No news on this?
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Arvid Björn <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> >
