I feel your pain, i really do..
I never had problems with Softimage in this regard, but we faced similar
roadblocks 10 years ago when we spoke with huge Studios trying to sell
them our realtime procedural content creation solution... Everyone was
amazed and loved the outcome. Unfortunately the tool was too different
and alienated all the resident artists, so we didn't come far with it
with - just a few hardcore users out there. But unlike Autodesk we made
everything open source when we stopped its production ;)
Chris
On 15/03/14 18:44, Graham Bell wrote:
I¹ve absolutely no doubt, but in all the time I¹ve demoed Softimage, even
pre-AD, there was never anyone who didn¹t like the software, tech or
couldn¹t see the potential benefits. However despite this, it wasn¹t easy
for people to simply adopt.
We could easily lead the horse to water, but never make it drink.
On 15/03/2014 17:34, "Christoph Muetze" <c...@glarestudios.de> wrote:
Not preaching a religion here... In the 15+ years i've been using
Softimage products i've "converted" more hardcore Max and Maya users by
just outrunning them time and time again than i can count. Admittedly
realtime graphics is a very special field of profession and also very
rare outside of the gaming industry so it's kinda easy to become a user
of a tool that was just not designed to deliver here... and those users
are more likely to learn a new app if its vastly superior...which
Softimage (still) is.
Chris
On 15/03/14 18:15, Graham Bell wrote:
Interestingly, you could flip that around and apply that to a Maya/Max
guy/studio talking about Softimage. In fact more often than not, they
did.
From: Christoph Muetze <c...@glarestudios.de<mailto:c...@glarestudios.de>>
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"softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>"
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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 18:04:56 +0100
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Subject: Re: Idea- Just keep Mental Ray and FBX support - Softimage
free w/Maya or Max or any Suite.
On 15/03/14 17:24, Greg Punchatz wrote:
I want to use the best out of the box 3d DCC app in the world, if one
day that is Maya, I am all aboard. Right now it is not, its kinda just
a fact.
I'm so with you on this..
We did take Autodesks offer a while back and upgraded two of our groups
seats to the Maya Entertainment Creative Suit. Mainly for Mudbox, but
also to have a deep look at Maya.
Fast forward 1 year and i'm more than convinced that Maya doesn't offer
what i need on a day to day basis.
It's not only that there are many things not available in Maya but also
that the tools that are available take more time away from me than their
Softimage counterparts. And in the field that i work in with its super
tight deadlines (where you have days, sometimes only hours to deliver)
every click counts.
If anyone can beat me with another tool i will instantly drop
Softimage. But this hasn't happened so far and i highly doubt it will
happen in the next 2 years with someone using Maya.
Chris
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