Is there a place to share consumer cakes, created for Finale 3D?

[KM Pyro]

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I purchased a bunch of 1.4 cakes from RKM and American Wholesale and would love to include them in my design….but it will take forever to create them all.  Is there a database anywhere?

Thanks in advance!

[Pyro_343620000]

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[DrewFinale]

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Supplier catalogs are the best resource for product simulations at the moment. They don’t cover every brand and every distributor yet but more and more are being added every week. You can enable catalogs in Finale 3D by going to File > Catalogs of effects. You can enable catalogs on finale3d.com by going to My Account > Supplier Catalog Settings.

 

If you can’t find what you need in the catalogs, send your product list to support@finale3d.com and we’ll add them to the queue!

[Pyro_345290000]

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I came on the forum looking for an answer to this question and appreciate the response from Drew.

 

I think the issue is there are so many fireworks out there and with new fireworks coming out every year, I don’t think it is humanly possible for the Finale Team to create the simulations in a timely manner. Currently I would estimate 99.9% of the fireworks are not available in Finale 3D and this constitutes the current biggest flaw in the product.

 

Meanwhile, many users of Finale are forced to learn how to build cakes in the program themselves, which is a time consuming process, and it is frustrating to imagine all the other users spending hours duplicating this work to create the same cakes just because there is not a repository for user generated VDLs.  The user generated VDLs/simulations may not be perfect, but they are being used anyways by the users because they do not have any alternative and “the show must go on!”.

I can understand if there is hesitation about having possibly imperfect user created simulations available, however the time saving aspect of this process would far outweigh any issues with accuracy in terms of benefit for the customer.  These simulations/VDLs could also clearly be labeled as user generated content (use at your own risk!) and perhaps even rated for accuracy by the community, which over time would lead to a perfection of the simulations on a scale the Finale 3D team could not possibly accomplish.

 

Overall, I appreciate the response given to the original poster, but in my humble opinion there is a major opportunity being missed here. I believe the Finale 3D team is underestimating what crowd-sourcing can accomplish.  This solution is so obvious and would work so well that I would be interested in hearing the most detailed explanation possible on why it hasn’t been done and/or why it isn’t feasible to do going forward.

 

 

 

[DrewFinale]

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Hey Pyro_345290000,

 

Well said! Not only do we agree, but we have been actively working on a major project that will allow users to more easily find and seamlessly share effects. I can’t give too many details yet, but I can assure you that one of the highest priorities of the project is effect sharing, in addition to a suite of related features to address the exact pain point you described.

[Pyro_345290000]

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Awesome to hear!!! Thanks Drew

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