Guys, No disrespect but Gary is a side show with respect to Realsoft and this list. The real elephant in the Room ( or in the corner ) - to coin that oft used phrase - is "WHERE IS RS IN THE WORLD OF 3D APPS at the moment?"
My two cents - its not at the races anymore. It has fallen WAY behind any of the other apps out there. Even Lightwave have recognised this - they have now stopped the old LW at v9.6 - any further development is now around the new CORE app, boldly they are starting from scratch, ground up. Buy LW 9.6 now and you get CORE straight away in its infancy - included in the price! Other apps of note - the relatively new kid on the block, MODO. An imminent new release is in the off - v4.01. Now thats the way to do things via what they call a REVEAL - This reveal is occuring AT the MODO Site ( www.luxology.com ). Straight away - the WOW factor to grab NEW USERS and old alike. Luxology have paid huge attention to education both vast free Video training available at www.luxology.tv and reasonably priced Video sets for $5-$25 each. I notice the last update to www.realsoft.info is December 2008. MARKETING, MARKETING, MARKETING ... And man, Realsoft needs alot of it. Robert - this is NOT TAKING AWAY from your efforts, but www.realsoft.comshould be at this moment winding up version 7 with a luxology type reveal inc video of new features in action and the like. RS needs alot of stuff sorted to get it back in the races. Major update / complete rewrite of Character Animation tools and proceedures. Greater attention to Import / Export - RS should be EMBRACING other apps - Collada, FBX, MDD. No app lives in a bubble. Users now have niche apps like ZBrush, VUE Infinite, Messiah, Realflow and the like alongside their main apps. OR may have a few other similar apps side by side - Modo, Silo, Blender, Poser, XSI, LW, 3D Studio, Maya ... Its a fact of 3D these days, different tools for different solutions. Realsoft 3d - the mothership - needs to get its act together. It may be even TOO late already, And thats my .02 .. Aidan 2009/4/19 Arjo Rozendaal <[email protected]> > Hi, > > I completely agree with Zaug, several nice people left this list because of > him. > > Arjo. > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > > Van: [email protected] [mailto:owner- > > [email protected]] Namens Zaug > > Verzonden: zondag 19 april 2009 16:39 > > Aan: [email protected] > > Onderwerp: Re: Some V7 info > > > > Jean-Sebastien Perron wrote: > > > Mark wrote: > > >>> Sorry if I should have inconvenienced or angered someone, I just > > had > > >>> to let it out at last. > > >>> Greetings > > >> > > >>> Martin > > >> > > >> > > >> I won't quote the whole post, obviously you have a point. A BIG > > point. > > >> But I am even worse myself - total neglection of website and > > >> (potential) customers... but I'm working on it, a life-long process > > ;) > > >> > > >> It strikes me as odd that soon after Garry was banned, the list > > >> collapsed. His posts were often offensive but at least there was > > >> PASSION... something this little community needs badly! > > >> > > >> About V7: I hope they will introduce a few more of these parametric > > >> objects (and finetune the existing ones - the Packer springs to > > >> mind), it's a brilliant concept. And hopefully, the new rendering > > >> engine's memory management will make the bigger plants renderable on > > >> 32-bit systems. And: MUCH more import/export options including > > >> textures... etc. I'd like to import RS file into Vue! Small chance > > >> the Vue programmers will ever include RS support but I have to admit > > >> I've never asked... > > >> > > >> > > >> thanks for the pages Robert, > > >> > > >> Mark H > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > Yes, Garry was really moving this userlist : ) > > > Now it's just Questions and Answers about problems. > > > > > > I have not done any 3D for 2 years now, just coding. > > > > > > I vote to bring back Garry and his terrible whip. > > > > > > Jean-Sebastien Perron > > > www.NeuroWorld.ws > > > > > > > LOL!! > > Indeed?! > > What did this PASSION evoke, did the community grow, did people > > contribute more, share more? > > OR..... > > Did it just usually make some traffic on the list of people attempting > > to defend themselves or console his troubled soul? > > > > I think it was more of a case of making him leave too late; I think > > the > > list had already nearly collapsed due mostly to him. > > Although he had many interesting ideas and points, he was unable to > > refrain from blaming others for his inability to understand concepts. > > No matter what anyone contributed, it was never enough for him. I would > > estimate he flamed half of the people on the list at some point, > > nearly > > all undeserved IMO. He inevitably resorted to name calling and other > > more "creative" methods of insult. He did his best to be obtuse in > > order > > to be able to throw out another insult or nasty comment about someone's > > method of presenting the results of their work. > > He left in his wake, many people who had contributed a great deal but > > had become hesitant to post anything to the list or forum, knowing it > > was likely to be attacked for some absurd reason; that the person had > > not written a full tutorial about it, etc.. > > > > I agree that RS has issues that need addressing but bringing back > > someone like that is is not going to help accomplish that. > > > > So, if you want drama in the form of drunken, near illiterates > > insulting > > each other for absurd reasons, find some crap on TV to fill the void > > (US > > network ABC is a likely candidate) , but I do not think we need it > > here. > > > > Just my .02, > > Zaug > > > > >
