softimage 2011 is near.....

[DEI]

http://www.infinity.no/softimage_2011.htm

Rendering Sandbox
ICE Kinematics
Automatic Face Robot® Lip-Syncing facial animation toolset
100 New ICE Compounds
100 New mental ray® renderer Shaders
NVIDIA® PhysX ® 2.83 plug-in
Camera and Render Slate
Multi-Camera Rendering
mental ray 2011
UV Unfold Enhancements

[Hirazi Blue]

Great news...

[just kidding]
Only the "Rendering Sandbox" makes me wonder:
- sandbox as in place for young children "to train their social skills", but mostly an excuse to get dirty, or
- sandbox as in immense virtual environment, you can wander around in for weeks, without having a clue what to do...
[/just kidding]

[Rez007]

Awesome!

I am looking forward to seeing some videos and a detailed list of enhancements/features.

[Hirazi Blue]

Both webpages (the one linked to above & the one the quoted features were on) seem to have mysteriously gone offline...

[pimeto]

I cant wait to see whats the new Mental ray
Lol, this is the most important thing that i expect to be improved totally!
We see....

[Hirazi Blue]

But now there's official confirmation: Autodesk Softimage 2011 press release

edit: or knock yourself out with all the details

[pimeto]

Well, the info about Mental rye 2011 is scanty, but the way i see it we will get the next version 93.4..5.4.324..23..43..3.4.53

Not a new, optimized render.
I dont see anything mentioned about Iray thought!

[Hirazi Blue]

Mark Schoennagel's take on it all: Planet Softimage - Softimage 2011

More words on the Softimage WIKI

[pimeto]

Except the Face Roboto lip sinc, the other stuff is like......something that had to come with a patch, not with a final release...
Omg, Autoshit politics.... they are gonna sell "nothing" for a lot of money. Jesus! A lot more shaders to speed up and optimize the render ? Omg... wtf! ?!
They wonderful Softimage is heading on the same road as 3dsmax - one archaic soft, full of stuff/plug ins - instead of rewriting the program to be optimized and working perfectly!

[NNois]

nobody noticed this url ? http://area.autodesk.com/softimage2011/community on the area anouncement, did official community is back ?


EDIT by Owei: Please use the URL-tags to mark links..!! Thanks ;)

EDIT by NNois: Well the link is now active and no, it's not a new community website

[Hirazi Blue]

@pimeto
Hmmm, that sounds a bit harsh...
Looks like a very solid update to me!
The "hero feature", stable/"supported" ICE Kinematics might surprise us all!
And somehow I get the feeling this is a release with updates "all around", not just one feature enhanced, but several main aspects of the software addressed by new features...

I'm going to miss the legacy particles, however...

[owei]

@pimeto
..the guys developing SI "are good" ones and always had been "good ones". In my eyes, if this hole stuff works stable, it´s worth the subscription fee. For me, countless new features are useless, until they work properly. I think it´s been a big effort for the developers to reduce the number of bugs, which is not always an easy task. There were many of them, most users did not even noticed (only programmers did ). So let´s wait and see how everything works out.

ICE kinematics are so cool and hoping that rendering with MR works better in 2011 (well, did not 2010 just began...? )

Great job you "SI-guys" and keep it up..!!!!

cheers,
oliver

[Rez007]

Does anyone know if there is a release date yet?

[Hirazi Blue]

I read somewhere: Officially it's early in April...
I believe the Norwegian site referenced in the first post mentioned the 7th of April...

[giyomu]

love the ICE kinematic and that face robot things is tasty, could be super time saving for a work i did like that XD hehe

I am still at veriosn 7.01 , but hmm maybe it's time to get in the train, because despite the new feature here and here , I believe the core engine get some serious work behind the hood

[CiaranM]

Except the Face Roboto lip sinc, the other stuff is like......something that had to come with a patch, not with a final release...
Omg, Autoshit politics.... they are gonna sell "nothing" for a lot of money. Jesus! A lot more shaders to speed up and optimize the render ? Omg... wtf! ?!
They wonderful Softimage is heading on the same road as 3dsmax - one archaic soft, full of stuff/plug ins - instead of rewriting the program to be optimized and working perfectly!

Really? ICE kinematics is pretty huge. Also to name but one, all the shader authoring stuff is exactly what you ask for - optimization and vastly improved workflow.