New in Combustion 2008 (expected availability Fall 2007)

[Als]

Great news !

import ASE (ASCII Scene Export) camera targets from Autodesk® 3ds Max® software

I'm interested what are other possible data exchanges between the two?
Also same question import/export "connections" with maya ?

Thank you


Als

[Fede]

The link goes to a "page not found"?

any other link

[Steve Green]

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:PsU4VVHMJEgJ:usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item%3FsiteID%3D123112%26id%3D10244049+autodesk+combustion+2008+fall+2007&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

For as long as the google cache exists.

- Steve

[Titus]

I guess this is another one-new-feature update, like the diamond keyer in Combustion 4.

[Steve Green]

I seem to recall C4 having a few more features (capsule? G-Buffer Builder) and it wasn't such a large gap between 3 and 4 as between 4 and 5.

I'm hoping that was just a partial feature list, but after Max 2008 I'm getting a bad feeling about this.

[cresshead]

sounds like a low key roll out..maybe just vista compatible in reality rather than 'new features'...and for mw to upgrade from combustion2.1 it need the be a cheapish upgrade too...otherwise i'd look at shake [at just over £300 for a full seat.] or upgrading my tv paint to the pro version...or after effects!
plenty to choose from thesedays so combustion 5 [2008] needs to be affordable and feature rich.

def not spending £400+ on a upgrade unless there's long list of new things to play with!

[Steve Green]

My main wishes are speed and 64-bit support. I know the latter is problematic since there isn't a 64-bit quicktime AFAIK, but other codecs have 64-bit versions.

I would love to seem more speedups and improvements on common post tasks like Depth of Field, motion blur and glows - I use Frischluft's DOF at the moment which is great, but something better integrated into combustion (like for 3D workspaces, and hardware accelerated if poss.) would improve things a lot.

[cresshead]

My main wishes are speed and 64-bit support. I know the latter is problematic since there isn't a 64-bit quicktime AFAIK, but other codecs have 64-bit versions.

I would love to seem more speedups and improvements on common post tasks like Depth of Field, motion blur and glows - I use Frischluft's DOF at the moment which is great, but something better integrated into combustion (like for 3D workspaces, and hardware accelerated if poss.) would improve things a lot.

not sure what you mean by quicktime not working...i've just installed the player and i can render to quicktime from combustion 2.1 on vista64 ultimate...

do you mean a 64bit specific quicktime??

do you mean something else?

[Steve Green]

As far as I understand it, if you are running a 64-bit OS you can't render out to quicktime.

So if you were running a 64 bit combustion, you would need a 64-bit version of quicktime.

I've been told the same applies to Max - if you're running 64bit Max you can't render out directly to quicktime.

Anyway, that's what I've been told - I don't have any 64-bit OS installed to test it out for myself.

In fact it's one area that puts me off installing 64bit Max, since I often render out previews to QT which can be dropped into animatics for the Mac guy doing the edit, which are then updated with full renders when available.

Cheers,

Steve

[cresshead]

hi

okay..got your meaning...

i'm installing max2008 64bit tomorrow evening so i'll test it out.

[Steve Green]

As far as I know that's the case - I'd be chuffed to be wrong though.

Let me know how you get on.

Cheers,

Steve

[cresshead]

actually...i've just installed max2008 64bit and quicktime is not available to use as an output source
and with avi you have a massive choice of 2 codecs....oh boy!...drat!
one is a dv codec with no way to change the quality...the other is based on mjpg and is ''basic''

looks like i'll install max2008 32bit too then!

also note that max2008 is not supported in vista in regards the aero theme for windows and pop up comes up that tell you your interface will resume to vista basic....so much for made for vista then!


.....

on the positive side i've been looking thru my old max install discs and i have 2 world creation discs
one from max2.5 and 1 from max 3.1...thought they were the same content..err they're NOT!!!

max 2.5 world creation disc has 4000 MORE files than 3.1....got some great models/scenes in there!
...had it all this while and never looked! seeing as max 3 came out just a few months later from when i bought max in 1999...goodies!
cool!...

[Steve Green]

I guess I'll hold off then.

I think there are a few 64-bit avi codecs knocking about, like HuffyUV - quicktime's is the major pain for me though.

Cheers,

Steve

[cresshead]

I guess I'll hold off then.
- quicktime's is the major pain for me though.

Cheers,

Steve

what's apple say?...are going to make a windows 64bit version or hold vista to ransom whilst they tout their new shiny 64bit osx around!

[Steve Green]

I haven't seen any public comment from them, one way or the other.

- Steve

[Titus]

and for mw to upgrade from combustion2.1 it need the be a cheapish upgrade too...

The upgrade from 3 to 4 (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/379755-REG/Autodesk_62204091408_Upgrade_Combustion_3_0_to.html) is $250, and from 2 to 4 (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/431040-REG/Autodesk_622047111089305_Upgrade_Combustion_2_0_to.html) is $400. Maybe you want to skip the upgrade from 2 to 2008 and buy the electronic full download of 2008.

[cresshead]

yeah but in the uk you have to DOUBLE the price..we pay twice as much as a usa user...
even for this...

http://www.bluegfx.com/estore.php?keyword=combustion&catego=0

[thatoneguy]

Colorwarper better be a $49 upgrade. Doesn't it use the diamond keyer for its secondaries anyway?

[dprgb]

Anyone been back to the Combustion website lately???

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=10244049

Colour Warper™ (NEW)


Performs primary and selective color correction allowing for precise fine-tuning with multiple levels of adjustment in a single pass
Interactive adjustment of gamma, gain, offset, hue, saturation, and contrast; apply animatable settings to all channels or independently to R, G, and B
Intuitive hue shift and tint color wheel for fast, accurate color balancing; visual color sampling palette for precise color matching
Interactive Histogram and Curves editing modes for subtle, precision tweaking of color components
Independent controls for color correcting shadow, midtone, and highlight regions—features user-definable luminance ranges
“Match” feature for fast scene-to-scene color correction
“Selective” feature for sampling up to three different color regions for isolated correction
User interface features a high-quality RGB vector scope, and a 3D histogram for precise color monitoring

[cresshead]

Hmm..1 new feature...is that it?
hardly worthy of a new version as yet....nneeds a whole raft of new things like 64bit for windows and osx for a start!

...uif it ships with 1 new feature can wait for them to demo it!
...should take all of 2mins!

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