On Sunday 19 April 2009, Mark wrote: > > 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. > > That's interesting stuff Aidan, thanks for the links! > > I have to defend RS here a bit - second nature ;) > It's a really productive tool to me and still worth every penny I > ever spent on it - starting with V1.4 on an Amiga. An experienced > user can work insanely fast with RS! > VSL would be the thing I'd miss most dearly if I'd migrate to > other SW. > > I read some reviews about Modo, a mixed bag but generally very > positive. But it's not complete: no character animation, no > particles... clearly one rather small part in the pipeline. > But the Luxology website is great, hats off. > There was a discussion before, about allround beasts like RS vs a > long pipeline of separate specialized tools. Both have their cons > and pros. If only RS would be more integrateable in studio > pipelines... it would only add to its value. > Their Plant and Building tools are worth it alone! Why not sell > them as plugins for 3dsMax or Modo ;) > > > my 2 more cts (this is getting expensive) > > -Mark H
I think your point about it being easier to integrate RS in to other pipelines is a valid point but I imagine the various developers would need to collaborate on this, and effectively license each other's APIs for it to work. This may cost RS quite a bit of money though, especially if they need to buy into a partner program where there are already established partners. On the other hand, the lack of postings on this list might just be indicating that people are having few problems with RD3D and are just getting on with using it, so don't need to use the list very much. Sure, it's nice to hear about what other folk are doing, but when they're busy, people haven't got time to stop and chat about unimportant stuff. LeeE
