I agree with Raffaele. I think it may be fine to complete your current tool projects for SI, but starting new ones just doesn't make too much sense. I'm not a TD (just a guy who script a little) but I'm planing to finish and polish a few tools I have so I can use them meanwhile I have some Softimage projects but that's it.
I suggest to put your efforts in making Maya or whatever you chose, a little Softimage like. That would be awesome. Personally I plan to increase my Maya scripting skills in the next months, and hopefully try to make it less painful. Martin On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Raffaele Fragapane < raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Then go for it. The guys who left the industry when Soft|3D was shut down > and both Lightwave users still writing in LScript will welcome you with > open arms :) > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Alok Gandhi <alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Raff, Well I would like to humbly disagree with your 'corspe' analogy. >> People will still continue to use Soft. Maybe not big shops and huge >> pipelines but those small shops and lone artists that have been using it >> for many years. >> >> I think AD stopping development does not mean that it will not be used. I >> now for myself that I will use it to get some odd jobs done. For a few >> years, I was palnning to a do a personal animated short, I think now I will >> be starting on that project in a few months. It will be all soft. >> >> Of course, I have developed for Maya, Houdini and Nuke as well and will >> continue to do so. Fabric is awesome and I want to contribute there as >> well. But that does not mean I will abandon doing things in soft. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Raffaele Fragapane < >> raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> Can I humbly suggest TDs spend their time more productively instead, for >>> both themselves and the community, and start looking at other vendors? >>> >>> We can wish upon a star all we want, but, as hurtful as it might be, >>> Soft is dead and will not be brought back to life. You can tazer the corpse >>> until it spasms, but it won't be life. >>> >>> What you COULD do, however, for the sake of the same people that made >>> Soft what you loved as a software and as a community, is make good use of >>> your time to diversify your skills and give support to platforms such as >>> Fabric. >>> >>> Hopefully I won't get flamed or misunderstood for this, but honestly, >>> there'd be no worse thing to see than seeing people doing further damage to >>> themselves by clinging to a corpse after the damage done to the app and its >>> history. >>> Look at LW to see the depth of sadness this can get to. I'd rather the >>> people I've come to know and respect on this list don't devolve into what's >>> left of its userbase. >>> >>> You also get to make more of a difference for the future of industry and >>> vendors if you spend your time on a project that has a chance to live, and >>> you get to learn a lot of things that Soft is entirely too far behind on >>> for you to properly learn on. >>> >>> Sorry, might sound cold, but it's a helluva lot more practical. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Alok Gandhi >>> <alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Guys, >>>> >>>> Calling out all the Soft Tool developers/ TDs out there. I know there >>>> are lots of awesome out there for Soft but let's create more tools for the >>>> community. >>>> >>>> >>>> I am willing to devote my time to develop more tools and will ask the >>>> same of other developers. >>>> >>>> If anyone has a request / idea for a Tool from Soft that they need, >>>> please post it here. >>>> >>>> Developers please feel free to take on this projects. >>>> >>>> If anyone likes this idea and can quickly setup a web page (like >>>> redmine ticket system), it will be great. >>>> >>>> Cheers ! >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it >>> and let them flee like the dogs they are! >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> > > > > -- > Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it > and let them flee like the dogs they are! >
