It's the software version that can be said to be forward or backward-compatible, not the scene files. So v2012 would be forward-compatible if it was designed to be able to open scenes from versions that don't exist yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_compatible gray From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Marshall Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 05:31 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: 2013 save scene = no load in 2012? Weird. 20 years of working in cgi I've never heard it that way around. A scene from 2013, won't open in 2012 because it's not backwardly compatible. Surely that's right? Isn't it? Whatever On 16 April 2012 21:47, Luc-Eric Rousseau <luceri...@gmail.com<mailto:luceri...@gmail.com>> wrote: Peter agg has the correct definition. Forward comp is loading newer data in older builds On Apr 16, 2012 11:06 AM, "Chris Marshall" <chrismarshal...@gmail.com<mailto:chrismarshal...@gmail.com>> wrote: No, it's the other way around. On Saturday, 14 April 2012, Peter Agg wrote: <pendent> Isn't forwards compatibility what we're after in this case? Backwards compatibility = being able to open older whatevers in the latest Forwards compatibility = being able to open latest whatevers in an older </pendent> On 14 April 2012 15:37, Ed Schiffer <edschif...@gmail.com> wrote: I really thought Softimage had backwards compatibility before going Autodesk...
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