For those that don't exactly care about "support" and only look at what can work best for their, or for many situations, ....
Soft for more than just basic things, ....
- on it's own for it's overall general straight forwardness and workflow smoothness and being able to change things at any point.. among many little things
together with making all sorts of setups,
- In a big part because of it's stable non-destuctive base (already procedural),
but mostly of course because of ICE ( for -everything- you can drive with it )
... is still currently irreplaceable in what you can do, and how efficiently or "smoothly" you get to really all sorts of things that otherwise involve dealing with much more daily finnickyness, knowing how to program, super-specific plugins (if existing) or at least a script for every little thing.
Maya Soup Nodes? MCG? Cinema4D?
Maybe FE or Houdini engines could cover mesh processing but..
I don't think we would still be having this conversation if (only) it was for naustalgia.
Also got this from BUF in my mail,
Dear Bview users,
We are thrilled to announce the release of Bview beta. This is
the first version that will be distributed to all our users.
Several thousand people will get access to Bview today, and the
whole team at BUF is very proud of the work that was done to get
our product to where it is today.
http://bufsoftware.com/support/help-center/tutorials/tutorials-bview/
I find it encouraging (concerning the coming base DCC in the suite)
to see how ridiculously straight-forward Bview is (compared to say RV) while also seemingly advanced!
Looks like a super-flipbook :)
Also From their FB page,
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BUF Software Project Windows is our next target, we will keep you updated
In the BStudio description, I wonder what they mean by:
PROCEDURAL
NODE-BASED
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On 05/14/15 20:43, Sylvain Lebeau wrote:
A message of great nostalgia, sadness but also realism and share fullness.
sly
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On May 14, 2015, at 8:02 PM, Raffaele Fragapane <[email protected]> wrote:
Is it really an issue?
It's not like people have flocked to this list like flies to corpses to pimp and peddle. The non-Soft posts are come either from people who have explicitly been invited to the list by long standing members in time of crisis, or by long enough standing members, and I've seen Chris' name plenty times before. Personally I'm interested in seeing how others are coping with change (in ways other than ignoring its necessity, which is a viable strategy only for so long).
I see your point Matt, and I don't disagree, but while it's only fair that this list is used predominantly for those continuing to use Soft (we're still doing movies with it here at AL), the "Softimage Experience" now is also about other people who have used Soft sharing their experience in moving away from it as sad as it might be. Almost everybody, sooner or later, will have to walk that path, and there's nobody more indicated to advise than other members of this list.
I don't know, seems a bit of a storm in a glass of water to me.