Sorry Brad, thanks for the heads-up. My ,/. are swapped as well...
It´s time to say good-bye to this xp64 install and boot into win7. The chinese symbols came with job. It´s hard to get rid of them, once you´ve been there. I´m writting UTF-8 thought? What would you suggest? Cheers, tim On 14.09.2012 01:22, Bradley Gabe wrote:
De愒r Mr. L惴ydec愉er (a.k.a. Tim?), Some愀ne went and re惴laced all y惻ur apos愒rop愉es with random Asi愀n te惴t symbols. Sinc惴rely, Your friendly neighborhood Grammarman. PS - Sorry about the non-愒/equitur/. On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Tim Leydecker <bauero...@gmx.de <mailto:bauero...@gmx.de>> wrote: Hi Maurice, isn愒 Softimage available as part of those affordable student license packages? Afaik, it愀 pretty easy nowadays to get legal access to Autodesk software for education if you愉e a student but I惴 not sure everybody actually knows how easy it is to get at that? At least for a student, the times are better than they where 10 years ago. For me myself, I am glad to soon have Houdini (up to 1920px) and Blender at my fingertips for those bits of smoke I need or can arse myself into doing actually but I don愒 expect AD to clone SideFX愀 learning/access model any time soon, even if I now have decided to skip my subscription beyond 2012 releases and to wait for an "all inclusive suite" package update promo to get back up to date next year when I can better say what I惻l actually need and bring may Maya/Max/Softimage/Mudbox/__Motionbuilder pack back into 2013, along with a nice render engine or two maybe... --- In terms of suites in general, I was very happy to get a Max/Softimage bundle including Mudbox and Motionbuilder. That gave me the option to extend to Max, while having Maya (as well here) for my gross of income and Softimage for my personal favourite tool. Admittedly, I didn愒 really use Max much in the end and am currently more or less completely loaded with getting (back) into ZBrush and all sorts of other stuff related to modeling, lighting, shading and rendering but the real bonus I惴 still seing is what the suite bundle gave me access to. I could have also ended up using FumeFX and Max mostly or ICE, the options where there. You just can愒 do everyting well. Personally, the suite gave me the freedom to lean to one side, even roll over and take half a year off and just do whatever I feel like getting better at doing it. Softimage is a very good base for that, regardless of the 10+ years of Maya I could show off with. --- Long story short, I am glad there愀 the suites and I hope for a catch all promo but I dislike SAP benefit marketing pushing, late subscription fees or Maya/Softimage sp1/sap/sap_sp1/.. version horrors. That really, really doesn愒 help stability, especially when working remote and with mixed levels of technically savy people (like producers). I like vanilla or mint condition... doesn愒 need to be the latest and greatest but solid. The 2012愀 did that nicely. I惻l have to wait for CrowdFX... Cheers, tim On 14.09.2012 00:25, Graham Bell wrote: I'd just like to point out that Stephen wasn't fired, he was unfortunately among the layoffs. I know it's being pedantic, but let's keep to the facts. From: softimage-bounces@listproc.__autodesk.com <mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-bounces@__listproc.autodesk.com <mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] On Behalf Of Sam Cuttriss Sent: 13 September 2012 22:50 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.__com <mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: In case you missed it.. Stop thinking of advertising/ demonstration/ documentation and education as isolated entities. in doing so you can make the money you spend massively more productive. look at the success of stephen blairs blog: http://xsisupport.com/ ( Its criminally insane you fired him by the way ) its a go to site for anyone using ice. With a little work something like that could be dressed up as a showcase of softimage work and a technical reference of production techniques. An inspiration to students, and something to pique the curiosity of professionals using other softwares. _sam
