>From my experiences Newtek products never live up to the hype and sometimes never materialize even after selling licenses to customers. I gave up on anything Newtek has to offer long ago. From anyone else might get excited about something like this, but Newtek has failed to deliver on so many times I would be a fool to get sucked into their hype machine again. Did they ever add an undo to their Dope sheet editor? I fondly remember having to reload my last save whenever I would accidentally change or delete the wrong thing in the editor..
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 7:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: ChronoSculpt Not a fan of NT, nor I trust them much after the Latewait Core shuffle, but from what little you can tell from the video you might be selling it very short. In first place when something like this comes stand-alone infrastructure and geo/scene management are important. Highly parallelized Alembic caches with read-ahead alone is something you would really, really struggle to do in Soft, not to mention you have to start from a 3rd party just to begin (Exo's), or invest considerable resources on the propietary front to even open the file's stream :) The shapes don't look like they are just world space shapes, and they are supposed to be fast/cheap, which leads me to believe it's a relatively efficient local (and coherent) delta riding on top of the caches. While it's all mathematically trivial stuff (and Soft has most of the piece and has had them for years in fact), making it perform on multimillion entries without blowing memory budgets and offering a decent editing interface (to be seen if it does have one) is, implementation wise, non-trivial, or at the very least effort intensive. Lastly it seems to deal quite well with island recognition, scene objects, and large meshes, all relatively seamlessly. It's hard to tell much more given this is pre canned footage (and someone somewhere is inferring it was sped up more than a fair bit), it might be another LW core in the end, but I don't think, if it realizes the potential they promise, it should be dismissed as something you can easily re-assemble in another software, not when scale is a feature. I invite you to try and load an alembic cache with 4000 objects and a few hundred thousand points in Soft, and save (and manage) a few shapes both coherently and discretely across the objects. If you get to edit it at more than a frame or two per second to begin with that is ;) On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Bk <[email protected]> wrote: As far as I can see, it's the same as taking a frame into something like sculptris, remodelling it then applying the resulting sculpt back to the model as an offset shape in world space. You could do this on a subdivision if you wanted detail. It's nice to have a dedicated tool to do it rather than export-sculpt-import but if we had the sculpting tools in softimage, I think we could do everything this is doing, and a whole lot more. On 23 Jul 2013, at 21:44, Ben Davis <[email protected]> wrote: Hey guys, I keep a curious eye on Newtek as I started off on Lightwave 6 (no mocking, I don't have time to use it but I still like their product), and this really caught my attention: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iskaa6krwzQ#at=87 More info on the website: https://www.lightwave3d.com/chronosculpt/ Anyone using it already? -- Ben Davis www.moondog-animation.com +1 (423) 313 9304 -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
