Already there, not due to Autodesk’s take over antics just their attitude to customers. Clients don’t care they only care about the results. Same with Gimp instead of photoshop. PHP instead of ASP any old text editor instead of Dreamweaver. Flash and After Effects are about the only Applications I can’t get out of the pipeline at the moment.
Autodesk Signs Agreement with Avid Technology to Acquire Softimage
UrbanFuturistic
#562
Red Hat or the Blender Foundation might be a better example.
That asides:
Not nearly as profitable.
Yes they can so long as it makes money, they’re a business not a volunteer organisation.
I thought this was a creative forum?
Once was enough thankyou.
This is really reminding me of those who screeched (yes, like harpies) that Maya for Linux would be killed off instantly as though Autodesk was some kind of cult and not, get this, a corporation interested in profits and as though Max not being ported outside Windows had nothing to do with the immense technical hurdle presented by it’s Win32 entrenched architecture but was entirely down to all the Autodesk top brass secretly believing Bill Gates was the second coming of Christ.
Probably also worth pointing out that Avid is hardly the first company to sell their one profit making division in an attempt to prop up the rest of the company, as any Ford executive can tell you they’re not even the only ones this year.
SlayerCZ
#563
Pure madness, just hardcore.:banghead:
Bad times for Softimage users, crashing all the time for good prices! Oh God
This going to be a legendary thread:eek:
raffael3d
#564
this picture appears to me like where a guy gets trapped in a dark alley by two guys with baseball bats…
SaburoShinkai
#567
It so is developed now new 3D a software? That could not think up all will take (disembowel) from XSI and will add in max and maya. “Cool”. Next year in max and maya there will be many new additions. What for something to think out if it is possible to buy it. :applause:
The next years it precisely will years of stagnation. The competition is not present. Complete monopoly.
Farewell XSI you precisely never will now such as earlier. You will be better or worse but another.
I hope for Autodesk mind will suffice not to name XSI-> XSI 2009 XSI 2010 XSI 2011 +sp 1 sp 2 sp 3 I hate it
system
#568
As much as someone might want to bash this it saves time TONS OF TIME, if only looking at setting up symmetry solutions down the line.
system
#574
I guess the thing that annoys me most is that it would seem that AutoDesk bought Maya ultimately to just try to shine some light on Max because it was sputtering and I assume things won’t change. the AREA website doesn’t have a huge influence, but it still gives one a peek into AutoDesk’s collective mentality…when the site began there seemed to be equal page space devoted to all applications, now if you go there 80% of the material is Max focussed. If you go into a bookstore looking for a 3D book publishers that historically wrote exclusively on Maya (Sybex in particular) now have Max books, no doubt AutoDesk lobbied hard for this otherwise the companies would have written the books before the acquisition. I suspect it will be more of the same and any possibility of XSI on the Mac (which I know was in development) is pretty much down the tubes. This is like the Cinderella story…Max is the three ugly daughters, AutoDesk the stepmother and Maya/XSI the Cinderella in the story. Hopefully, there will be a good ending but I doubt it.
Locutus
#575
Are you REALLY going to dump XSI and go to Blender? Come on, man XSI isn’t suddenly useless.
antero
#576
goodbye xsi 7.1 … now we will have autodesk xsi 2009 with the same features and bigger price.
mocaw
#579
Some ICE functionality? It wasn’t/isn’t just some plugin you slap in there half way…ugh…
The road that was ahead for ICE was much bigger than that! That’s like saying “some houdini proceduralness and you still have houdini”!?!
Can I get an XSI witness?
There are many things FUNDAMENTAL to the way XSI works that made/make it so great. These are core, basic things- the bones of the program. ICE was going to be part of that new, even sexier bone structure. Mellinum falcon plugin patched software users will never understand until they use and app fully that has such bones.
SI and XSI are different beasts BTW.
I have some real fears that the XSI userbase, being soooo small compared to the Maxians and Mayans is just going to get drowned out. “Hey let’s put some ‘ICEness’ in Max!”
SheepFactory
#580
Utopia where happy people grow on trees:
-Autodesk supports all three apps. The information is shared within the company and it improves all products equally.
-The dev team is left intact.
-Price stays the same.
-Softwares can import export between each other fully so you can work in any app without your scene getting destroyed.
What will really happen:
-Autodesk increase the price of XSI or just drop it altogether after a while and integrate some of the tech into max or whatever.
-The biggest new features for XSI 7 is “Toxic file export” and “improved viewport navigation (view cube)” , Also Ice becomes singlethreaded to fit in more with the rest of the autodesk product family.
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Some of the above is tongue in cheek but anybody who thinks this is in any way good for the industry or the end user must also still believe in Santa and that goddamn unicorns exist.
Autodesk has no reason to innovate anymore, not that they were doing any. Softimage and Side fx were the companies that were pushing the envelope with each release. I hope I’ll be proven wrong but I dont expect anything good to come out from this. Also in this age of economic crisis I dont expect Autodesk to waste money supporting 3 apps that basicly do the same thing. If there was money to be made doing that Softimage wouldnt have been for sale in the first place. Considering the size of the userbase and industry penetration I think its safe to say “goodbye XSI, it was a pleasure”