Last night I have a revelation. I see why Autodesk killed Softimage. Guys, honestly how many of you can work with a standard, out of the box Softimage? I suppose most of us could work without any serious effort. I think the current version would be pretty much enough for me for years. What would Autodesk benefit from this? NIL. I might suppose even, that Maya and Max are intentionally uncomfortable to use, and lacks feature, because this way they might keep their Subscription program running.
I took a serious look at Maya and Max, and found those small little thingies missing that makes my Softimage life easier: 1. TAB switch of transformations modes 2. Manipulator can be seen always, even the object itself is outside of the view 3. Snapping system paired with the pivot repositioning 4. NON DESTRUCTIVE WORKFLOW!!!!!!!!!!!! 5. Shapes are stored in weightmaps (so I can modify the basemesh without worrying on the shapes) 6. I can merge skinned geometries 7. I can enter expression in numeric fields 8. I can drag and drop animations from one channel to another 9. I can save presets and reuse them anytime 10. And so on So tell me, Autodesk, how many of these workflow features are present in Maya or Max? You killed Softimage, because it works as it is. And maintenance (on nothing) makes more money. My opinion is to leave the Autodesk camp at all. Autodesk behavior proved, that your business decision cannot be based upon Autodesk's products anymore. We moved from Max to Softimage, because we doubled our working speed (at least). No other Autodesk 3d program can offer what we lost with Softimage. I hope one day all this shit will hit back on Autodesk. ALL. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sebastien Sterling Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 6:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Why MAX is not option for me. I think you are right. On 21 March 2014 03:36, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: FYI, Alembic is a Softimage 2015 feature, and neither Alembic nor OpenSubDiv have been ruled out for other products. I think it's time for this thread to end and people to take a break, there is nothing productive coming out of this thread. On Thursday, March 20, 2014, Sebastien Sterling <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Did you think Softimage users, would not of benefited from ___ This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. Crytek GmbH - http://www.crytek.com - Grüneburgweg 16-18, 60322 Frankfurt - HRB77322 Amtsgericht Frankfurt a. Main- UST IdentNr.: DE20432461 - Geschaeftsfuehrer: Avni Yerli, Cevat Yerli, Faruk Yerli
