I tried to touch on this with the last sentence in my reply. Their decision axe Softimage seemed irrational to us because we are emotional but if you reduce it to numbers, it made sense. It is a truth I don't like to admit but it is a fact that Maya and Max user numbers are just higher, so of course you axe Softimage and consolidate the dev teams.
Others have touched on it, here and on the Arnold mailing lists... This case is different because they don't have 3 competing renderers now, they have at most two (ART in Max). Softimage wasn't a plugin for 7 different softwares, it wasn't 'agnostic' in the same way Arnold is. Since the Softimage purchase and axing, AD has bought Shotgun. This is an example of AD staying out of way and more value being brought to the product (additional access to RV). These are reasons why I think this case is going to be different. I am cautiously optimistic though, in 2 years or so we will see for certain. On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Artur W <[email protected]> wrote: > Many AD corporate decisions seem irrational and strange to us. > Why should this case be any different? > > I truly wish everything would go as we wanted. Constant progress and > development of Arnold. > > >
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