Maya's a sweet cloth plugin. :)
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Sven Constable <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > > > > > > >
