Exactly Mr. Fregtman. The Polygonizer stayed in its initial release at ADSK. The tremendous work, Eric Mootz did with the Polygonizer to develop it further and make it a really outstanding work in that area was of no attention for ADSK. Not to mention the other plugins he developed. ADSK bought or licensed some of it in an early stage, incorporated it in a giving software and that's it. Polygonizer was kept in version 1.0 for Softimage by ADSK. Same happenend to Lagoa at version 1.0 as well.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Fregtman Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 12:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: H14 is out ! As I recall when Lagoa's ICE-based multiphysics simulator first released with Softimage it was not bought, but licensed. Same thing with Mootz's Polygonizer that AD bundled with Soft. That said, this year AD bought Lagoa Technologies, so now I'd assume they most certainly own it now. On Thu Jan 15 2015 at 6:48:54 PM Sven Constable <[email protected]> wrote: Yeah, Bifrost will never come close to ICE because it's ADSK. Remember what happenend to Lagoa. It was a bomb when it came out in 2010. Thiago Costa did amazing work to release version 1.0 of Lagoa. ADSK bought it and it never get any further attention. It was kept at version 1.0! No further development and Lagoa got buried. I'm not saying that Lagoa is on par with Houdini, it's surely not. But the power of Lagoa got wasted. sven From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 12:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: H14 is out ! Maya has recently got pretty close to catching up to XSI 5 and in less than another five or six years Bifrost should be on par with Moondust, and now Houdini has almost caught up to XSI of Lagoa times. By this pace in less than 74 years for Maya, and only a dozen or so for Houdini, we'll be where we would have been next year had Soft not been killed! Totally looking forward to 2026 and 2089! The snow is pretty cool though :) On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Sven Constable <[email protected]> wrote: Snow and sand reminds me of lagoa in Softimage on steroids. Go Houdini!
