luceric wrote:do this test: rename your user folder so that they will be no other plug-in or workgroup, and apply the cap tool.
there will be a delay to apply it the first time, on the order of perhaps 2 seconds while the Preset Manager updates itselfs. but no more.
I suppose it is very common for people at autodesk to rename folders before applying the cap tools ;;)
It's not exactly a way I was expecting Cap Tools to work.
Softimage 2012 SAP seems to show something very clear : SDK is very efficient to create basic user tools for quick modeling (new curvature tools vs captools/thickness), while ICE is nice to produce more complicate effects (i.e. building a procedural city).
luceric wrote:btw I doubt support has ever told anyone you don't know how to use softimage.
Please have a look at the answers about boolean issues and rendermap issues. I've been told that my mesh was not good enough to perform boolean (I was also trying to use boolean operation to add an object to another one without creating a new entity, so the 2 meshes were not intersecting), about rendermap : it was very unstable, not working on every scene... Hopefully, rendermap work much better since 2010 (I dont know why ?). My own humble opinion is that support team is a "filter" to customer feedback. The obvious direction of Softimage is to develop ICE, so other request, improvements, bug reports seems to have a low priority.
When I look at Softimage, I do not see only ICE. I'm very proud of using a clear modern explorer, the M key, the shared PPG, the middle mouse button (yes !), the fast envelope method, transforming several object at the same time (moving points of multiple objects)... When I open my 3dsmax copy, even if the modeling tools are more complete, I do not want to go back to it
