considering a divorce after 10 years with Maya, if 2009 isn't spectacular

#201

funny considering people in the max forum are bitching equally:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=6&t=653785 (and that’s only 1 thread)

kinda turning into a yawn fest as this happens with every software release for every 3d app. The grass is always greener on the other side… yadda yadda yadda.

If you look at the archives, this thread resurfaces with each 3D app release in each forum. Each maya release has people bitching. Each Max release, each XSI release, so on and so forth. I figure if it was really that bad people would’ve already switched apps and started bitching in those respective forums :slight_smile:

With that, I don’t have too much faith in that 2009 will be an earth shattering, baby making, booze drinkin, ho slappin release. The features are pretty much locked in too with a release within the next 1-3 months. It’s pretty much assured that even if it was a ground breaking release people would still bitch about it because why? Because it’s human nature to bitch, even if it’s righteous :slight_smile: The real question is, will all the people fed up with Maya finally move on? Will they crap and finally get off the pot after apparently years of abuse and neglect by Autodesk towards them or will they stick around in this seemingly hate-hate relationship? It should be an interesting Q3 in the CGTalk Maya fourms. ahem

#202

i divorced my truck in 2005, trying to adapt voluntarily to the coming fuel shortages & high prices.

but i tried to make it a friendly divorce. i threw a mattress in the back (it has a camper shell), so i can still visit & we can still sleep together.

how much this silly metaphor applies to computers, i don’t know.

when bringing a new workstation online, and it sounds like your next workstation will run XSI, i think it’s good to keep the old workstation completely operational, A/ just in case you need it, and B/ it makes for a very thorough back-up - your new XSI workstation could crash and you would have all the assets & work, on the just-retired Maya workstation.

#203

nice thread :thumbsup:

#204

if you mention your wife and your dog leaving you, that’ll make for a good country song! “But I still got muh truck with the mattress in the back!” twaaaaang

:slight_smile:

#205

yeah we still have out maya Licenses but we have decided that we are gonna go ahead and go with XSI. As for still have the other machines. Yeah and if my new workstations crashes I can just walk over to the old one and start up XSI. All licenses float. As far as backup well that is what redudant SANs and tape libraries are for.

#206

So, … Was the whole thread entirely worth it?

You prematurely divorced Maya (albeit you said you still have a license) before Siggraph since the main argument of the thread was … “If Autodesk doesn’t deliver … to Maya by Siggraph then I’m…”

Shoulda just learned MEL :slight_smile: (i can feel the flames coming from this one)

#207

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<<< pretty lame looking smiley breathing fire at you...
#208

ahhahahha … Meant more as a “joke” since the notion came up several times and finally some people snapped …

#209

Maybe the brunt of this whole thread it should have been … when, and I mean when, has Autodesk EVER developed (from the ground up) some mind boggling, leading edge, think outside the box application … drum roll please …

#210

C’mon man that was unfair; what about all those years they have been developing viewcube?? tell me xsi has something as awesome and advanced… and the new icon has a lot of work on it; well maybe on maya 8 they forgot to change some alias to autodesk names, but they certanely invested some time on that icon. On maya 2008 we have viewcube. Hey I’m sure autodesk engineers are working right now on one cool new feature, something like … imagine if we could have cubes instead of spheres on the hypershade window, won’t it be amazing??

#211

We could get a view SPHERE in here? It’s like they’re shape-biased, or something.

#212

yeah that’s truth, autodesk! you have something to work on for maya 2010! box-shape-biased forms on the hypershade!

#213

You guys do realize there were a lot of other things added after Autodesk took over, other than the viewcube?

#214

AutoCAD 12 for Windows ? (about 1994) it wasn’t any of those 3 (“mind boggling, leading edge, think outside the box application”), but it was … decent … for 1994.

#215

I can’t wait for Siggraph. The Mudbox video got me pretty pumped up and hopeful for big updates, and I’ve got a new quad processor for my PC arriving in the mail.

Come on, give my new processor something to chew on!

#216

people would rather whine.

#217

Anyone know when news release is due for 2009?

#218

My bet is - Tuesday morning, Aug 12 - first day of the show.

If you’re at SIGGRAPH, swing by the BOXX booth and play with the new features we can’t yet talk about… :wink:

#219

Can you at least tell us this is not gonna be some eye candy features release
but some significant and really important one?

#220

No. Under a Non-Disclosure Agreement they’re not really legally to talk about anything until info is made publicly available.