Re: XSI 6 Foundation in 64bit?

["Tim Leydecker" <BauerOink(at)gmx.de>]

Hi Luc-Eric,

> Tim, if I'm not mistaken what's happening is that you're 'pimping your PC' to 
> 64-bit and want to have everything running in 64-bit.  But >really, the 32-bit 
> version will run at full speed on it, and 99.9% of the CG industry is still working 
> on 32-bit.  It's only only if you're in need >of more than 3 Gig of RAM for XSI 
> only that you need 64-bit.  I would say that you're prepared to invest in all of 
> this cool new >hardware, you should also be be prepared to upgrade above the 
> entry-level version of XSI and get the Essential version of XSI.

I tried hard not to sound offensive in my last e-mail,
my plea focusing solely on getting a beneficial situation for
most users - be it students, Linux users or windows32bit guys.

So please, forget about my urge for a 2D/3D Lighting tool,
that would be a pretty selfish request reserved to pro-users.

Cheers

tim

P.S: I don´t pimp my computers, btw. They run fine with Maya for years...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luc-Eric Rousseau" <lucer(at)Softimage.COM>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 6:43 PM
Subject: RE: XSI 6 Foundation in 64bit?


> Tim, if I'm not mistaken what's happening is that you're 'pimping your PC' to 
> 64-bit and want to have everything running in 64-bit.  But really, the 32-bit 
> version will run at full speed on it, and 99.9% of the CG industry is still working 
> on 32-bit.  It's only only if you're in need of more than 3 Gig of RAM for XSI only 
> that you need 64-bit.  I would say that you're prepared to invest in all of this 
> cool new hardware, you should also be be prepared to upgrade above the entry-level 
> version of XSI and get the Essential version of XSI.
>
> If you're a student, Essential and Advanced are available are prices lower than 
> Foundation.
>
> Shaders writers that contribute to the community can often get temp license of XSI, 
> so the shader porting issue should not be a problem.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> [...]
> > Now I´ll make my official plea, addressing you in your
> > role as part of Softimage, in the hope to provide ideas
> > that may further extend the useability and spread of XSI.
> >
> > *Remember that 32bit and 64bit require individual shader porting.
> >
> > *Provide a 64bit version of Foundation, unify the licensing
> > scheme so it may also run on an ess/adv Dongle, add $175 to
> > adress that cost but in exchange let people run it on all flavours
> > of windows and linux, take it with them, dualboot, swap, etc...
> >
> > *Revise the current amount of rendering licenses granted,
> > the Foundation license should at least make full use of
> > one machine with two sockets, which is about 8 CPU
> > cores currently, scale the amount of ess/adv licenses up
> > accordingly, unify and streamline batchrendering for the
> > sake of giving freedom to the users - you´ll gain your share.
> >
> > *allow to have at least two interactive XSI sessions open
> > simultaneously, allow to specify the number of CPU´s for
> > rendering on each - all this running on one license/current user.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > tim
> >
> > P.S: On a more personal urge, I´d really love to see a Pixar
> > style 2D/3D lighting approach realized in XSI, so well done
> > it feels an integral part of the software, push a button - setup.
>
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