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by luceric
01 May 2019, 02:57
Forum: News
Topic: Bifrost Beta
Replies: 22
Views: 5292

Re: ICE return as standalone ?

This is what the blog on The Area actually says: We are exploring building procedural environment layout capabilities based on Bifröst to provide out of the box workflows (Bifrost is our procedural engine used in 3ds Max and Maya) this just means they are thinking about making a scatter tool that's ...
by luceric
30 Apr 2019, 03:54
Forum: News
Topic: Raytraced based viewports coming?
Replies: 9
Views: 2243

Re: Raytraced based viewports coming?

It's the same thing Arnold demoed
by luceric
19 Apr 2019, 23:20
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Where can you still buy Softimage?
Replies: 47
Views: 11307

Re: Where can you still buy Softimage?

Animation Master WAS what I was using, before I decided to try softimage, because it looked easier, like Max, to learn and figure out :). But that was back in 2005/6 when I had A LOT more patience... If it wasn't clear, the point was that the guy (who is also working on a fan film) has been stuck i...
by luceric
19 Apr 2019, 01:38
Forum: News
Topic: Tyflow - how difficult can it be?
Replies: 9
Views: 2297

Re: Tyflow - how difficult can it be?

what do you mean when you wrote "how difficult can it be?"
If you mean the development, the original particleflow was also made by just one guy, Oleg Bayborodin. There are lot of one people projects.
by luceric
09 Apr 2019, 03:13
Forum: News
Topic: Redshift got bougth by Maxon
Replies: 10
Views: 1564

Re: Redshift got boughth by Maxon

sad but perhaps inevitable, with Autodesk having Anorld GPU in beta. Newtek was also acquired last week, and before that The Foundry was tossed around. I think it must be the shopping season. (it often precedes a stock market crash, unfortunately) It wouldn't surprise me to see Avid and VRay getting...
by luceric
09 Apr 2019, 03:00
Forum: Programming
Topic: Can you remove clusters with Object Model? (not using "Application"")
Replies: 9
Views: 4388

Re: Can you remove clusters with Object Model? (not using "Application"")

It's just style, whatever you do is going to call the same code anyway that the deleteobj command runs. you can speed things up by turning off undo, that's all
by luceric
04 Apr 2019, 02:46
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Where can you still buy Softimage?
Replies: 47
Views: 11307

Re: Where can you still buy Softimage?

I saw this related story the other day, a guy that's been hanging on to his 32-bit mac copy of Hash Animation Master to make his animated shorts, by fear of having to learn something else. https://fanfilmfactor.com/2019/04/02/bad-news-turns-into-good-news-for-stalled-trek/ now he's rendering real-ti...
by luceric
20 Mar 2019, 03:23
Forum: News
Topic: "Adobe eyes £200m bid for The Foundry"
Replies: 20
Views: 6026

Re: "Adobe eyes £200m bid for The Foundry"

The Foundry was sold twice since this old thread.
The Carlyle Group-> Hg Capital (£200m)-> Roper Technology (£410m)
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-rele ... tions.html
by luceric
09 Mar 2019, 03:32
Forum: Modeling
Topic: SI crash while using the proportional modeling tool
Replies: 16
Views: 6726

Re: SI crash while using the proportional modeling tool

looks like a graphics card driver crash. but you didn't specify which graphic card you have
by luceric
05 Mar 2019, 22:08
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Softimage ice & Houdini
Replies: 15
Views: 3774

Re: Softimage ice & Houdini

ICE was developed for deformations for character animation, and secondarily for particles and dynamics. The tech of point locators is all about interpolating parameters on surfaces and not merely animating particle points.
by luceric
04 Mar 2019, 22:12
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: low-cost 3D software (alternatives to Blender?)
Replies: 55
Views: 5485

Re: low-cost 3D software (alternatives to Blender?)

Daniel Brassard wrote: 01 Mar 2019, 05:22 TrueSpace is still available as Open Source
Sadly not
by luceric
14 Feb 2019, 22:12
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: low-cost 3D software (alternatives to Blender?)
Replies: 55
Views: 5485

Re: low-cost 3D software (alternatives to Blender?)

read this wikipage on the history of Carrara.. it's scary how metacreation ended up screwing the consumer 3D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrara_(software) An ex employee also bought Mirai from its parent, and that ended up not going anywhere. Also interesting, Electric image https://en.wikipedia...
by luceric
14 Feb 2019, 17:02
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: low-cost 3D software (alternatives to Blender?)
Replies: 55
Views: 5485

Re: low-cost 3D software (alternatives to Blender?)

The UI of blender may not be great, but the UI of these 99$-500$ products isn't so great nowadays either, plus the rendering is obsolete. I'm always surprised by how many software Daz3D managed to buy and bury. I had my hopes on Carrara. Anyway, your question I think is unanswerable, because I think...
by luceric
07 Feb 2019, 20:34
Forum: News
Topic: Maya 2019 released...
Replies: 29
Views: 5191

Re: Maya 2019 released...

I saw on xsiharis 2002 so 16+years... proff of devellopers not listning users at all, so essential feature Sure...render region is there since the beginning of XSI. I was referring to the ownership of all the "patents" concerning Softimage by AD.. ;) I think all that patent stuff is a myt...
by luceric
31 Jan 2019, 05:14
Forum: General & Troubleshooting
Topic: how to customize
Replies: 5
Views: 3479

Re: how to customize

you can set a default scene for Softimage
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-r ... tings.html
by luceric
16 Jan 2019, 17:06
Forum: News
Topic: Maya 2019 released...
Replies: 29
Views: 5191

Re: Maya 2019 released...

no cheers for finally getting the softimage render region in Maya? :P