I've been very busy lately so I'm a little late to this thread. But I have to say that this is the best Christmas present ever! Especially because the AD implementation of Alembic in 3ds Max is a total joke and completely useless.
You rock Ben! Have a Merry Christmas! /Jens On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Arvid Björn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >> -- Jens Lindgren ------------------------------------ VFX Supervisor & Lead TD Magoo 3D Studios <http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/>
