Oh I do. I do wish you the best of luck ;) Just never had a commercial company ever take a petition seriously. If it doesn't seriously affect the bottom line its just not relevant.
On 2013/07/29 11:34 AM, "Eugen Sares" <sof...@mail.sprit.org> wrote: >That depends on how many people utter their interest in this. >Hope you see the dependancy-cycle... > > >Am 29.07.2013 11:25, schrieb Angus Davidson: >> Hi Eugen >> >> Whilst I respect your enthusiasm I unfortunately suspect I will get my >>Mac >> Softimage version before any upgrade to the nurbs tools happen. ;( >> >> Kind regards >> >> Angus >> >> >> >> On 2013/07/29 11:18 AM, "Eugen Sares" <sof...@mail.sprit.org> wrote: >> >>> Dear respected members of this community, >>> since I am confident that progress on NURBS tools and SDK would be >>> beneficial for a relevant part of the Softimage userbase, and it seems >>> to be useless to just ask in the beta, I'm starting this petition: >>> >>> >>>http://www.change.org/petitions/autodesk-softimage-management-improve-nu >>>rb >>> s >>> >>> ... for which I kindly ask support from anybody that sees an advantage >>> in this! >>> Thanks a lot!! >>> Best regards, >>> Eugen >>> >>> >>> Here's the text I put on that change.org page: >>> >>> "Working with NURBS is still awkward due to a number of bugs and >>> restrictions in Softimage and it's SDK. >>> Since NURBS are and will continue to be a viable geometry type useful >>> for many worflows, they should be subject to an upgrade, which last >>> happened in version 5.0, about 8 years ago! >>> >>> Improvement list, sorted by importance: >>> - fix NURBS related bugs as has been reported in the beta, >>> - support subcurves and subsurfaces in SDK and existing tools - as >>> consistently as polygon islands, >>> - improve the operator SDK, to allow seamless integration of custom >>> tools, including NURBS, >>> - add support for NURBS in ICE Modeling, >>> - add new NURBS tools (once a fully capable SDK is provided, this can >>>be >>> done by 3rd parties also), >>> - ideally, introduce T-Spline technology (owned by Autodesk). >>> >>> Affected areas: >>> - curve to polygon modeling, like 3D text, logos, mechanical parts, >>> floorplans, cross-sections, spline cages,... >>> - ICE based procedural modeling and rigging approaches for more complex >>> animations and visualizations, >>> - better import/editing/modeling of technical geometry like cars, >>>design >>> objects,... >>> >>> >>> To Cory Mogk - >>> Why NURBS should be improved: >>> First, Softimage users should not be forced to switch to other >>> applications just for basic curve/surface modeling. >>> Curves in particular, as they represent 2D-geometry, will always be >>> fundamental in 3D graphics. >>> >>> Second, ICE support for NURBS would lay the foundation for new >>> procedural modeling/rigging workflows that would make Softimage >>> competitive in that field. >>> >>> Understandably, the Softimage developers are under time and monetarian >>> restictions, so only high priority features get realized, mostly >>> introcuded by bigger studios, and often behind 'closed doors'. >>> Yet those studios rarely request any NURBS features. The reason might >>> not even be that better NURBS would be useless to them, but because >>>they >>> mostly can choose from a wider variety of tools, and often stick to >>> internal proven workflows. >>> Yet the other huge part of the userbase, small studios/freelancers, >>> would profit directly from better NURBS, but easily go unnoticed. >>> >>> Polygon modeling based on curves is an important and reasonable >>> complement to the already good modeling tools in Softimage, but is >>>still >>> unnecessarily complicated and restricted, and this petition is meant to >>> show that the interest is there. >>> So please improve NURBS again and thus boost Softimage's usability in >>> that area a great deal! >>> Thank you!" >>> >> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" >>style="width:100%;"> >> <tr> >> <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font >>face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999"><span >>style="font-size:11px;">This communication is intended for the addressee >>only. 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