Hi Tenshi,

Hopefully we'll continue implementing stuff on our spare time, maybe the
community will team up to implement new features and keep up with the
Arnold releases.

Cheers,
--
Fred

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:17 PM, Tenshi <tenshi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was always excited with each new update, even though there were very few
> since last year. I was the one who bothered them on twitter every time to
> include the same options that Mtoa had.
> The program that gave them fame and money is now reduced to nothing. When
> Mtoa was not even born, it was Softimage who started the Arnold revolution
> in the eyes of many.
>
> The least they could do is make it open source, something that Autodesk
> does not have the eggs to do.
> I am very upset now, but I partly understand the decision but I do not
> share it.
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Jonathan Moore <jonathan.moo...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I had expected more of a silent death in the night.
>>
>> But as you say, at least it can live on if there are willing folk in the
>> community committed to keeping the distribution alive.
>>
>> On 20 February 2018 at 20:21, Andres Stephens <drais...@outlook.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Good move I say! Well.. sad support is going, but nice to know that it
>>> can still live on.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Draise
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From: *Frederic Servant <frederic.serv...@gmail.com>
>>> *Sent: *Tuesday, February 20, 2018 14:14
>>> *To: *3d-...@listserv.icors.org; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
>>> *Subject: *Softimage to Arnold going open source
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Softimage to Arnold* (or *SItoA*), the Arnold plugin for Autodesk
>>> Softimage is being made available to the community under an Apache2.0 open
>>> source license at:
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> This repository contains the official SItoA plugin source code. Solid
>>> Angle, the company behind the Arnold renderer, and now part of Autodesk,
>>> developed the SItoA plugin commercially from 2009 to 2017.
>>>
>>>
>>> After the Softimage end-of-life announcement in April 2014, Solid Angle
>>> committed to continue the development and maintenance of SItoA for at least
>>> a year, and then extended this period until July 2017, porting SItoA to the
>>> new Arnold 5 API along the way.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Governance*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please submit your issues and pull requests on github, the old Trac
>>> server will remain available for a while as read-only but we won’t accept
>>> any new users.
>>>
>>>
>>> We will continue to monitor and review pull requests submitted to this
>>> repo on a voluntary basis, but will not release official builds any more.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Acknowledgments*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Before it was open-sourced, throughout the years, SItoA has been
>>> developed by:
>>>
>>>    - Luis Armengol
>>>    - Borja Morales
>>>    - Stefano Jannuzzo
>>>
>>> With contributions by:
>>>
>>>    - Andreas Bystrom
>>>    - Steven Caron
>>>    - Julien Dubuisson
>>>    - Steffen Dunner
>>>    - Michael Heberlein
>>>    - Paul Hudson
>>>    - Halfdan Ingvarsson
>>>    - Vladimir Jankijevic
>>>    - Alan Jones
>>>    - Guillaume Laforge
>>>    - Thomas Mansencal
>>>    - Helge Mathee
>>>    - Eric Mootz
>>>    - Holger Schoenberger
>>>    - Frederic Servant
>>>    - Jules Stevenson
>>>
>>> Special thanks to all the users who passionately provided feedback,
>>> production assets, bug reports and suggested features during those years.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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