Looking online I cannot find any other visible information about Bifrost. The guy was talking about a node-based editor similar to ICE ( in the future or could he show us something? ), but based on the video is just particles simulated ( externally ) and a couple of deformers for them...and again, its just fluid simulation...what else? what other then fluid simulation?
And really, I thought Bifrost was going to be integrated into Maya...but I cannot find any information on that as well....so...is it going to be, as Gerbrand was asking, a standalone replacement fo Softimage VFX tools which you need to pay for? I'm not sure if AD have the balls to ask to pay for Bifrost, but if they do that they'll give you a brand new tool ( lets call it a plugin ) which as of now is capable to do fluid simulation, no node based editor and awkward workflow, while ICE has been around and used widely in the last couple of years, showing everyone what could be achieved with it.... Is this really the future? an external GPU based plugin? is this 3DS Max all over again, which its useless without plugins? 2014-03-18 10:28 GMT+01:00 Emilio Hernandez <[email protected]>: > After watching the incredible new Bifrost, It is years behind ICE at least > from what they proudly show. For me it looked more like a plugin > "integration". Where one app invokes another app and you have "inside" > functionality within the host app. > > I even think that Vue for Softimage/MAX/Maya is more "integrated" than > Bifrost. Ooops I hope that Vue is not the next acquisition of Autodesk.... > > I see no way how at this moment Maya 2015 is a real sustitute of > Softimage. > > Yes Maya is the future... in about 10 years. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. > > > 2014-03-18 3:06 GMT-06:00 Gerbrand Nel <[email protected]>: > > I know we get Maya for free but,do we get bifrost for free, or do we pay >> for this "softimage replacer" ? >> G >> >> >
