Autodesk has discontinued development of softimage.
People are saying that 3DMax is next. Well, people have been saying that for a while. But now many more people are thinking it too.
I say GOOD!
I like softimage and max. I always thought they had features that are really great, and better than some aspects of the soft I use. But What I have said before and what I say yet again is that Autodesk should combine the best most powerful parts of their packages into ONE single killer app... With a new EASY and intuitive UI.
Im not for monopoly. But Autodesk cannibalizing their own products and market has been stupid and bad for the industry IMHO. And I'm NO expert. But I think thats its pretty obvious running 3 or 4 of their own softs against each other has been a waist of development resources.
One Soft to rule them all! Yes. But not just from one company.
I would like to see a new maya that is all the best of auto desk. And then to see MODO get up to par beyond modeling. There is also Houdini and others out there.
But frankly, if you took the best of all of autodesks products and combined them into one new soft (lets just call it Maya 2016). Then we would really have a chance at a big step forward.
I Have really grown to hate having to use several different soft(s) to get anything done. Itas called a pipeline. Yeah, makes me want to hit a pipe
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I understand that for some very specialized things one needs dedicated apps; Plants, global terrains, maybe a couple of other things like water and fire. But its more than a little irritating as an end user with limited capital and time.
Anyway, I hope things get more focused, and development happens faster. I hope they take all those programers from different departments and get them on board for a break through program. One program supporting all major operating systems. That dose everything, and does everything better. Something like this will really push the other 3D soft companies too.
I would say I am just dreaming. But sometimes dreams come true
... Just not very often.