Hey all, First, if you didn't know already, Exocortex has a mini booth at SIGGRAPH this year. Come visit us (myself, Helge Mathee and Chris Covelli). We'd love to meet the artists that use our tools to make the magic we see on screen. :-) We'll also be showing off our latest plugins for Softimage including Species, Crate/Alembic, Momentum, Fury, ImplosiaFX, and SlipstreamVX. Here are the directions to our booth:
http://exocortex.com/files/ExocortexAtSIGGRAPH2012.png Second, I know that it is a bit sacrilegious for some to mention 3DS Max on this list, but in this case I believe it is okay since the tool we've created is designed to improve Softimage - 3DS Max workflows.... So without further ado, I can announce that we have just completed the 1.0 release of our Alembic integration into 3DS Max! We have worked hard to ensure that you can transfer data easily between 3DS Max and Softimage using this tool. We have also tried to match all of the current Alembic for Softimage features with our 3DS Max integration. The features that we support include: Meshes (including Dynamic Topology), Splines (including Dynamic Topology), Dummy Objects/Nulls, Hierarchies, Points and PFlow (including instancing), Asset Tracker, Time Controls, Transform Caching and Point Caching (including blending between caches), Material Metadata, Explicit Normals, Multiple UVWs, and V-Ray and MR-based Motion Blur. You can try Exocortex Crate for 3DS Max instantly by filling out a demo request here: http://exocortex.com/alembic/get_alembic Or you can send me a request for a full featured trial license: [email protected] Lastly, we are offering $100 off Fury 2 pre-sales and Species 1.5 for the rest of August, you can access these discounts via the coupon codes SIGGRAPH-FURY and SIGGRAPH-SPECIES -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals.
