Matt nailed right off: "Any non AD package would do". Yes, totally agree.
But to answer the direct question: 3dcoat has given me free creativity. Also substance designer and procedural shaders with real pump to tweak settings on end user (once you've deployed your shader). Yes, there are things out there for software users that still tickles for creativity. On Aug 5, 2016 5:51 PM, "Artur W" <[email protected]> wrote: > Maya still sucks balls. I can't even cry anymore. > > Houdini rocks. > > ARtur > > 2016-08-06 0:16 GMT+02:00 Matt Lind <[email protected]>: > >> Basically any non-Autodesk product will do. >> >> I'm looking into Houdini right now as they've made a ton of improvements >> in >> the past couple of releases. I gave Fabric Engine a short run a while >> back, >> but due to it's lack of maturity and lack of features relevant to my >> work, I >> had to let it go. I may revisit it in the future. >> >> In big picture terms, I'm focused more on writing code than using 3D apps >> these days. Node interfaces have their advantages in production work, >> but I >> tend to find myself in situations where I need new functionality of the >> application as a whole, not just new exposed features within it's already >> defined framework. >> >> Matt >> >> >> >> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 15:39:05 -0500 >> From: Bradley Gabe <[email protected]> >> Subject: Reminiscing >> To: "[email protected]" >> >> Hi list! We haven't chatted in ages, and I wanted to see who I could dig >> up >> out of the caves with a little reminiscence about the good old days. >> >> I found this thread >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/xsi_list/nmus1TnkON8> from the >> Friday Flashback archives and it reminded me of a time when an XSI TD had >> amazing power for creative problem solving at his fingertips. Even the >> drudge work of shot tech support had, for a time, become fun again, when >> you could cook up something clever through sheer experimentation (and a >> spoonful of stubbornness). >> >> Having been out of the loop long enough now, just curious where everyone >> has gone to find that same kind of satisfaction? What goodies has the >> industry offered to empower the user? >> >> >> >> -B >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >
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