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the link was removed, was only an April fool anticipated (ADSK... never be precise...)

Not so bad, in my experience modo, LW and even Houdini had worse performance [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQLPlOHdmbI[/media] However, is a tool, is free, don't hurt at all install learn a bit. fear I seems a blender fan... :) No, I'm not a fan, simply I found it useful in many tasks. Edit...

Confirm what Mathaeus about blender viewport. With an empty Modifier stack viewport is good (expecially abilitating VBO and with add display tool can handle 10.000.000 polygons and many object without too much issue). Animation fluidity and playback is good in my opinion, better than modo. This is a...

Sorry, understand what you mean. Mark don't read this forum (probably), but I still want to apologize. To my partial defence, however, I ask him to understand how anyone can react to day remembering his words.

Mark Schoennagel is a liar, a big liar. Lie to customers is not marketing, and he is not the only liar inside ADSK. About acquiring softimage and make it open, as I said is more a dream, but again, why don't give a try? Can we lost something? A open source Softimage will have more users, the users b...

And if ADSK would like to sell it? I know they don't sell anything but with an appropriate money offer? We can try to make a survey trough site like charge.org or similar, collect signature and make a proposal for make softimage open source. I know softimage users base is small, but many users from ...

@Cacoman, seems Maya users are pretty sure is the contrary:
http://mayavxsi.blogspot.it/

Hey Mr. Pooby, if you'll open your own studio I can travel the world for work with you! :) About the different choice, all depending by the work you want do. I'm pretty sure I'll use my 2014 for very long time, but in the meantime I trying and use other software. Hope my experience can help someone:...

The image is probably a fake, where is Compositor (toxik)?

The only things remain RMB button, when you switch to LMB, is the moving keyfram bar directly into timeline, the rest is all LMB. I can live with this bug. What remain on RMB? I don't find nothing tbh for the day by day use in modelling, uv mapping e common tasks blender is more enough. I use softim...

If blender gets its UI design sorted out (lmb select as an option and consistency through the app) its a very good program. Its a lot like lightwave to me in that of you can just get past the 3d editor (which I detest in LW) , to where you put the scene together and render (which I love in LW) you ...

I can tell you from a long time Softimage use. (3ds max user before that) that Houdini could be a worthy successor to softimage. It's much father along in 90 percent of its features than Maya, and in the other bits, a free or cheap modeling system is a good option. Organic modeling is not is strong...

I doing characters for 3d printing. For my need softimage, zbrush and nettfabb are more enough

Netfabb is a free software (also exist a pro version), can measure your model and the mesh for printing:
http://www.netfabb.com/

don't use any cad software.

I do the job of fast prototyping practical everyday. Did you mean this (prototyping) for physical machine?

Bellsey is trying to reassure, if XSI future depend by Cory blog, well, with softimage also is doomed Autocad :) However, in Max underground Autodesk officially intervened for reassure the users (and they have less bad signals than us), Why no one can do the same here or on softimagemailing list? Ou...