Hi Stephen, I do think there is an opportunity for just a Boolean tool priced somewhere around $99 with a site license priced at $499? I believe we should follow-up on this opportunity if Softimage isn't interested in licensing the technology (which would be great!)
If you need to do an animated boolean, I'd suggest caching the results rather than computing them on the fly using a technology like Alembic to ensure consistent results. With Alembic caching you can really reduce your investment in specialized plugins (it caches Momentum and Polygonizer as well) and it also reduces risk of plug-ins behaving differently on different machines. Alembic is also priced to allow for easy deployment to the render farm. Best regards, Ben Houston On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Stephen Davidson <magic...@bellsouth.net>wrote: > Thanks, I will try the "free" version 1.1. BTW, I just noticed that a > single node locked licence is $249, but a site license > is $2499. I was assuming I would have to buy a site license, since I have > multiple render machines, networked. (16 cores), > but maybe not. I agree that Softimage should buy this technology, and > include it with the software, since the included > Boolean function is, and always has been, very "buggy", specially if you > are animating the Boolean. > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Ben Houston <b...@exocortex.com> wrote: > >> Hi Szabolcs, >> >> I just re-downloaded the released version of ImplosiaFX (which was >> released back in February), installed it fresh and then created a sphere >> and a cylinder mesh in Softimage 2013 and then applied the IFX boolean >> operation and it worked immediately without error. >> >> I believe you likely have an installation issue on your machine, it may >> be that multiple different versions of ImplosiaFX are conflicting with each >> other. This would explain why in another post of yours you said that >> ImplosiaFX was complaining about missing ICE ports. >> >> I am willing to do a Skype screenshare with you later today to help >> diagnose the installation issue, I am ben.exocortex on Skype. >> >> Best regards, >> Ben Houston >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Szabolcs Matefy <szabol...@crytek.com>wrote: >> >>> I returned to the free (1.1) version of ImplosiaFX. I think that Boolean >>> is so important, and I think Softimage should buy this awesome ubercool etc >>> tool to include it in regular Softimage.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Cheers**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Szabolcs**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> * >>> * >>> >> -- > > Best Regards, > * Stephen P. Davidson** > **(954) 552-7956 > * sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com > > > > <http://www.3danimationmagic.com> > My Website is *GREEN*, Is yours? > > [image: affiliate_link]<http://www.fatcow.com/join/index.bml?AffID=626478> > > -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals.
