Same for max:
http://area.autodesk.com/products/features/extension3dsmax
Wait, wasn't there a 3rd 3D application among those?
Am 08.08.2013 16:40, schrieb Vladimir Jankijevic:
so that's where all your subscription money goes to:
http://area.autodesk.com/products/features/extensionmaya
cheers everybody :P
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Jason Stambollian
<jasonsta...@gmail.com <mailto:jasonsta...@gmail.com>> wrote:
To me the similarity in situations between Avid getting DS and AD
getting SI
strikes me as both astonishing and unsurprising at the same time.
(like a paradox)
(like huuge industry standard holding conglomerates, absorbing
smaller perhaps intimidating and potentially gamechanging
counterparts )
But after a decade+, DS is still (not so minimally) supported,
(DS V11 Features <http://www.avid.com/US/products/avid-ds/Features>)
while the few DS users (far fewer than SI) have been complaining
about exposure and anticipating "the end" since Day 1 of the 'not
so new anymore' "regime".
Not that could make it easier to consider getting stripped,
assimilated and minimized as a "good thing" for any absorbed entity,
and of course there is lots of room for SI to be far less
"un-prioritized" without putting a dent, if not expand sacred
revenue streams.
But in the case of SI, it's not by chance that it can be this much
supported by it's own userbase.
General mutual support, but also SI users coming-up with things
that are nothing short of full blown features..
From in-viewport motion path editing driving SRT curves, to easy
yet advanced auto-rig creation tools,
plus a constantly growing a-rray ;) of nifty tiny to quite
elaborate ICE things that can do real things.
This level of support is perhaps in reaction to any possible &
relative arrested development from upstairs,
but "not by chance" because for instance, somehow 3DS will always
remain 3DS until it would be superseded by something else.
(without implying 3DS being at-all "bad", having it's own
strengths and niches)
But even after several years and several new (some very good)
features in these perhaps more mainstream solutions,
to this day (in 2013), anyone having experienced xSI (without
access to coding departments ) in the heat of all sorts of VFX
production contexts,
either tend to stick to it, or whish these other solutions were
somehow more like it in a variety of (very much core) aspects,
and that is highly unlikely to change until something relatively
revolutionary comes along.
(NOTE: no comment about how some solutions may have been made to
me more common)
As many of you here would surely agree,
I think it mostly has to do with how it can *quite inherently* be
as consistent, straightforward, & predictable.
how complexity is made simple,
or the particular balance ratio of artist/technical wherewithal
requirements to get things working, nice & get things *done*
while remaining just as "friendly" for those that can be more
technically literate or inclined.
Making the problem solving process of "3D" not so much of a pain
if not actually easy, if not actually fun
while giving very good likelihoods of having your experiments,
hunches, shots in the dark or whatever you happen to be cooking,
be fruitful.
(the everything working with everythingness)
Like making "what you had in mind", or making "original" or making
otherwise "cool" more accessible,
or like pushing the limit of what is actually possible within
given time/resource limits.
In any event, I think SI developers really weren't kidding when
they called-it "next-gen" : )
and that AD might want to consider that a <<true-er>> "SoftimaYa"
might be something that could more likely come out from scratch,
as opposed to merely adding (yet) more on top
(of something that may have been already well on the
"overcomplicated" side for a considerable range of project scales,
almost from the start).
Nevertheless, saying that "the bar is high" for a new thing coming
along would definatly be an understatement!
Thanks & Tip of the hat to you! : )
