Great idea. So what are you waiting for? Get coding, Al! ;)
(I'll have VRay first please).
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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Alan Jones
Sent: 10 November 2006 16:02
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: [OT] graphics card
I think you'll find more of this sits with mental ray than Softimage.
What would probably help with leverage to get better deals is to get
really good support for additional render engines into XSI. A little
competition could make them more competitive.
Cheers,
Alan.
On 11/10/06, Joe Laffey <joe(at)laffey.tv> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Stefan Andersson wrote:
>
> > damn you Joe.... you just couldn't stop yourself could you...
> >
> > *mumble* *mumble* *mumble*
>
>
>
> Heh. Well that certainly wouldn't be the intention. That would also be
a
> terrible marketing decision given other packages giving away free
render
> nodes.
>
> My feeling is that SoftImage needs to take a closer look at the small
> studio market. Not the amatuer market, but the small studios who NEED
> renderfarms, but cannot afford the current pricing for very many
nodes. In
> smaller studios the renderfarm is made up of last year's workstations.
> With the current node pricing this is not practical. You must purchase
new
> fast hardware instead. This leads to less money for SoftImage, and bad
> sentiment from users, which in tern leads to fewer recommends for XSI,
and
> fewer customers.
>
> >
> > On 11/10/06, Eric Lampi <ericlampi(at)yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Cue licensing on a per core basis in 3...2...1...
> >>
> >> E
> >>
> >> Freelance 3-D Animator, F/X Artist
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----
> >> From: Joe Laffey <joe(at)laffey.tv>
> >> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 8:24:29 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [OT] graphics card
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Morten Bartholdy wrote:
> >>
> >> > Regarding the Quad Core Xeons - I just tested a box fresh in from
my
> >> hardware
> >> > pusher - it was 4,8 times faster at pure raytracing than my dual
Xeon 3,4
> >> GHz
> >> > i bought a year ago!
> >> >
> >> > I am waiting for the pricetag, but it makes sense to get one of
those to
> >> > replace yor renderboxes instead of forking out for more MR
licenses.
> >>
> >> Yet another reason the render node pricing is ridiculous. People
end up
> >> buying more hardware, and not giving any more money to SoftImage.
Price
> >> render nodes reasonably and it might be the other way around.
> >>
> >>
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