Ive spent the better part of a month looking for alternatives to TG, but TG is apparently what I'm the best at, and I like the workflow. But I can't justify spending money on it. I might as well purchase another software and force to learn it as I know the fruition from it is more of a constant based on ones ability than a variable of understanding [the software].
Soo...I'm forced to sit on the freeware and hope for a brighter future. Many have tried to contribute but we get responses like "we are working on it" literally repeated now for a decade... At this point they're more excuses, no?
And I guess my frustrations with PS and it's state have made me lash out in the community but at this point people really should speak up..changes need to be made. Somehow I have not been invited to alpha that's I've been interested in for a couple years, and as of late it seems I've put the most change into TG. The needed smooth shader instead of individually setting octaves/settings on shaders, bringing up the issues with continuation with surface shaders and other shaders. I always contribute to helping new users and old, even brainstorming and trying to solve issues or show examples. But now several years on I feel I've been contributing to a dying software that serves more of a in house use and to those that their deals. Cause I don't see work done with the software outside the same people out in the industry beyond novelty hobbyist work.
