What will happen to the old Asgvis.com site?

nomeradona

We are working on integrating the forums with the Chaos Group site. It is their wish to have everything unified, which totally makes sense. There shouldn't be an asgvis site anymore, if there is no company called asgvis, right? As with any merging of data, there have been some hiccups, but we're hopeful that everything will be resolved soon.

glad to hear from you devin.. i just wish they just rename the former asgvis into whatever name they wanted.

dkendig

Since we're all the same company now, it doesn't really make sense to have separate websites for our two plugins, and the rest of the company. Once we get the username stuff straightened out, everything should be fine. All of the posts have been ported over I believe, so all that's missing is user permission and naming convention issues. We understand that it's a rather big change, but by joining forces with Chaos Group as much as possible, and sharing resources, I am sure we will have a better end user experience once we are finished the merger.

Hayduke

Has anyone found the .vismat material collection and tutorials/models...?

nomeradona

@hayduke said:

Has anyone found the .vismat material collection and tutorials/models...?
i think it will be there too.

nomeradona

@dkendig said:

Since we're all the same company now, it doesn't really make sense to have separate websites for our two plugins, and the rest of the company. Once we get the username stuff straightened out, everything should be fine. All of the posts have been ported over I believe, so all that's missing is user permission and naming convention issues. We understand that it's a rather big change, but by joining forces with Chaos Group as much as possible, and sharing resources, I am sure we will have a better end user experience once we are finished the merger.
i hope, all the tutorials, materials downloads, galleries, featured users, blogs and other things will still be there.

rspierenburg

After the initial shock of the change I realize what Devin was saying makes sense. No reason not to integrate it all together. Having said that, does anyone know if it is or will be possible to setup which forum threads are shown individually? I mean, back with ASGVIS there really was only two thread groups to deal with of which I only used the Sketchup based one (although there is great information in the Rhino sections as well). But now that Chaos Group has taken it over there are like 5+ groups of which I am only really interested in viewing one.

I hope this post isn't in violation of Sketchucation forum rules. If it is I offer my apologies, I would have posted this over at Chaos' forum if I had the privileges.

Rob

thomthom

@rspierenburg said:

Having said that, does anyone know if it is or will be possible to setup which forum threads are shown individually? I mean, back with ASGVIS there really was only two thread groups to deal with of which I only used the Sketchup based one (although there is great information in the Rhino sections as well). But now that Chaos Group has taken it over there are like 5+ groups of which I am only really interested in viewing one.

Yes - there are roll up/down buttons for each section.

@rspierenburg said:

I would have posted this over at Chaos' forum if I had the privileges.

I hope they get this sorted soon.

dkendig

There's a little arrow to the right of every forum on the cg forums. If you click it, it will collapse like the fold panels in our material editor. I think I like their forum more than the one we used on our site.

dkendig

@thomthom said:

I hope they get this sorted soon.

We are hoping to have this sorted out by next week.

thomthom

At least I got access to my imported account.

nomeradona

do i have a like button here thom thom?

broomstick

What I'd really like to know is if there will be a full compatibility between materials from vray for 3dsmax to vray for skp/rhino... I think that would be a nice thing..

nomeradona

oh..i can post to max and maya but not sketchup and rhino threads.

andybot

I've been waiting patiently, but it's been more than a week now. Anyone have any idea when the chaosgroup forum will be online for vfsu and vfr users?
Btw, I do have to say it's been really great to browse through the postings on the vray for max part of the forum. I have actually learned a few more tricks/ tweaks for my vray settings.

-Andy

dkendig

I know I can post now, and another user posted on the forums. Chaos Group is combing through the users manually, to help ensure that the data is migrated properly between our old forum and their forum. I'm not sure how far along they are, but if you give it another shot, you might be able to post now, or by this weekend.

thomthom

Some poor soul is going through all the thousands of user accounts from the former ASGVis site?

nomeradona

anyway we know you are doing your best there. so good luck to you guys.

ACastro

hello everybody

@jarynzlesa said:

and I have no chance to do anything [attachment=0:1sawl168]Bez.jpg[/attachment:1sawl168]

the same happens to me

%(#0000BF)["*Antonio Castro, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.*"]

I could be wrong (I hope) but the dynamics of the old forum, is gone ...or will take some time to recover

Cptos.

Castro

ACastro

@nomeradona said:

anyway we know you are doing your best there. so good luck to you guys.

andybot

since I still can't post there, I thought I'd ask in case Devin or anyone else reading this knew. Is there an expected completion date for getting all the old accounts activated? If my account by some time is not activated, is there a particular person to contact to get my account active? I'm hesitant to contact support yet, as it seems they are doing all they can to try and get things merged, but obviously have run into some major stumbling blocks.
I hope the spirit of the old forum comes back as soon as all the regular participants are able to post to their hearts desire! That and I am dying to see a new beta!!

Andy