Unfortunately now Autodesk needs to have the same set of cahoonies, to make the app we all wish to use ;) ________________________________________ From: Luc-Eric Rousseau [luceri...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 August 2013 07:10 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: Yost Group - related to the Naiad/SIGGRAPH discussion
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Angus Davidson <angus.david...@wits.ac.za> wrote: > > I always felt 3dsR4 was where it peaked . having to work with max 1 and 2 for > me wasn't a very pleasant experience. I was very grateful to move off off > that to a version of Softimage|DS > > I think the Autodesk management is underestimating how concerned their user > base has become. Max 1 and 2 must have been a pretty tough time, given that it's a new app that didn't work with any of the DOS plug-ins, and .. was written for Windows NT, which nobody wanted to use or had the hardware for. (8 megs of RAM, are you crazy?) This was a time when people were still a couple years away from giving up hacking their config.sys and autoexec.bat to tweak the 640k DOS memory. Of course XSI had it owns OS choice issues and is still trailing the old SI|3D in animation performance as well. Still, being the vastly popular plug-in platform that it is, Max is the app we all wish we could have made. = <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. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. </span></font></td> </tr> </table>
