Not to add to the conspiracy theories here, BUT..... could it be the plan of Autodesk all along was to give M&E a try, but not enough to succeed? The reason being this - they want to emulate the IBM model. Buy patents & intellectual property, then collect royalties.
It requires no R&D, no developers, no support team, nothing but lawyers and accountants. Think of all the tech Autodesk has bought over the years. So they murder Softimage, and give less and less attention to their products each year, eventually killing Max, Mudbox, Motion Builder, etc. And finally the proclaim Bifrost a failure, and retire Maya. IBM is still around because they are a patent machine, not because they make computers. -Paul On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Artur Woźniak <artur.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought Bifrost was something more than just a node striped Naiad > shuffled in Maya . Is it more or just a fluid solver? I know "just" may not > give its justice but still. > > Artur > > > 2014-03-19 12:16 GMT+01:00 Jordi Bares <jordiba...@gmail.com>: > > Have a look at the feature list of mudbox and motion builder (big shame as >> this tool is very very good) >> >> Totally and utterly abandoned. >> >> If that is caring about your customers this is not the way to show it. >> >> >> Jb >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 19 Mar 2014, at 08:39, Daniel Sweeney <dan...@northforge.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Not really impressed by these releases. But autodesk releases have not >> impressed for a while. Stagnant with A bit of bolted on tech. So OK stuff >> in Maya but once again seems like all bolt ons. >> >> I think max is next on the chopping board or they will just let's it sit >> and every release will get less and less. >> On Mar 19, 2014 8:17 AM, "Jordi Bares" <jordiba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Its really nice research, and simple to implement, this is the kind of >>> tool that will cost you peanuts to integrate in max and Softimage isn't it? >>> >>> I will certainly read the paper properly. >>> >>> Jb >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> > On 19 Mar 2014, at 02:31, Luc-Eric Rousseau <luceri...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Paulo César Duarte >>> > <paulocdua...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> Agree, and the geodesic voxel binding skin algorithm, Blender already >>> have >>> >> at least 1 year ago or more. In other words, no innovation, only >>> >> implementation of existing tools. >>> > >>> > Got a link to that? Geodesic voxel binding is research by Autodesk. >>> > >>> >>> >
