Then go for it. The guys who left the industry when Soft|3D was shut down and both Lightwave users still writing in LScript will welcome you with open arms :)
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Alok Gandhi <alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com>wrote: > Raff, Well I would like to humbly disagree with your 'corspe' analogy. > People will still continue to use Soft. Maybe not big shops and huge > pipelines but those small shops and lone artists that have been using it > for many years. > > I think AD stopping development does not mean that it will not be used. I > now for myself that I will use it to get some odd jobs done. For a few > years, I was palnning to a do a personal animated short, I think now I will > be starting on that project in a few months. It will be all soft. > > Of course, I have developed for Maya, Houdini and Nuke as well and will > continue to do so. Fabric is awesome and I want to contribute there as > well. But that does not mean I will abandon doing things in soft. > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Raffaele Fragapane < > raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Can I humbly suggest TDs spend their time more productively instead, for >> both themselves and the community, and start looking at other vendors? >> >> We can wish upon a star all we want, but, as hurtful as it might be, Soft >> is dead and will not be brought back to life. You can tazer the corpse >> until it spasms, but it won't be life. >> >> What you COULD do, however, for the sake of the same people that made >> Soft what you loved as a software and as a community, is make good use of >> your time to diversify your skills and give support to platforms such as >> Fabric. >> >> Hopefully I won't get flamed or misunderstood for this, but honestly, >> there'd be no worse thing to see than seeing people doing further damage to >> themselves by clinging to a corpse after the damage done to the app and its >> history. >> Look at LW to see the depth of sadness this can get to. I'd rather the >> people I've come to know and respect on this list don't devolve into what's >> left of its userbase. >> >> You also get to make more of a difference for the future of industry and >> vendors if you spend your time on a project that has a chance to live, and >> you get to learn a lot of things that Soft is entirely too far behind on >> for you to properly learn on. >> >> Sorry, might sound cold, but it's a helluva lot more practical. >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Alok Gandhi <alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hey Guys, >>> >>> Calling out all the Soft Tool developers/ TDs out there. I know there >>> are lots of awesome out there for Soft but let's create more tools for the >>> community. >>> >>> >>> I am willing to devote my time to develop more tools and will ask the >>> same of other developers. >>> >>> If anyone has a request / idea for a Tool from Soft that they need, >>> please post it here. >>> >>> Developers please feel free to take on this projects. >>> >>> If anyone likes this idea and can quickly setup a web page (like redmine >>> ticket system), it will be great. >>> >>> Cheers ! >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it >> and let them flee like the dogs they are! >> > > > > -- > -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
