I think you're extremely unlikely to see something like that. The only app that could possibly benefit and take the windows dependencies might be max, but rumors have long had it that the max team pretty much outright refused it back then betting the horse on a half arsed implementation of TP instead. That PM has, since then, been fired I believe.
Maya will be the first to receive Bifrost, and Bifrost is actually stand-alone philosophically and architecturally, so it might or might not be plugged into other software or become its own thing. I'm sure in the back of someone's mind at AD there's this possibility, or at least back-up plan, that if everything else goes to shit monopoly wise they could at least have that as a production hub and platform central to some markets. Given Soft was finally murdered in cold blood with the misguided intention of re-resourcing and re-focusing heavily on less efforts, and everything I heard on all channels pretty much sings the same song (sorry, no mustache twirling, cat petting backlit villain sitting on an iron chair whipping Chris and Maurice into performing unspeakable acts), I seriously, seriously doubt ICE as a code base will do anything except rotting on the vines. Bifrost though might soon be able to do a lot of the things ICE was good for, and a few more to boot. Just give it four or five years and a few buckets of early adopter blood on the floors and see! In the meantime, stick to Soft, look at Houdini, or just curl up and cry if ICE is a key part of your day; there is nothing, nor there will be for a few years, that can do exactly all the same things as elegantly within the domain of what ICE does well (though some other things ICE doesn't do so well at are possible elsewhere). Fabric has some visual programming cooking up as well according to Paul, but I don't know when and to what extent it'll be available and fruible. Right now I give it more of a chance than I'll give to Bifrost to be useful for something next year or two. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Katherine Rodtsbrooks < krodtsbro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I sincerely hope that Autodesk won't throw away what was working... let's > move Ice over to another package! > > -- > Katherine Jones > -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
