its confusing for sure, but if you look at compatibility from the point of 2012 and not 2013 it would be forward. 2012 isn't compatible with scenes moving forward in time, but is with scenes moving backward.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > Weird. 20 years of working in cgi I've never heard it that way around. A > scene from 2013, won't open in 2012 because it's not backwardly compatible. > Surely that's right? Isn't it? > Whatever > > On 16 April 2012 21:47, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Peter agg has the correct definition. Forward comp is loading newer data >> in older builds >> >> On Apr 16, 2012 11:06 AM, "Chris Marshall" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> No, it's the other way around. >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, 14 April 2012, Peter Agg wrote: >>>> >>>> <pendent> >>>> Isn't forwards compatibility what we're after in this case? >>>> >>>> Backwards compatibility = being able to open older whatevers in the >>>> latest >>>> Forwards compatibility = being able to open latest whatevers in an older >>>> </pendent> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 14 April 2012 15:37, Ed Schiffer <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I really thought Softimage had backwards compatibility before going >>>>> Autodesk... >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >
