Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass

[Jason S]

Maybe.. but the point is they are still availble,  and you can still buy Combustion 2008 today. Saying like "We had no other choice but to not make it available anymore" can indeed stretch credulity. >From Wiki.. Some of Autodesk's "retired" products are listed here: Lightscape 3.2 Was the worlds only radiosity rendering package at the time (1991) developed from work done by Donald Greenberg at the Cornell University Department of Computer Graphics.  The problem with this part of Autodesk's history is that it was a time of discovery in computer graphics, and Cornell was one of the birthplaces for the technology. In this sense Lightscape was more than just another product, it was an essential part of the development of rendering technology generally, and part of its evolution. Additionally the software came from a university research department and represented the start of a development cycle that users the world over were watching closely. Regardless, Autodesk purchased rights to the software and promptly discontinued its sale. A very primitive version of the radiosity renderer was incorporated into the companies 3d Studio Max product, whilst existing Lightscape customers and the product were simply dropped. The most likely reason for this was that Lightscape offered a number of features that were simply too ahead of its time and therefore did not offer the optimum economic return for the company. On 03/23/14 21:30, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 8:12 PM, phil harbath <phil.harb...@jamination.com> wrote: I wonder how much Composite or Matchmover costs every year.. while still being around... that is an interesting thought. for whatever reason those products (especially) Composite is used very little it seems. I have also wondered how this affects the suites, doesn't it devalue both of them, along with the lack of mudbox updates, I don't see how they can keep selling them at that price or maybe at all. Actually, Composite and MatchMover were not Suite features, they shipped directly with the products. They are no 2015 versions of them, afaik; their latest 2014 service pack builds will be free downloads for 2015 products clients.