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#3 can only really happen if those features were already in progress before you shipped the last release, because you can't do anything in the two months of development between the service pack and the extension release code freeze, it's too short. In the last 5 years, Softimage had two extension releases the Lagoa one (2011.5), and 2012.5 where we rolled up some work from consulting (does anyone use the Annotation Object? anyway that came from the consulting team) plus padding to make it look bigger (http://tinyurl.com/k5xzbv3). The facts are that it's very difficult with one unified team to two release at year. Anyway 2012.5 was a diversion, IMHO. On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Octavian Ureche <[email protected]> wrote: > I bumped into a cgchannel article that said, quote: > "Autodesk has confirmed to us that it won’t be releasing an Extension for > either package this time around: something that we suspect will be more of > an issue for Softimage users than it is for MotionBuilder users". It was > that "this time around" that probably confused me. > > Oh well, nothing to see here then. -------------------------- To unsubscribe: mail [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe" and reply to the confirmation email.
