Hi Joel,
No offense, but I learnt XSI on non-certified hardward, often use it
on non-certified hardware. spend 99% of my time in the rendertree and
rarely stumble across a bug. What makes you so certain that it's not a
case of PEBKAC?
Cheers,
Alan.
On 6/3/05, Joel Blackwell <joel(at)lostrealm.com> wrote:
> I'm considering selling XSI, mainly because I'm finding it hard to learn
> the program, due to the fact I run into a bug every few minutes when
> working with shaders. Every time I post about the problems (on a
> forum), someone pipes up and tells me something like, "You must have
> missed something." or, "The problem must be with your graphics card."
> Perhaps either one of those could be true, since I'm not using a
> certified card, and I'm no XSI know-it-all. However, no one seems to
> care if the problem could actually be worth looking to. My posts just
> disappear into nothingness, never to be seen again. Seemingly, my only
> solution I have is- risk paying some money for a certified card (which
> is beyond my price range at the moment) that may not fix the problems
> I've been seeing anyway.
>
> This is obviously a great community for people who work in a
> professional environment, and have money to throw around everywhere for
> proper support and the hardware to suit a professional pipeline. But,
> for people like myself, XSI seems more and more the poorer program to go
> with. Softimage may be doing everything they can to increase their
> userbase, but the program just isn't designed for the average person...
> and right now, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I mean, why develop a
> program for certified (non-gamer) cards, and then aim the program at mod
> makers for games? It just doesn't make any sense.
>
> That aside, does anyone have some advice for me? Last time I posted on
> this mailing list everyone tried to kill me as the marauding invader
> from the land of Truespace (if anyone remembers that fiasco). This
> time, I'm hopeful that won't happen again, and someone will help me get
> this program working as it should. Or, the Softimage crew will actually
> note down some bugs to be fixed, so I don't have to sell XSI and move
> onto something that works.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Joel
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