I agree with Andy and Francois here. Main reason Soft is crashing is combination with Arnold, Redshift look development is just great compared to Arnold. Yes going to main take to change parameter, crazy... But I got used to stay in main take and just change rendering take from drop down box. Not perfect I know but not sooooo bad I'd say... And Houdini nodes, just great, copy paste from scene to scene, just change paths for vdb's and alembic, not Soft still but far ahead of Maya(waiting for their new passes system, I see lot's of copy paste from Soft, or it's CUT paste now :/)
Cheers. Ivan On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Francois Lord <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andy. > > Did you move to Mantra, or stayed with Arnold? > > Softimage crashing too often in lookdev is the #1 reason why I'm actively > looking elsewhere. > > > On 19-Aug-15 10:35, Andy Goehler wrote: > >> We at Fiftyeight moved on from Softimage to Houdini for scene assembly >> and rendering. While Houdini’s offerings may not be the designed/perfect >> pass system currently, we’ve managed to adjust to a level of comfort. >> Shading and lighting productivity has gone way up. Houdini has proven to be >> very stable during shading and lighting, contrary to my frustration with >> Soft crashing unacceptably often. >> >> We were not looking for the best solution currently available either, we >> were looking for a platform to build upon. And are very happy with Side >> Effects as a software vendor. Licensing, Bugs reports and fixes, feature >> requests and implementation and daily builds make us a satisfied customer. >> >> Andy >> > > -- Ivan Vasiljevic - Lighting TD Founder, Digital Asset Tailors - web: http://digitalassettailors.com/ email: [email protected]
