Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......

2014-03-07 Thread Andi Farhall
just as a shell basically with their own customization and updating, so could one of the larger houses using soft not do the same thing? ...

Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......

2014-03-07 Thread Jonah Friedman
Long term, that's roughly my thinking with using Fabric Engine for in house development. It puts that very idea within reach of smaller places. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Andi Farhall hack...@outlook.com wrote: just as a shell basically with their own customization and updating, so

Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......

2014-03-07 Thread Arvid Björn
What's the risk of Soft 2015 ceasing to work with future versions of operating systems and hardware? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Jonah Friedman jon...@gmail.com wrote: Long term, that's roughly my thinking with using Fabric Engine for in house development. It puts that very idea within

Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......

2014-03-07 Thread Jon Swindells
there's a vast difference between building upon an old, supported architecture and a soon to be obsolete and desolate one. besides, are you really going to base your pipeline on the goodwill of AD ? -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On Fri, Mar 7, 2014, at 05:24 PM, Arvid Björn

Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......

2014-03-07 Thread Alan Fregtman
I'd say pretty likely after two or three versions of Windows. Not to mention when it happens you'll be stuck with whatever version and Microsoft doesn't support them anymore. It usually ceases support about ten years after each release, after which you no longer get security updates and if you're

Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......

2014-03-07 Thread Alan Fregtman
Oh and let's not even talk about modern Linux support... You need to sacrifice a chicken and chant some unholy spell to get Softimage working in Ubuntu. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: I'd say pretty likely after two or three versions of Windows.

Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......

2014-03-07 Thread Jon Swindells
running fine in mint16 (ubuntu 13.10 based i think), no sacrificial poultry needed. running unity by any chance ? -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On Fri, Mar 7, 2014, at 05:59 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Oh and let's not even talk about modern Linux support... You need to

Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......

2014-03-07 Thread Stefan Kubicek
That's a good point, though then years is quite a lot of time and should even allow the largest company with lots of backlog to transition gracefully to whatever is hot and sexy then. Meanwhile, how about using a virtual machine of XP in a more modern version of windows along with your other

Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......

2014-03-07 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
it's the mainwin/linux side of things that I worry about. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: I'd say pretty likely after two or three versions of Windows. Not to mention when it happens you'll be stuck with whatever version and Microsoft doesn't

Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......

2014-03-07 Thread hk-vndr
Equally fine on centos 6.5 under kde (or gnome). Original message From: Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm Date:03/07/2014 11:03 AM (GMT-05:00) To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of

Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......

2014-03-07 Thread Jason S
I'd say you're safe within 3+ versions of windows, ran SI3D on Win7 some time ago, booted in a second lol. On 03/07/14 10:24, Arvid Björn wrote: What's the risk of Soft 2015 ceasing to work with future versions of operating systems and hardware? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Jonah

Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......

2014-03-07 Thread Jason S
I'd say you're safe within 3+ version of windows, ran SI3D on Win7 some time ago, booted in a second lol. On 03/07/14 10:24, Arvid Björn wrote: What's the risk of Soft 2015 ceasing to work with future versions of operating systems and hardware? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Jonah