If you'd like to have nex and you'd be willing to pay 400 pounds for it, you're in luck, Topogun is 100$ and Nex is an API limited, poor man's copy of what TG can do :)
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Sebastien Sterling < [email protected]> wrote: > Na, you don't have to do that, i can see this is something you needed to > get off your chest. I'm a relatively new Softimage user, there can't be > that many of us every year, i bought this package, i'm still paying it > off... > > Sometimes you need to feel that the package you use and enjoy is going > somewhere and not just slowly decaying into irrelevance. > > I don't think its a stingier community, if you think about it Maya users > in the majority they never pay for anything, The company will batch buy > scores of licences. In our small community, it isn't realistic to expect > individual users to pay prices geared towards an industry giant, this is > why in my reasoning, we need more animation studios and fx studios using > softimage as a viable pipe, and in turn why Fabric is so interesting, cause > it seems to be built with this goal in mind. > > i don't think anything in our industry should be like the app store, i > doubt there are enough Maya users let alone softies to make that work, it > just sounds like the kind of thing AD would do > > I can think of lots of things I'd pay 299/399 £$€ > > for instance, i'd do so for as previously mentioned a sculpting module > similar to Artisan in maya or max with push/pull/relax/smooth... > or some of the Nex utilities like drawing rows of polygons, click > bridging... > > > But as you put it, I'm an individual, i can't guarantee that my needs will > reflect that of the next user. > > > For what its worth FE is the kind of thing i would buy if only to show > support. > >
