well there is no point in arguing s letter box still hosts other tuts. but if i recall correctly, these dvds from 3d tutorial had a big announcement on the base and your blog that they were being "given" away free. no guidelines given when you gave them away; in fact the community was enc...

BTW - Just so that no one misunderstands... I'm not trying to be a PITA -- ok? The thing is that I have made this stuff available at no cost for a few years now to anyone who wanted it. This material is now OLD it is obsolete and like everything else in life, nothing lasts forever. So the time has c...

i dont know.. legal reasons sounds fishy to me.... why now, whatever reason it is, the damage has already been done. yea? the moment they were made public [free] they became copyleft [GNU or GNU General Public License] they became educational resources, no one can claim them as their intellectual p...

Hirazi Blue wrote:One thing to add, as I just noticed it:
Maybe you could get someone to remove the "3D Tutorial" advert in the XSIBase sidebar as it still keeps occassionally popping up... ;)

I know.

I've been asking for those ads to be removed for ages but nothing is ever done about it /

Joe

One would think so, especially if one sees the lack of response to the requests for a bugfix list and a known issues list on the XSI Mailing List. However, for Softimage 7.5, officially the second release under Autodesk, such lists still were provided... :-? Let's hope someone @ Autodesk Softimage ...

Hello Joe Thanks for the info on the 3DTutorial material issue. I hope all your legal matters work out in your favor. Looking forward for future materials from 3DTutorial. Bobby Hi Bobby, Thanks! I'm not too concerned about the legal issue, we've have reached an agreement whereby everyone is happy ...

Hi Rob, Thanks for the note and for understanding why I had to do this. BTW - this legal issue has nothing to do with Autodesk or any of other authors I worked with over the years. It has something to do with technology...but that is all I can say. Regarding the future.... Yes, I've got some cool th...

Hi everyone, Joe Saltzman here, I think most of you know me. Anyway, just wanted to say a few short things about why Letterbox studios is no longer distributing my training material for XSI any longer. Firstly, I like to say that there is NO problem whatsoever between 3DTutorial.com and/or Letterbox...