Re: Goodbyes (was this is the end...)

I think everyone here can get an impression of the active members, and there is also good portion of readers that only lurk the background. The foremost google groups page itself shows between 10 and 150 thread views, perhaps I'm missing something, but surprisingly just about the same amount

Re: Goodbyes (was this is the end...)

I'm one of those still lurking around... :) -- Martin Contel CG Supervisor Square Enix (Visual Works Division) On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Jason S wrote: > I think everyone here can get an impression of the active members, and > there is also good portion of readers

Re: Goodbyes (was this is the end...)

Me too, even though I left the industry 4 years ago. I still love the app and the community. I guess I'm still in denial that it's all coming to an end. I might well be the last person to unsubscribe to the list. > On 5 Feb 2016, at 11:41 AM, Martin Contel wrote: > >

Re: Goodbyes (was this is the end...)

1314 according to https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!aboutgroup/xsi_list On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Leendert A. Hartog wrote: > @Luc-Eric - Out of curiosity: can you tell me how many people are > subscribed to this mailing list currently? > > Greetz > Leendert

Re: Goodbyes (was this is the end...)

There is about 950 members, but unfortunately that includes tons of people with invalid email addresses. I don't know how to extract the active members, and there are also people that I know are subscribed but don't read. On 4 February 2016 at 14:15, Stephen Blair wrote:

Re: this is the end......

If it makes anyone feel better, I harass my colleagues here about how we did things in Softimage to the point of turning it into a running joke where I preface meetings by saying "as you know, I must legally mention Softimage twice a day..." And although I meant that as an annoying

Re: this is the end......

Yeah, well, not wanting to go over old ground, but there was alot of effort. Though I accept it might not have seemed like it. Have to factor in different things like target audience, perception of product, adoption, etc, etc. Anyway > > > @Graham; Without going too far into 'what-if'

Re: Goodbyes (was this is the end...)

Oh, nobody wants an Autodesk guy moderating an XSI list, this is just something the list got stuck with :P I'm not aware of the list being at risk of going away, however nothing can last forever. I cannot help you with moving the users elsewhere, the list of subscribers is protected by the

Re: this is the end......

in short Maya will never be logical workflow user friendly app but continue to be Frankenstein of misc apps slaps together in most messeedup way ;) On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: > If it makes anyone feel better, I harass my colleagues here about

Re: Goodbyes (was this is the end...)

@Luc-Eric - Out of curiosity: can you tell me how many people are subscribed to this mailing list currently? Greetz Leendert AKA Hirazi Blue Softimage hobbyist, admin at si-community.com & xsiforum.de On 04/02/2016 18:54:28, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: Oh, nobody wants an

Re: this is the end......

I´m doing a lot pf poly modeling work in Maya 2016 atm and am happy to benefit from the adaption/porting/inspiration taken from Softimage and it´s developers for ways of improving Maya´s modeling. The Maya 2016 release (latest SP) can be modeled with reasonably well. I still miss niceties from