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Re: Petition to keep perpetual licensing at Autodesk
Blender isn't a bad choice for those that want to jump ship from AD. That said, for people used to scripting small tools to help their workflow it can be quite painful. The documentation for scripting is not nearly as straight forward and robust as MEL/Maxscript (decent video tutorials are basically non-existent too), plus… -
Re: Petition to keep perpetual licensing at Autodesk
As interesting as Modo Indie is, if you want to have a common standard modeling program with all the modeling features in Maya without the price of Maya; MayaLT is the only option, regardless if you're in game dev or not. Atleast you get MEL scripting, Modo gives you no scripting ability & no polygon limit. -
Re: Petition to keep perpetual licensing at Autodesk
Have you guys ever wondered why the entire games industry doesn't just switch to Blender? (I'm not a Blender user by the way; I've worked predominantly in Modo and Max). But the more I think about it, the more surprised I become about why this isn't happening by now. Why are so many game companies, big and small, paying… -
Re: Petition to keep perpetual licensing at Autodesk
It did jump from $189.00 (CDN) that is expensive. The solution is to jump ship. Start learning new software from scratch. I keep Maya 2015 installed that is only because I hopefully plan on learning scripting off the old version regardless how old it becomes. Look at Adobe, most only know the basics of Photoshop; yet it's… -
Re: Petition to keep perpetual licensing at Autodesk
It's not a fallacy. We've had several teams of Tech Artists and Tech Anims develop tools for YEARS on Autodesk products. Literally Tens of Thousands of hours spent on export tools, and pipeline scripts, anim tools, kits, rendering, flagging, etc, etc, etc. Heck, our entire TressFX pipeline was made by a managed team of… -
Re: Petition to keep perpetual licensing at Autodesk
Let's put out some numbers. We pay roughly $8,000 for our team's Max licenses per year. For our team to be down just one week of production, putting zero product out the door, costs us $25,000 in lost billable hours. We're also pretty vanilla Max users with only a handful of scripts and custom tools but we have a huge… -
Re: Petition to keep perpetual licensing at Autodesk
Are companies now so irrevocably tied to tools and scripts they wrote in-house for Max/Maya that they just can't justify moving to Blender? I don't get it... This goes further than just features. When purchasing a license from Autodesk one is also getting official support. Now of course there is a growing sentiment that… -
Re: Petition to keep perpetual licensing at Autodesk
* You will need to re-create tools, such as pipeline tools. For example a client has a neat Substance integration for Maya - they would have to rewrite that. But an AAA studio will likely have lots of tools. This will get expensive. And until those tools are ready your art team will be less productive, costing you more…
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