the project using Alienbrain and then made the switch to perforce. Although I thought that Alienbrain is more artist/designer friendly, it does seem to be less secure and that's one of the fundamental features of a source control program. If it doesn't back up your files reliably, it's useless.

Oh? I thought it does that? Or did I let me fool by the drivel in the video? It looks pretty nice to me, though

[FrieChamp]

It does that, but not reliably. That means the database is corrupted every now and then and this makes every management very nervous after a while.

[Zacker]

Pretty much everyone in the games industry have been switching from AB to P4 over the last few years, thankfully. Alienbrain was horrible slow and inefficient, P4 is the way to go.

Same with CVS and SVN, SVN is clearly the best, but I think that a good bunch of people are still using CVS.