SPOILER ALERT - general Softimage 2013 description

[azurecgi]

Cloud Shmoud!

[SreckoM]

HQ viewport looks really good, not sure how it behaves with lots of geometry though.
ICE additions are nice.

I do not see much of use for CrowdFX in my everyday work, and that seems to be the biggest addition.

Here is 3dsMax 2013 list if someone is interested http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/ken/3ds_ ... _announced

Maya http://area.autodesk.com/products/features/maya

[iamVFX]

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/marks/softimage_2013

1000 crowd characters at 10 frames on 12 core machine

[ActionArt]

That viewport looks great and USEFUL. I like how it closely matches software rendering and supports procedurals!

Great work SI team!!!

[Maximus]

viewport seemed really slow to me, and didnt have lots of objects going on, also it was used with a quadro.. i wonder what happens with a geforce average card, and a whole scene textured..

[Nizar]

Yes, viewport is the thing I like more. But seems slow (and I suppose they using a monster machine for their preview). In any case, don't need rotate or pan, but it is (like they said) a fast alternative to render preview.

I was sure they will not give anything similar to maya or max viewport (is similar to nitro viewportor or I'm wrong?) , for differentiate the products. Seems the three work independently (next release we can see a crowd simulation for maya or max?
Like end user, AD marketing confusing me a "bit"

Rendering improvement is not transcendental but like it. Was curious about mental ray version in this release (complete 3.9 feature set?

I'm sure I'll never using crowd simulation, but pleased can play with it

[Kzin]

i hope they put in all the ibl stuff finally. the same for the new sss shaders.
good to see that you can use now fg and ip's together officially. nice render region addition and also the "local" tag is nice, small but nice. ;)

[Chris_TC]

Yes, viewport is the thing I like more. But seems slow (and I suppose they using a monster machine for their preview). In any case, don't need rotate or pan, but it is (like they said) a fast alternative to render preview

It seems ridiculously slow. I might as well drag up a render region and leave it on auto update. Which is what I've been doing for many years, and it works great.

[Hirazi Blue]

and I suppose they using a monster machine for their preview

Just to clarify: Chinny states in his viewport video he is using a Quadro FX 4800, this card was first presented in 2008 and might be considered a high-end but "previous-generation" card...
;)

[SreckoM]

I am only concerned how much that cooking time will grow with more materials in scene.

[calmasacow]

so has anyone heard any mention of the street date for this? or when maintenance users will get it?

[fabilabo]

I dont know maya and 3ds but both look have HUGUE update, specially 3DS, but maybe im wrong...
I wonder if the viewport works with vray, arnold, and all 3rd party rendering, because become useless to SI.
It's funny to see differences between SI preview viewport scene (an old crap scene with 150 polys) and the maya one, colored, nice looking etc

One more update useless to me

[ActionArt]

According to comments on the list other shaders such as Vray and Arnold can work with the new viewport with minor updates.

I thought the Maya update looked pretty light compared to SI. Max seems pretty major but it's a lot of old stuff that should have been done years ago.

[Memag]

I am only concerned how much that cooking time will grow with more materials in scene.

it doesn't bake textures. the lighting and procedural shaders are all running on the GPU.

http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.php? ... 8;start=34

[origin]

youre wrong.
all releases look 'solid', max is mostly fixing things from previous releases, massfx introduced in 2012 is outdated physx, the render pass system introduced in 2012 sap is a design/workflow joke, I thought they will kill it and start over again, etc.

Also I don't see those 'millions' of $$ pumped into maya (Luc?)

as for SI i think they rushed viewport stuff, its not that important.
Looking back I think it's the weakest release, of course people doing crowd sims will say something completly different but...

Maybe they should go back to 2 years relase cycle...

[iamVFX]

The one big f***ing awesome thing for me is an updated Build Array From Set compound that speeded up and works with locations and set of topo's now. I'll probably cut it and paste into my SI 2012 directory