With unevitable 'I hate to say that', having something like Fabric, integrated into Maya, sounds like great idea. Even in case it won't be updated anymore, because sucess of such system probably depends more on usage, not that much on radical updates.McNistor wrote:Pretty sure Fabric will be bought out by Autodesk or other big player at some point not too distant in the future. Not trying to rain on anyone's parade, I genuinely believe it will happen. Any great piece of tech created by a small group will attract the sharks and unless those creators are some religious nutties (like those from 3dcoat) they will sell it to profit from their work - it makes sense, anyone with half a brain would do it.
For now, let's say there are three, DCC app related visual programming systems that worth: Softimage ICE, Fabric and Houdini VEX. Two belongs to apps with really small user bases, one is EOL-ed. Not shiny...
Rest of story belongs to emotions. Usually, emotional state of small community is not shared by big, and influent one.
But first of all, better to do not speculate in advance. Let's wait and see.