I know it's diagreeable but it's needed....
No one is forced to create things, and we don't put deadlines, we're well
OK. But by registering to the RMP team and by in that way accessing the secret
sections of Bu's temple, each member implicitly promised that he'd help the
project by his creations, his scripts or even simply an active participation
to the RMP forum discussions and ideas. Else, I deduce that his goal is just
to be informed of the project progress by the web page and by newsletters,
and for that case a special "spectators" status is at the moment being created,
making more fair the movie credits, and there will maybe be access restrictions
on it.
Same thing for the taken tasks : when you submit/subscribe to one, you gotta
make it when you have time, or you unsubscribe from it, else we got tasks
blocked for months that paralyse the project.
But all that isn't so important, what really irritates me is the upload unwillingness.
Because many members make pretty models and have no problems to show them
on the forum in raytraced and global illuminated renders. And then, strangely,
a part of them is happy to have so well helped the RMP and goes back to the
bed or, in the best case, begins an other task. If everyone applied that awesome
strategy, in ten years the RMP forum FTP would be full with thousands of pictures,
and the RMP wouldn't be at 20% of its progress.
I know that showing his creations on the forum is one of the best rewards
a creator can get. But its not at all the purpose of the RMP. Only the upload
of those creations toward the RMP center, Bu's temple, can make the RMP to
go forward. Only the groupping of creations on Bu's, their sorting by type
and their sharing with other members in the different sections or by the mega
zip packs can allow the creation of bigger scenes toward the final movie scenes.
Fortunately I manage thanks to my obstinacy to get most of the creations,
but it's more than tiring...
Administrating Bu's temple is most of time a quite boring work converting,
checking, repairing, improving, retexturing, rendering, zipping, renamming,
uploading and linking creations isn't a dream work, and cant be considered
as very rewarding (I've dropped since a long time the idea to put my nick
on all the creations I fixed/improved), and it takes a lot of time.
So I don't think I exagerate by asking members a little more willingness and
cooperation. Actually, I don't want to have to go and catch myself members'
creation or to send lots of mails to get them. I don't want to have to spend
my time browsing the web to search for missing textures and files. More generally,
I'd like people to obey as soon as possible when I ask for a file, and to
always answer to request-mails/PMs (that's one of the gold rules of the internet...).
Because it's highly frustrating to see corrupted/uncomplete files stacking
on my HDD, or to see on the forum lots of awesome renders of old models that
still aren't on Bu's temple, whereas it is soooo easy and quick to upload
files toward the RMP depot...
Imo about 25 % if the models made lack on Bu's temple, most of time because
of that unwillingness. That's quite a lot. I count on each one to get the
upload reflex, that'll boost a lot the project.
BTW - I'd like to thank a lot Assassin, Dark Eyedol and The_angry_monkey,
for their work but especially for their exemplary cooperation.