Not that big of a deal for me since we usually haven't had them. Seems like just another minor reason to try to stir something up. The rental option was a pretty decent feature that would be beneficial where the extension really wasn't expected. On Sep 20, 2013 11:57 AM, "Luc-Eric Rousseau" <[email protected]> wrote:
> When you're on subscription, you get a few benefits including 1) free > update to the next version if it comes within the sub period 2) > rights to run previous versions 3) access ahead of time to features of > the next release *if they are ready*. > > #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. >
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