Hi Martin, Alan, You mean we'll have to wait till AD become bankrupt to get a chance seeying Softimage's codebase... damn, that can take more then 2 years I guess :)
Yeah ok, there is this Microsoft vendorlocked piece of software inside Soft, so its not only VB that could be ported to JScript. So besides the totaly unintuitive scripting engine, we'll have to thank M$ for his excellent strategy... But I could imagine that its a matter of the right software wrapper. Then do you think Maya & Houdini were done with MacOSX in mind? Looking with a dependency-walker at them both shows that they dont look that different to XSI. Cheers, Rob Alan Fregtman <alan.fregt...@gmail.com> : > They will not sell it; as Martin eluded to, that would not make sense. > > In the parallel universe where they did, I'm sure it was more than $20m > because the purchase reportedly cost them ~$35m, so I imagine at the very > least they'd want their full initial sum back. > > An OSX port will never happen and can never happen. The Linux version > relies on Mainwin to have the Windows API on hand and there is no Mainwin > for OSX. (You'll have better luck running XSI under Parallels, if you are > keen on staying in OSX.) > > > Lucky you, both Houdini and Maya run on OSX. :p > > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Martin Yara > <furik...@gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','furik...@gmail.com');> > > wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Rob Zack >> <robzac...@gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','robzac...@gmail.com');> >> > wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> If AD is stopping Softimage, do they sell it? >>> >> >> No, they don't and most probably they never will. It wouldn't make sense >> to sell it, business wise. >> >> >>> What about buying the sources, making it open-sourced and porting to >>> MacOSX. >>> >> >> Impossible. >> >> And about MacOSX it's been already discussed thousand of times. >> It's not possible. If it were that easy it would have been ported years >> ago. >> >> >> >>> Curious if they want more then 20 m $ ... and if one would find 20.000 >>> people spending 1000$ for that :) >>> >> >> You would need to convince Autodesk to sell it first. >> >> Martin >> > >
