That was part of their agreement, this way he could continue to develop it, continue to make money off of it and license the newer version in the future. It would be different if autodesk hired him and said he couldnt develop the software anymore. We got best of both, a usable tool with basic functionality for our maintenance costs and if we needed more power we pay a little more to Eric
*written with my thumbs On Jan 15, 2015 4:31 PM, "Sven Constable" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! >
