> Unfortunately  it will be Softimages achilles heel if they don't find a way 
> off of it (which is unlikely given the very small dev team)
> COM doesn't scale the way new 3d apps require. To many  bottlenecks.
>

It's moot, but COM is fine, it's no more or less scalable than C++.
Firefox is entirely built with a cross platform clone of COM, called
XPCOM. The problem is that we made XSI only for a Windows NT-only
future. The mainwin decision was meant to be something temporary until
SGI died out.  It's not just COM, it's a 100% windows sdk app.

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Angus Davidson
<angus.david...@wits.ac.za> wrote:
>> Jumping into Modo for my first attempt at particles. Managed to get the 
>> following after my allotted 5 minutes
>
> pic.twitter.com/EDOKamNkkn
>
> Just used a plain cube as a poly source. Need to update that with a more 
> random rock ;)
>

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