Hi Adrian - sure, I understand. We had to make a call about where to focus our resources - we decided that building the platform was the most critical thing to do, rather than trying to monetize the modules. Building a complete, artist-ready application is a significant investment and it's very hard to justify it - we have to do things where we see enough money coming from it to sustain the company. I think we'll see 3rd party devs using Fabric as a plug-in framework this year - Eric Mootz posted some thoughts on that: http://fabricengine.com/2013/12/fabric-for-third-party-developers-eric-mootz-first-look/
That said, we definitely want to be viable for smaller studios - and sooner rather than later. There will be elements in 2.0 that will be of interest to everyone. Paul On 27 February 2014 13:20, adrian wyer <adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com>wrote: > i think Jordi has a similar (mis)conception about Fabric as many of us > do, we saw the amazing fur 'experiment' and other demos, and viewed them as > purchasable plugins to our current architecture...take my damn money > already! > > > > however i think the power is in enabling studios to develop their own > 'plugins' > > > > the downfall for me is that like many studios, we have NO r&d budgets (try > working on TV docs and you'll see!) > > > > so we have to look to solutions we can purchase as a plugin or find a work > around... > > > > a > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Jordi Bares > *Sent:* 27 February 2014 18:17 > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: new upgrade policy > > > > I have the feeling I won't have the resources to build these kind of > tools, looks to me like you do tools for R&D which is great but we don't do > R&D, in fact, very few people do. > > > > Therefore I am looking at Fabric Engine with a lot of interest but I don't > picture it yet.. may be I simply don't get it yet and I am very happy you > got the MPC deal as surely you guys deserve it for the amazing technology > you have develop but I still don't see it. > > > > May be is simply the marketing needs to up its game? > > > > I would love to know a bit more about your roadmap because if I could fill > the gaps in Houdini with FE I would rather do that and keep a simpler > pipeline. > > > > thanks in advance Paul > > > > Jordi Bares > > jordiba...@gmail.com > > > > On 27 Feb 2014, at 17:58, Paul Doyle <technove...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 27 February 2014 12:54, Jordi Bares <jordiba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Fabric Engine looks very promising but I wonder what their business model > really is so I am quite cautious... The world is full of great ideas but if > they don't make money that is the end of it. > > > No idea what you're getting at here Jordi - we recently closed a global > site license deal with MPC. Interested to understand what your concern is > so I can address it... > > >
