I'm only seeing demo builds. Is that what I need to download?

MauricioPC wrote:I don't understand why we can't have options ... Rental and Purchase.

Apparently it's because the market doesn't want us to have options.

That does it! I'm not renewing my Softimage subscription! Actually the whole earnings call is a pretty interesting read. Another quote from Carl Bass: Three years from now it will be surprising to me if anybody is really running very much perpetual desktop software. It's also interesting that Bass b...

Funny how, in mine interpretation, he's talking a lot here about softimage compounds and how you can share it with others. The same way Houdini does with it's digital assets system. There's even a ICE print at the beginning! Yes, interesting how he says they plan to make the assets shareable with o...

forton wrote: What NLE's are you guys using?

I use Premiere but I'm looking forward to trying out the new DaVinci Resolve 11.

Ben

forton wrote:
Wouldn't that break fabric engine?

Thanks Ben!

I actually never checked. Hopefully fabric would find the path to PySide.

Any chance you installed Fabric Engine? Sometimes that can cause a conflict. That happened to me but there's a simple solution. I'd have to look it up though.

I believe the Gigaboolean compound was the Carve CSG library wrapped in an ICE node.

Well that's an improvement. But does that mean that we would need to maintain a Maya subscription in order to continue using Softimage if we go with the transition offer beyond 2 years? It seems unclear. The updated Autodesk announcement says: If you need to use Softimage after February 1, 2016 you...

Well that's an improvement. But does that mean that we would need to maintain a Maya subscription in order to continue using Softimage if we go with the transition offer beyond 2 years? It seems unclear. The updated Autodesk announcement says: If you need to use Softimage after February 1, 2016 you ...

I'm really confused about this. I am deeply saddened that Autodesk have canned Softimage. However I want to keep on using it, long after 2016. I accept that I will probably have to start learning Maya or Max in the meantime but I definitely still want to keep on using Softimage, even if it's eventu...

azurecgi wrote:
Not really! What I hope happens is that SideFX take advantage of the situation and offer us a Houdini license for a good 'crossgrade' price

Well, the real expense in Houdini isn't so much the initial license cost, but the relatively high annual maintenance cost.

Yep.
When this was at Autodesk Labs it was "Pinnocchio." Before that it was a free service at Mixamo. The characters have been useful to me when I need some quick models for Unity.

Ben

mc_axe wrote:Anyone can tell me if they plan open cl support any soon?

Elk head 800k hairs BF-GI 39.7?! secs

No. On the Redshift forums they said not to expect OpenCL support in the next several months.

Redshift is now in open beta: 2 options: Free: Free with no obligations Access the full version of Redshift without restrictions for 30 days No limit on number of installs Trial falls back to restricted mode (renders with watermark) after 30 days Paid: $100 per license (1 license = 1 machine) Unres...