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[nourvfx]

yes thats right

[Hirazi Blue]

A slight detour back to the "easter egg" gustavoeb found, earlier in this thread: with "Crowds" in mind, Mark Schoennagels most recent entry of his Planet Softimage blog might get some new meaning, where he writes:

It's looking like a pretty massive release

[ace63]

Hm - might be an intended pun or not ;)
So I guess we might get behavior restored in a new ICE way?

[McNistor]

It's looking like a pretty massive release

Not a good idea to make it massive couz it'll take extra damage from Corruptors.

[Hirazi Blue]

Please do not read too much into my previous remark! I thought it to be a funny coincidence and wanted to lighten the mood of the thread a little. Don't go out buying/selling Autodesk stock on my account just yet...


edit -
In other news: Bellsey has (once again) deleted his "Softimage Sneak Peak" video. It's again unclear, why he did it, it might have been for the harsh criticism that piled up in the comments of that blog post or it might have been because of the uncovered "easter egg". Or one of a million obvious reasons I haven't even thought of. Like they say: "Whatever..."

[SreckoM]

Honestly, whatever ...

[ace63]

Honestly I think it is really sad for everyone to start a flamewar in the comments. The video was obviously made to show some smaller changes and not big features which need to stay undercover until the official announcement.
I actually liked the video and don't think Bellsey deserves all the flaming.

About the crowds thing:
This might actually just have been a custom compound or node under a custom category, so this is all just speculation.

[Hirazi Blue]

I agree on both counts, but lacking true info sometimes its fun/tempting to speculate... ;)

[Bellsey]

in answer to peoples speculation, yes I did remove the video and blog post. There was some negative comments, which being honest, didn't really bother me. People are entitled to their opinions, however I couldn't seem to make people at least try to understand where I/we was coming from and every reply I made seemed to fuel the fire even more. So I removed stuff before things got evem more out of hand.

[gustavoeb]

sad stuff... and then people complain SI does not get any love and care

[Nizar]

in answer to peoples speculation, yes I did remove the video and blog post. There was some negative comments, which being honest, didn't really bother me. People are entitled to their opinions, however I couldn't seem to make people at least try to understand where I/we was coming from and every reply I made seemed to fuel the fire even more. So I removed stuff before things got evem more out of hand.

Ops... I hope my comments didn't seems too harsh or explicit direct to you in anyway... if yes I'm really sorry about, and must give you my excuses.

As I wrote in other circumstance, I really like some AD men talk with customers in this forum and your effort is really good IMO.

[luceric]

Inside Autodesk, there is a push to address "little annoying things" and that will be reflected in 2013 marketing. It's part of a "we listen" push. It's a project for Max (as you could see on Youtube) and Maya, and the idea of that video is obviously to show the Softimage equivalent. However, for normal people outside the company who cannot possibly know that this is a marketing theme across products, it looks like an isolated demo of not very interesting fixes. This is just not what people want to hear right now, and 3dsMax didn't just make one video about minor fixes, there were a variety bits previewed and peeked at the same time.

[Bellsey]

in answer to peoples speculation, yes I did remove the video and blog post. There was some negative comments, which being honest, didn't really bother me. People are entitled to their opinions, however I couldn't seem to make people at least try to understand where I/we was coming from and every reply I made seemed to fuel the fire even more. So I removed stuff before things got evem more out of hand.

Ops... I hope my comments didn't seems too harsh or explicit direct to you in anyway... if yes I'm really sorry about, and must give you my excuses.

As I wrote in other circumstance, I really like some AD men talk with customers in this forum and your effort is really good IMO.

Apologies for a late reply, I am on US time and have been on the GDC booth all day.

Nizer - don't worry, I was more referring to comments made in direct reply to my blog post on the AREA and not any comments made here on these forums. From what I could tell, most of the AREA posts were from users who hadn't posted on here. The replies were not nasty or vindictive either it was just that I realised that any more replies on my part wouldn't of really been beneficial.

[McNistor]

Inside Autodesk, there is a push to address "little annoying things" and that will be reflected in 2013 marketing. It's part of a "we listen" push. It's a project for Max (as you could see on Youtube) and Maya, and the idea of that video is obviously to show the Softimage equivalent. However, for normal people outside the company who cannot possibly know that this is a marketing theme across products, it looks like an isolated demo of not very interesting fixes. This is just not what people want to hear right now, and 3dsMax didn't just make one video about minor fixes, there were a variety bits previewed and peeked at the same time.

Fixed annoying things is always a good thing, be they little or big, but what about the new stuff? When?! Or it has been said and I've missed it?

[SreckoM]

But we do not have little annoying things

[ace63]

Oh trust me we have...