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[mirkoj]

because nvidia gaming cards are crippled to the point where ati got almost twice better performance in viewports, and pro cards are so overpriced that
unless a company is buying them for you it is not so easy decision to choose to go with one over good gaming card.. ati card ofc.
for comparison purposes I had gtx580 that got really bad Softimage viewport performance.. after replacing it with ati 7970 it is completely another world.
but let's not go that way this is not topic for that

[Rez007]

Google still shows the cached wiki for 2014....One thing I did notice is that they say 2014 no longer supports 32 bit...

After seeing the list, if that is the complete list, sure looks like a SP2 to me. Definitely doesn't warrant a 2014 naming/release...

[Kzin]

Awesome, new GPU CUDA stuff! My AMD card wants to thank Autodesk for such a great decision

complain to amd directly. amd did not want to get cuda as nvidia offered it some years ago.

wat

nvidia gave amd the chance to get the tech some years ago, but amd wants to do his own thing, called opencl. nice idea, but in the meantime everyone is using cuda, and the loser of that behavior is, yep, the customer.

[origin]

opencl is not amd 'thing', and it was created by apple not amd.
It's open framework just like opengl, maintaned by khronos.
Unlike directx and cuda which are closed frameworks that run on single system (windows) or graphic card (nvidia)
Obviously each vendor needs to write own drivers for it, just like with OGL (Intel/AMD/Nvidia)

[gena_f1]

At this time, Side Effetsts releases Houdini 12,5 (SAP) - FREE!!!
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option= ... Itemid=360
Autodesk - very, very cynical company! This is a joke, to take for it (2014) release any money!

[angus_davidson]

I'd like to see a thread about what could be changed in Maya to make better for a Softimage user's point of view.. I mean if you have to bite the bullet some day and switch..

maybe this is what Luc was trying to tell us

I suspect you are spot on.

[azurecgi]

If I switch, it sure as hell won't be to another Autodesk product!

[Nizar]

If I switch, it sure as hell won't be to another Autodesk product!

If you strictly need some AD product (for a plugin or what else), so, what you will do? Don't work?

[azurecgi]

If I switch, it sure as hell won't be to another Autodesk product!

If you strictly need some AD product (for a plugin or what else), so, what you will do? Don't work?

There's many ways to achieve desired end results!

As I said in an earlier post, I will probably return to Lightwave with which I have over 10 years experience. Plus I'm not going to put my copy of Softimage in the bin (it's cost me too much to just discard).

I just won't be paying any future subscriptions!

[Nizar]

If I switch, it sure as hell won't be to another Autodesk product!

If you strictly need some AD product (for a plugin or what else), so, what you will do? Don't work?

There's many ways to achieve desired end results!

As I said in an earlier post, I will probably return to Lightwave with which I have over 10 years experience. Plus I'm not going to put my copy of Softimage in the bin (it's cost me too much to just discard).

I just won't be paying any future subscriptions!

If this is the real 2014 release (please Bellsey, say it is not the truth...), like you I don't renew subscription, but in sincerity (again, if all here the news), we'll don't see a 2015 release.... like Toxik become Compositor and was given for free, I think softimage will become ICE, a free plugin given with maya or 3dsm 2015. Is very hard image a promotion with this support. Ok, this is the saddest future, hope that does not happen

[Hirazi Blue]

To add my own two cents to this little “SI-Wikileak” - the funny thing is: I am not all that disappointed with the feature list I saw. The new release lacks a true “hero feature”, but it builds upon the two main features of Softimage 2013. As the HQV was a beta at best in that version, maybe this release will actually make it release-worthy. In the goodie-bag that isn't part of the HQV or CrowdFX some interesting little features seem hidden also. If this version is relatively bug-free I personally rate this a decent release, the release, basically, that Softimage 2013 never was IMHO.


edit: removed last sentence as it was too ambiguous...

[Lord Futzi Voldemort]

I'd like to see a thread about what could be changed in Maya to make better for a Softimage user's point of view.. I mean if you have to bite the bullet some day and switch..

maybe this is what Luc was trying to tell us

I suspect you are spot on.

Actually until now, they didn´t even manage to make maya better for MAYA users.

[Kzin]

opencl is not amd 'thing', and it was created by apple not amd.
It's open framework just like opengl, maintaned by khronos.
Unlike directx and cuda which are closed frameworks that run on single system (windows) or graphic card (nvidia)
Obviously each vendor needs to write own drivers for it, just like with OGL (Intel/AMD/Nvidia)

yep, and at this point as amd decides to go with opencl, it was clear that nvidia will win the race with cuda, short and middle time wise.

[Falam]

I'm hoping the list on the Wiki page is not official, if it is, I won't rush to upgrade if at all.
I'm curious to what Maya and Max 2014 has, if it's the same then Autodesk has bad releases across the board.

On the bright side, ICE is designed we create our own tools and help each other in the community, that was expected when ICE came to Softimage, maybe Autodesk doesn't know what else to do with the program. Although they should chop the subscription fee in half.

[Superpositivo]

In the meantime, in Planet Softimage...

[McNistor]

What's up with this image?
I need a background env. like this for a car I've been working in my spare time for some time.
It's great for inspiration/motivation.