Just finished the final moves that we completely switched to Softimage. The best tool for modeling, having an awesome non-destructive modeling system, having versatile scripting system, and one of the best scene structure (groups, model nodes), and now we are forced to use some mediocre piece of software?????? I hate business, and I hate that a company like AD could buy Softimage to ruin it.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicolas Esposito Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 2:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Retirement. Considering the latest update of Soft 2014 I wonder if they will just release bug fixes If they'll open up the API/SDK maybe would be the last gift that AD will give us...but I strongly doubt it... 2014-03-04 14:09 GMT+01:00 Jens Lindgren <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: So lets assume the last version of Softimage will probably be Softimage 2016 SP1 then. That's two more years of development! Lets make those two years count and really try to push the dev team to invest their time into what really counts: Polish badly implemented features, fixing bugs and open up the API/SDK more. /Jens On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Sven Constable <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Beeing a small one man company, rarely doing freelance work at other companys anymore, I'll stay with softimage until I'll die:) I will update to the latest version, be it 2015 or whatever and I will be very happy for the next ten years. For the 3dsmax and maya users, it's not an ideal situation either. Because if AD integrates softimage's functionality into the other packages, it will be only a glimpse of the real strength of softimage. A half-arsed implemented sugarcoat on two gravestones (especially max) with stone-aged architectures that maya and max are. Seems strange to me, that the most modern software of all tree will be retired. In an ideal world ( with a company focusing on innovation and developing) it should be the other way around. Killing max first, then maya. Integrating some of their features into Soft. Of course we're not in an ideal world but in Autodesk world. Oh well. sven From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of John Clausing Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 1:24 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Retirement..... It also says "support till April 2016" As for me, as a freelancer, gotta go Maya. But I'm going to learn Modo and Houdini Sent from my iPhone On Mar 4, 2014, at 7:22 AM, Daniel Sweeney <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: So they have spoken. Slow transition to another DCC then it is. I will use soft for as long as possible, But time to get the thinking hat on. What is everyone thinking of going too? I am going to look into modo for my own work I think but will probably need to know a bit about maya for freelance work. utter bullshit, but not a shock to be honest. probably the worse thing that could do is alienate there user base. like the blind leading the blind. Daniel Sweeney 3D Creative Director [http://northforge.co.uk/www/images/emailsig.jpg] Mobile: +44 (0)7743429771<tel:%2B44%20%280%297743429771> Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Web: http://northforge.co.uk<http://northforge.co.uk/> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Stefan Kubicek <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Not that I know of. And it says at the top: "Slated for release in 2015?" What? Was it announced - been in lectures all morning? 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