Good News!

[joshbakr]

Some good news about World Machine!  Near the bottom here---> http://forum.world-machine.com/index.php?topic=763.msg5377#msg5377

[Seth]

if there is a free try, i'll give it a try... i never used world machine but i saw so many good things done with it...
thanks for the link

[rcallicotte]

@joshbakr, please let us know if you find out a release date or a link.

[JohnnyBoy]

It's on his blog. July 4th.

http://world-machine.com/blog/

[rcallicotte]

I can't wait.

[Moose]

yee har! 

Houdini 9.5 public beta tommorow
Tg2 tp4 / public beta next week or sometime very soon
WM2 next month

Let the good times role baby - one happy puppy here!!

[old_blaggard]

Houdini 9.5 public beta tommorow

Is that the Mac version of it, too?  If so, horray!

[Moose]

Houdini 9.5 public beta tommorow

Is that the Mac version of it, too?  If so, horray!

It's Houdini lock stock and... so yes Mac too .

I never thought I'd say it... but I'm seriously considering going Mac for my next machine. I'm currently on Vista64 which is 'fine', but still I know I'm taking a speed hit. I can't use Linux because I have what I believe is a rare allergy to the X render server (my eyes suffer excruciating pain - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=770293&highlight=sore+eywa). I now read news of Snow Leopard being an optimised platform (openCL and Grand Central - http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=461) and although it may all be Jobsie hype it still sounds promising all the same at this early stage. I've got faith in SideFX being on the ball tech wise and that they will pick up on what needs to be picked up on, so fingers crossed if there's anything in it - http://odforce.net/wiki/index.php/Optimization%2C_Threading_%26_GPGPU . I believe they're still trudging forward with the Cell thing too...



EDIT: as a Houdini 9.5 teaser, here's  a polish forum with some info - http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=pl&tl=en&u=http://www.forum3d.pl/f3dbb/index.php%3Fmd%3Dtopic%26tid%3D123894%26pg%3D1 - third post form the bottom.

[matrix2003]

Happy Fourth - and don't forget:  World Machine 2.0 is out TODAY!   
http://www.world-machine.com/

[Will]

Thats a nice pic there.

[matrix2003]

Really!  Sums up what we do quite well!

[Yoda Almighty]

World Machine 2 basic edition

free for non commercial use, with a few restrictions.

[old_blaggard]

Yup, already downloaded and have played with it a little .

[Seth]

downloadd the free verison but... it's like starting TG2 ^^

[Yoda Almighty]

the package won't open on my computer