Well, I personally am very happy that Softimage didn't take the road of Maya and Max, where they seem to have moved the second or third digit of their version number to the first place ;-)
I 100% prefer a solid and worthwhile update over a yearly one - with bug fixes inbetween as it should be.
The other extreme - like ZBrush is doing it with ZB 2.5 currently - is also not desirable, since it tends to overstretch the users patience.
(And I don't even go into messiahs Siggraph 2000 sale which isn't delivered fully until today...)
So far I think Softimage has a very solid policy.
...although I would love to see some movies about the features already revealed at Siggraph ;-)
Since curious I am for sure...
Cheers!
Thomas Helzle
www.screendream.de
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:07:24 +0200, Luc-Eric Rousseau <lucer(at)Softimage.COM> wrote:
> It's not "illegal", as in go-to-jail, to talk about unreleased or
> future products, but there are new and excessively complicated
> rules and processes with regards to these matters. The details are
> not important. Anyway, the team is dying to talk about
> the cool new things they're working on, however even without all of that
> we have enough experience now to know we must wait until
> everything is 'locked down' and guaranteed to ship, at which time
> there is - again, by experience - still months of testing. Personally,
> I have a couple of projects that came out differently, or much later
> than expected, much to my chagrin. People also have done
> innovative things we didn't see coming and had a huge impact. So
> definitely there are a number of excellent reasons to not get
> caught up in the siggraph announcement season, although
> as a user of other products I of course sympathize how this
> can be frustrating.
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