It’s been a rough time ever since the acquisition of Softimage by AD. And the community has been held hostage with maintenance ever since (similar to the situation Softimage|3D to XSI I might add). Our company has dropped maintenance for four licenses two years ago and last year for the remaining six.
It came basically came down to one thing: We decided what kind of customer we didn’t want to be. As customers of Arnold, Exocortex and Nuke we’ve had unmatched customer service from their vendors and we couldn’t cope with the situation we were in with AD any longer. From what I gather SideFX is yet another company with such a great reputation to customer service. And judging from their on forum and odforce there’s an awesome community out their. If you treat them with respect to their culture (aka don’t be a d*ck about what has worked better in your past) you’ll be helped at once. As Jordi already mentioned here and in the SideFX forums, there is a lot to like in Houdini. Just don’t expect it to be Softimage, just as you wouldn’t expect a layer based compositor to work like a node based one. Andy On Mar 09, 2014, at 12:49, Jordi Bares <[email protected]> wrote: > Once you see how responsive Side Effects Dev team is you will wonder where > were the dollars going at Autodesk.
