WTF part 3...... I agree with Matt for once!!
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*Greg Punchatz*
*Sr. Creative Director*
Janimation
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On 3/14/2013 1:58 PM, Matt Lind wrote:
WTF? (part 2)
I would definitely NOT want to stay on 2010. Way too many blocking
issues and bugs. We just upgraded to 2013 SP1 from Softimage 7.5 as
it was the first version since 7.5 which gave us the bare minimum
feature set that didn't have major issues -- and even then I had to
write a lot of custom code to work around known issues. I'm still
looking at newer releases as they come down the pipe as there are some
pretty serious issues in 2013 SP1 that we cannot live with for long.
Hoping 2014 resolves them.
People are already complaining about lack of development of SI.
Customer base is what determines how many resources AD puts into the
product. If fewer customers pay for support, how much developer time
do you think is going to be put into the product? In other words, by
not paying you are effectively killing the product. Sure, 3^rd
parties can supply some fancy plugins, but that will only continue as
long as there are paying customers to support the product, and the
3^rd parties ability to support the product is dependent on their
ability to get access to the necessary components to write their
tools. If AD doesn't develop the core, the 3^rd parties cannot do
their work. One hand feeds the other.
Let's think rationally for a change.
*From:*softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Mirko
Jankovic
*Sent:* Thursday, March 14, 2013 11:35 AM
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
*Subject:* Re: 2014 New feature list... minor corrections list... you
decide
I'm sure that if other companies see what AD have prepared for lunch
in the next month or so, they (other companies) will rush in and
implement same or better in a month or two!!!
I mean cmon who are we kidding :)
And on it is true that 3rd party people brought more improvement's to
SI in the last coupl eyears than AD did.. so then just simple
solution: stop paying subs price to AD and start paying guys
that actually do improve Softimage :)
I bet that a lot of people would rather still stay on SI 2010 for
example with fresh income of upgrades from Exocortex and rest of the
crew. Mentioning Exocortex too much but it would huge list to go over
everyone we all know who are they and we are all thankful for keeping
SI great... without them lets admit SI would be a lot lesser than it
is now....
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Emilio Hernandez <emi...@e-roja.com
<mailto:emi...@e-roja.com>> wrote:
Well that sure is something people using Houdini appreciate and we
using AD products regret. Perhaps updates are so Top Secret that AD
doesn't want other software companies to see what's coming up...
More of the same. In the meantime we can only hope that NEW
IMPROVEMENTS to Softimage are coming. Something like now you can
have in Maya the Softimage color scheme and vs., ...
But for some small things actually the way Softimage is now with the
participation of Exocortex, Eric Mootz, and the other addons that are
coming out, I think that there is not too much to improve...
2013/3/14 Mário Domingos <mdomingos.p...@gmail.com
<mailto:mdomingos.p...@gmail.com>>
This is an example of a proper software update.
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2447&Itemid=360
Mário Domingos
www.mariodomingos.com <http://www.mariodomingos.com>
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On 14/03/2013, at 17:10, Doeke Wartena <clankil...@gmail.com
<mailto:clankil...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I would like if you can see the size of objects so it's easier to
make models for 3d printing.
2013/3/14 Francois Lord <flordli...@gmail.com
<mailto:flordli...@gmail.com>>
+1
On 14/03/2013 09:45, Eric Lampi wrote:
Guys,
Don't you think it's better to just wait for the list to be
released before getting too worked up over it?
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