Bullshit! Maya IS a very good addon to Softimage yet. Not to mention 3Dsmax... a great modeller and a superior plugin to Softimage!
cheers ;) From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mirko Jankovic Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 6:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Softimage and Alembic? "Well, we're responsible for the windows port of Alembic and other integration work. And we develop feature with it like the GPU cache, alembic caching in xgen, support in scene assembly and other things."... for Maya.. forgot to add that ;) Sry couldn't resist. Keep making Maya better addon for Softimage Cheers On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]> wrote: Well, we're responsible for the windows port of Alembic and other integration work. And we develop feature with it like the GPU cache, alembic caching in xgen, support in scene assembly and other things. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Sergio Mucino <[email protected]> wrote: >From what I heard, the reason behind this is that the Maya Alembic plugins and integration were actually not developed by Autodesk, but by SPI. They sort of handed it over to Autodesk (I don't really know the nature of the partnership between SPI and Adesk). So, technically speaking, Autodesk has not really developed any Alembic plugins for any of its applications. They all come from 3rd parties. It just happens that SPI decided to hand them over their Maya plugins. That's all I know. On 19/11/2013 7:30 AM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: I just checked 2014 features (on 2013 here) and no mention of Alembic, so I guess it is still not available out of the box. Does anyone know if AD are perhaps planning to include Softimage in the Alembic club anytime soon? I know I can go get Exocortex Crate to get Alembic support for Softimage. Maya has it from the factory and our management is asking me if there are plans to incorporate it in Softimage too.
