(Source - Malware Warning! - XSIBase)fyi there isn't going to be an Advantage Pack for Softimage this year. The way we used to do it (have the development team adding some features mid year, plus we sometime had to do a service pack for that) diverts too much time and resources away from the yearly release. Also, the work for Suite is complete for now.
If only those were the only 2 scenarios.ace63 wrote:This is actually great news.
I'd rather have a great release every 1 or 2 years than a crappy one every 6 months.
calling you out on this one Bellsey - untrue. see hereBellsey wrote: As for what the teams are working on, again that comes under our old clause of not divulging roadmaps and future development, same as it is for Maya, Max, Mobu Mudbox, et al. .
Yeah, I know what you mean, but I think the problem is that there's lots of stuff being worked on, but its not always in a state to show, and sometimes its not 'sexy' enough for people. People have such various expectations of what a 'feature' actually is, that its just impossible to please people.Tekano wrote:yes, but at the very least we can see *something* is being researched regarding the product - its better than nothing. Also, don't be too hard on yourself, I don't remember seeing any of your technology previews for Softimage are they online anywhere? So that will be some folks didn't like them not everybody.
I vaguely remember some posts on here concerning new features videos you posted a while back and most of the negative comments were based upon Autodesk being a billion dollar profit corporation yet they are so tight they refuse to pay for web developers or demo artist material. Thats hardly your fault.
Coral is great also, the code is so clean, Andrea used new features of C++11, OpenGL 3 core profile and modern multithreading libraries so it's even faster than ICE. I trying to compile it right now so if someone interested in the last build under windows you can pm me and I send you a copy of it as soon as I finish it.Rork wrote:Sometimes Blender starts to look really interesting.....
There were only two SAP ever made for Softimage. The one with Lagoa, 2011 SAP, was a big release that almost crushed 2012. It only occured as an SAP because the Suite were being launched in September that year. As a result of it, we were left with only 3 month to do ICE modeling, and dropped features including support for Curves and NURBS. 2012 SAP contained no third party plug-in.ActionArt wrote:To me this looks like an excuse for AD to release even less. Most SAP's to me seemed like nice third party addons like Lagoa. I don't see how that distracted a lot from the core development.
