Reason I'm asking is that Slipstream is really useful for certain things, but collisions and shedding hasn't worked for a long time, I get instant crashes if I enable it. It would be too bad if it was never fixed. Personally, I don't care about Maya support though.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Ben Houston <[email protected]> wrote: > > Fury works in Maya. Slipstream doesn't -- we tried a couple years ago > to make a Maya port but the Maya particle system is really slow. For > the same reasons the Fury port to Maya is slow as well -- or the > particle systems you want to drive Fury with are hard to create. > Which negatively impacts the usefulness of Fury in Maya. The real > solution would be to re-create a capable particle system that runs > paralle to Maya, like Krakatoa did, but that isn't of interest and a > ton of work. > > We are focusing on Clara.io for the time being, which is evident from > the contents of Exocortex blog... it is lower end that Softimage at > this time though.... > > Best regards, > -ben > Best regards, > Ben Houston (Cell: 613-762-4113, Skype: ben.exocortex, Twitter: > @exocortexcom) > https://Clara.io - Online 3D Modeling and Rendering > > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Arvid Björn <[email protected]> wrote: > > I see. What's going on with Slipstream and Fury by the way? > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Ben Houston <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > Has there been any updates to the suite over the last year? > >> > >> There has been a few updates and bug fixes, but nothing > >> groundbreaking. That is one of the reasons it was hard to turn this > >> into an ongoing revenue stream, there just wasn't much room for major > >> features to spur upgrades/subscriptions. > >> > >> Best regards, > >> -ben > >> Best regards, > >> Ben Houston (Cell: 613-762-4113, Skype: ben.exocortex, Twitter: > >> @exocortexcom) > >> https://Clara.io - Online 3D Modeling and Rendering > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Arvid Björn <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > Well that's certainly good news, we've had a few licensing issues > with a > >> > certain machine which refused to pick up a read license, fudging our > >> > renders > >> > on a regular basis. With a free version that will all be history I > >> > hope... > >> > =) > >> > > >> > Has there been any updates to the suite over the last year? > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Ben Houston <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Hi all, > >> >> > >> >> I figured you may be interested to know that Exocortex Crate, the > >> >> alembic suite for Maya, 3DS Max, Softimage, Arnold and Python just > >> >> went open source. You can download it for free and use it for free. > >> >> Details here: > >> >> > >> >> http://exocortex.com/blog/exocortex_crate_alembic_goes_open_source > >> >> > >> >> Best regards, > >> >> Ben Houston (Cell: 613-762-4113, Skype: ben.exocortex, Twitter: > >> >> @exocortexcom) > >> >> https://Clara.io - Online 3D Modeling and Rendering >
