Hey Jason, Thanks for the pics, that was around the time I started on SI|3D back then, and I remember being blown away by it. It's nice seeing it again.
Yeah PT was the one introducing subDs (I was in Milan at the time and met a few of the people involved, I'm sure everybody who remembers the red CDs remembers the horse head too :) ), but I don't think it was ever integrated, just around the yellow CD times you could buy Soft with it bundled, same for the green CD. I think it was called metamesh extreme. Those that came from LW5 at the time (tab to subdivide with smooth spline display) were in tears for the joy. XSI introduced SDS, both C-C and D-S at 1.5 though if I remember right, not 2 (which was the FX tree + hair big deal release, and the move to USB dongle licensing hell, that's when I started working for Avid), 1.0 was nurbs only though, and again I'm sure everybody remembers Mr Petit at sumatra beta times saying the SCM in XSI would have made everybody stop using anything but nurbs :P. It's amazing how that project actually STILL looks good so many years later.
