Stefan, I totally agreed with you rant....hopefully we are wrong
We are sitting on the fence about upgrading our licenses, at this point
we will have to take a hard long look.
We have been with Softimage/XSI since the early '90..
Leoung
On 9/10/2012 3:07 PM, Stefan Andersson wrote:
Just to throw some more gasoline onto the fire.
So the value to a 3dsmax/Maya user would be to use Softimage as a
particle plugin. Everything else their respective Software is good at.
I know you don't agree with them Graham, and it's not you who
"wrote/made" this :) It's been said over and over again on this list,
*it doesn't seem that Autodesk cares about Softimage.*
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And it's for that reason alone that I don't recommend anyone (anymore)
to buy or learn Softimage. Autodesk representatives on this list is
trying to assure us, but apparently those people have absolutely NO
contact with the Marketing/PR people. It's not that we have been
asking for much, but the way they market Softimage and the way new
users and studios look at Softimage... well... you get my point.
I don't want Softimage to be a good companion to Maya&3dsmax, I want
Softimage to kick their ass and make all users leave their software
and use Softimage instead!! But that is not in Autodesk view a good
thing. And for this reason I think Autodesk is really bad for Softimage.
Why is attitude and "kick butt" mentality a bad thing? it's what keeps
a lot of us going and improving our-self. It's what makes us trying to
reach for those extra 10% in a production.
Am I pissed at Autodesk? you bet you sweet ass I am. I spent years
behind Softimage and got companies to buy the software that were Maya
based, and really really tried to get it to work...
With ICE I had big hopes. But... Autodesk had little incentive to kick
Maya/3dsmax out the window. They made Softimage into a particle plugin.
So what happens now?
I know it's pointless rant, and it just adds fuel to the fire. But
it's difficult to talk about something positive when it comes to
Softimage. It's like having a Formula One car, but you live in the
country side and no one understands why you have it.
Sorry for the rant everyone.
best regards
Stefan
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Graham Bell <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Perhaps worth pointing out that this is a Entertainment Creation
'Suites' magazine and of the course the two main flavours
(Ultimate aside) for the Suites are Maya and Max. And therefore
the three packages shown in the image are all including in the
Maya/Max Suites, hence the reason for trying to show their value
to those respective users.
From: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of
Paul Griswold
Sent: 10 September 2012 15:08
To: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: In case you missed it..
This is the kind of stuff that makes me really dislike Autodesk:
http://yfrog.com/h0t6exxtj
I'm glad to know Softimage is a particle system that has
single-step interoperability with the apps in the "Areas of
Excellence" (Max and Maya).
-Paul
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