Same for me. I would not use an AD product even it was for free. It's not pure stubbornness but I learned a few things about AD since the retirement of Soft and with that deeper understanding of how the company works, I can say it's just not the company for me (to be polite). I'll stay with XSI for the next couple of years. Companies I work with had not yet switched entirely but some using Modo and C4D as a second tool.
I don't panic if a software is not longer actively developed. There are a few companies that worked with a softimage version several years behind an actual release. Why not. Don't change a running system. If it works, it works :) I think this attitude is the main reason for the upcoming rental model by AD (and was the reason behind subscription). In ADs mind, their costumers did not update their software often enough so they tried Subscription and called it an "Advantage Pack". Effectively it was more a beta testing you paid for. You received a version 2012.5 whats not an official release and therefore more proned to bugs than the official release six months later. But this is another story. :) sven From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Olivier Jeannel Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 5:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Continued use of Softimage question To "bounce" on what Graham wrote, I'd like also to add that I'm staying completly out of next (whatever it will be) Autodesk product. I don't know if there are still many very stubborn people like me. My feelings are the same as a greek vs Goldman sachs... On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Christopher Crouzet <[email protected]> wrote: Yes, you can! http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini14.0/nodes/shop/vm_geo_file On 20 August 2015 at 21:46, Francois Lord <[email protected]> wrote: What about disk space? Can you, in Mantra, reference alembic deforming geometry directly so it doesn't have to be part of the ifd file at each frame? On 2015-08-20 10:40, Sandy Sutherland wrote: At Sunrise we had 5 IFD generating machines (Engine lics), and I wrote a tool to submit renders from Houdini to RR that had the main render job wait for the IFD job to finish, before starting - easy to do. The IFD generating was pretty quick, so we did not really have machines waiting to render. On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Ciaran Moloney <[email protected]> wrote: Pretty sure that applies also to Mantra renders. But, most places have a smaller pool of engine licenses and export all frames to .ass or .ifd for rendering. Since export times are usually shorter than render times, it works out quite efficiently. But yeah, definitely another expense to consider. On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Mike Donovan <[email protected]> wrote: One thing that is a bummer with HTOA is that you will need to purchase a Houdini Engine license for every node on your farm unless all the geometry creation is done before rendering. This cost be quite steep … essentially a $500 additional cost to each Arnold license. -- Christopher Crouzet <http://christophercrouzet.com> http://christophercrouzet.com
