Sam, I know you have some serious resentment for LW and for Modo's heritage. I think you made your point, and anybody thinking Modo is a replacement for the whole extent of what Soft could potentially do would be a fool, nor this is being implied anywhere by Brad, Tim, or even myself when I forwarded Brad's offer.
For many, however, it might be a good companion to Soft in the years to come, or a good companion to Maya (given Maya sucks at both modelling and rendering, both things Modo caters to respectfully). Have some faith in people that they are not complete morons who can't operate at the most basic levels and will throw money at the first person coming in with some marketing, and have some respect for the decisions of those who did buy into on what you might think of as a whim, that they might have done it for reasons and motives you don't share or understand. As for Brad's motives, he wrote a lengthy post about the dichotomy of it which I think has been reposted all over the place already. You can find it here if you haven't read it: http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/discussion/topic.aspx?f=3&t=85630 You get way, waaaay too personal when LW or Modo are involved. I thought you had done remarkably well insofar, don't give in now and start replying to every single mail mentioning Modo having a go at them, please. Trust your peers on this list to be discerning enough on their own if you have no recent and unbiased knowledge to share. P.S. I don't own Modo, Brad offered me nothing when I approached him, and I haven't asked him anything. I have no plans to use it, nor particularly care for it at present time, but that's because for what I do it's not viable. But then for me Houdini isn't viable either, yet you will find people swearing that using it made their arms bigger, their penis longer, and gave them super powers. To each their own, man. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Sam Bowling <[email protected]> wrote: > From the sound of it, there are a lot of people who have or are ready to > put down a lot of money to buy Modo. I think this would be a huge mistake. > As you said, Modo is not a complete replacement for Softimage, but the > offers (such as the one from Brad) do indeed imply that. Honestly, these > kind of offers happen every time a major 3d software (or probably any major > software) gets discontinued. Brad didn't just do this out of the goodness > of his heart (Although I do think he is a good guy), he did it because he > knew he would be able to get a lot of new users. Maxon did the same thing > when all the lightwave developers bailed and started Modo. I still have my > copy of Cinema 4d sitting on a shelf where I put it after I realized that I > really didn't like the software. > > > > >
