Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-15 Thread Tenshi Sama
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer I suppose I should have phrased that There has literally never been a single public champion of Softimage at a decision-making level. Was there ever a SIGGRAPH, usergroup meeting

Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-15 Thread Bk
Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 1:27 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my

Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-15 Thread Doeke Wartena
, 2014 1:27 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer I suppose I should have phrased that There has literally never been a single public champion of Softimage at a decision-making level. Was there ever a SIGGRAPH

RE: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-14 Thread Maurice Patel
@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer I suppose I should have phrased that There has literally never been a single public champion of Softimage at a decision-making level. Was there ever a SIGGRAPH, usergroup meeting, or anything of the sort where anyone

Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-14 Thread Mirko Jankovic
...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 1:27 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer I suppose I should have phrased that There has

Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-14 Thread John Clausing
954-7134 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 1:27 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer I suppose I

Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-14 Thread Morten Bartholdy
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer I suppose I should have phrased that There has literally never been a single public champion of Softimage at a decision-making level. Was there ever a SIGGRAPH, usergroup meeting, or anything

Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-13 Thread Eugen Sares
-- Originalnachricht -- Von: Maurice Patel maurice.pa...@autodesk.com An: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Gesendet: 13.03.2014 09:34:16 Betreff: RE: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer Hi Tim, I don't think anyone here at Autodesk would

Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-13 Thread Paul Griswold
Unfortunately it doesn't seem like Autodesk had any idea who Softimage users even are before making the decision to take away our main tool. It's been said over and over again. If we felt Maya or Max were the best tool for the job, we'd buy it. But there are dozens and dozens of reasons why Maya

Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-13 Thread Bradley Gabe
Since the day Autodesk bought Softimage, it's been one cruel joke. There has literally never been a single champion of Softimage at a decision-making level, right? It's been the red-headed step-child since the moment of the acquisition. I'm not sure this statement is entirely true. The

Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Marshall
Was wondering where your voice was Brad! On 13 March 2014 17:21, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com wrote: Since the day Autodesk bought Softimage, it's been one cruel joke. There has literally never been a single champion of Softimage at a decision-making level, right? It's been the

Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-13 Thread Paul Griswold
I suppose I should have phrased that There has literally never been a single public champion of Softimage at a decision-making level. Was there ever a SIGGRAPH, usergroup meeting, or anything of the sort where anyone with any sort of authority at Autodesk called for more exposure, more marketing,

Re: Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-13 Thread Bradley Gabe
Not really. Which is why my top 5 list for Alastair would have been something like: -Chinny -Halfdan -Ronald -Schoennagel -Jen -etc... On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: I suppose I should have phrased that There has literally never

Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Eugen Sares
I'm not quite among the top 10 3rd party developers (wrote a couple of topology operators though for curve editing and extrusions, with the classic SDK), but allow me: The operator SDK has the limitation of not allowing to write to clusters/cluster properties. Therefore it's not possible to