Still going?

[Brogan Ross]

So I know no one has worked on this for over a year now.  But I just found it and am having a lot of fun with it.  I've made some adjustments and want to have some version control.  I was curious if I should go ahead and commit to a new branch here or just make another repository and reference this one?  Sorry for what's probably a silly question but I've never worked on a public repo before.

[Dorian FEVRIER]

Hi Brogan,

No this are not silly questions.

But it's hard to say. Adrea (main dev of coral) doesn't work on it anymore. The "cool" way could be you do a pull request on the repo but I'm not sure Adrea would take time to check it.

Coral is a very good piece of software but it need a main dev.

So, if Adrea didn't give any more precise advices I would suggest to fork coral and go ahead. :)

If you succeed to create a new (scientist?) community that would improve it it could be even better for coral!

Good luck!

Regards,

Dorian

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De : Brogan Ross <broga...@gmail.com>
À : cora...@googlegroups.com
Envoyé le : Samedi 27 juillet 2013 3h48
Objet : [coral-app] Still going?

So I know no one has worked on this for over a year now.  But I just found it and am having a lot of fun with it.  I've made some adjustments and want to have some version control.  I was curious if I should go ahead and commit to a new branch here or just make another repository and reference this one?  Sorry for what's probably a silly question but I've never worked on a public repo before. --
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[Nicholas Yue]

On 30/07/13 9:18 AM, Dorian FEVRIER wrote:

Hi Brogan,

No this are not silly questions.

But it's hard to say. Adrea (main dev of coral) doesn't work on it anymore. The "cool" way could be you do a pull request on the repo but I'm not sure Adrea would take time to check it.

Coral is a very good piece of software but it need a main dev.

So, if Adrea didn't give any more precise advices I would suggest to fork coral and go ahead. :)

If you succeed to create a new (scientist?) community that would improve it it could be even better for coral!

Hi,

    My understanding is that Andrea is now working for Fabric Engine.

    I recall that FE has elements/foundations similar to Coral, as such, I doubt Andrea will be able to work on a FE (Commercial) and Coral (NewBSD) concurrently.

    I am not a lawyer so that is my laymen interpretation.

    Andrea is flat out with the recent SIGGRAPH through FE so we may have to wait a little for him to respond.

    As for myself, I have contributed to Coral in the past through Procedural Insight Pty. Ltd. and may do so in future depending on the needs of the users/artists but paid work has to take priority as it pays the bills.

    I am unable to take any leadership role to maintain Coral but am always happy to play the role of Build/Software Engineer, ensure that cross platform build of Coral is easily available for newbie to sink their teeth into i.e. a good out-of-the-box experience.

Cheers

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Custom Dev - C++ porting, OSX, Linux, Windows
http://au.linkedin.com/in/nicholasyue
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[Brogan Ross]

Yeah, I sent Andrea an email, just haven't heard back yet.  If I don't, I'll probably fork it over to github, and make sure to point back to the google code.

I was thinking of making some adjustments to the attribute system that would make coral mesh better as a pipeline tool (i'm a pipe TD).  I like how the attribute specialization works but I've found that limiting the attributes to a type (str, num) limits how the nodes can be used.  Adding a polymorphic attribute (just stores an attribute) would work but would be hard to manage.  I was thinking that removing the type layer and using just specializations would work, too.  It just means a decent reworking of the attributes.

Anyway, I'll update here if I hear back from Andrea.  In case you guys are interested in following along.

[Andrea Interguglielmi]

Hi Brogan,

Thanks for taking the time to write and thanks to Dorian and Nicholas for replying while I was at siggraph, as pointed out I no longer maintain this project and my involvement with Fabric-Engine really means all my energies are focused on that technology.
If you are interested in going forward with Coral's development your best option is to probably create a repository of your own as the Coral branch will remain inactive.

I'd probably advice to still have a look at Fabric-Engine as its active development and unique features might make it appealing for your pipeline projects also, the project is held together by a relatively small group of passionate people and you'll find its community very active and responsive : )

Thanks,
Andrea

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[Brogan Ross]

Thank you, Andrea.  If anyone is interested, I've setup a github repo here named (badly, but appropriately) coraline.  I've found myself with a bunch of free time so I've actually been able to sit down and work on some of the stuff I wanted to.  Thanks again to everyone who has helped create coral in the first place.

[Dorian FEVRIER]

Great! :)

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De : Brogan Ross <broga...@gmail.com>
À : cora...@googlegroups.com

Envoyé le : Dimanche 11 août 2013 3h02
Objet : [coral-app] Re: Still going?

Thank you, Andrea.  If anyone is interested, I've setup a github repo here named (badly, but appropriately) coraline.  I've found myself with a bunch of free time so I've actually been able to sit down and work on some of the stuff I wanted to.  Thanks again to everyone who has helped create coral in the first place.

[Scott Jones]

Stumbled on Coral looking for 3rd party and open source procedural geometry and simulation plug-ins for Maya.

Is there a Maya 2013.5 and/or 2014 build for Linux, Windows or Mac available to play with?

Thank you

Scott

[Brogan Ross]

Hey Scott,

   To my knowledge there isn't a Maya plugin built for those versions.  Or at least I don't have one.  But, I don't currently have Maya installed.  However, you should be able to build one yourself.