Re: The future of the cg workflow and cg technologie and their cost in $$$ new version

2006-05-15 Thread Neil Cooke
Mark mentions Cad files. My own experiences involving frustration and vast periods of time-wasted have left me with an idea that maybe the Cad folk simply don't want anyone else to play with their files in any way at all. Perhaps its some kind of isolationist dependency thing on the part of their

Re: The future of the cg workflow and cg technologie and their cost in $$$ new version

2006-05-15 Thread standley and mungenast
Hey Mark, If you save from Acad to release 12 dxf, then you can import into rs3d (including linework, but not polylines with curves). I've also had pretty good luck using 3ds from acad, but your objects cannnot have more than 32000 faces, and it doesn't take lines. Chris Mungenast Mark

AW: The future of the cg workflow and cg technologie and their cost in $$$ new version

2006-05-13 Thread BT-3D
Ok, one last post to this topic ;) The point I wanted to mention in my last posts wasn't 'the one software solution' is best but the 'major application solution' is a lot easier to handle than 4 or 5 packages. You never will get all the tools you need in one software but if you get most of the

The future of the cg workflow and cg technologie and their cost in $$$ new version

2006-05-12 Thread Jean-Seastien Perron
I think that this list has become more than the Realsoft list. Maybe we should use this list only for technical questions regarding only Realsoft. I just think that more and more the workflow of cg studios is changing. Now, each employe use their own tools. -Each modeler use is favorit modeler.

AW: The future of the cg workflow and cg technologie and their cost in $$$ new version

2006-05-12 Thread BT-3D
Sorry, normaly I don't go into such kind of discussions, but in this case I think you don't see some points (if I understood you wrong, sorry): I just think that more and more the workflow of cg studios is changing. Now, each employe use their own tools. -Each modeler use is favorit modeler.

RE: The future of the cg workflow and cg technologie and their cost in $$$ new version

2006-05-12 Thread Jean-Seastien Perron
I like this conversation it keeps ideas in motions. You have 100 times more knowledge than me in comercial production. I must admit I have not that much. I hope you are right, because it is better if possible to work with only one software as long as you don't have to wait for a particular

RE: The future of the cg workflow and cg technologie and their cost in $$$ new version

2006-05-12 Thread Aidan O Driscoll
Hi Jean, Tim and all, Just to say - keep this topic going - even expand it. I think lots of listers may find the views of those participating to be really interesting, I know I do. I enjoyed the little joust with Carlo recently. I look forward to reading these posts from you guys. It might be