They're buying Pixologic too! Whiners are a bit quick to judge this time around, eh? Autodesk's done a fine job with Maya so far, and the next version will have improvements to the viewport geared towards game art. Apples and oranges, but Autodesk isn't the touch of death exactly, so wait and see... erm, motion builder…
Well after reading all this I think it was a matter of time before this happened, cuz that's how places like Autodesk practice their business policies.
so Autodesk to planning to replace Max with a strange Maya-Mudbox mutant hybrid. good news is they at least have 2 apps now that export objs properly. *snicker snicker* ^_^
I sincerely hope Autodesk doesn't fuck this up. To be honest, I preferred the clean, simple interface of Mudbox over the convoluted mess that is ZBrush. Combining 3ds Max/Maya and Mudbox just doesn't seem right.
Autodesk seems like an old desk drawer with 50 different old pieces of software in it that may or may not work still. While the opportunities for combining the best of Max,Maya, and Mudbox are there, I don't have a good feeling about this currently. I'm not whining, as I don't use Mudbox right now in any case. I'm just…
Wow. Skymatter was only like 4 dudes or something wasn't it? I'm sure this will make Max/Maya users out there happy. My main concern would be changing the development of Mudbox into a less-friendly user application, more expensive and integration into into Autodesk's existing software (for those that don't use Max or…
It'd also be nice if some things like baking of normal maps behaved the same in Max, Maya, and Mudbox. I don't see this acquisition as a bad thing though. Autodesk didn't have a digital sculpting tool and was missing out. I don't think they'd buy skymatter and stagnate Mudbox, I think they'll actually pump more money into…
So Autodesk has finally got the missing 3D piece of software, theyd already bought the leaders in everything else 3D oriented. Im sure I learnt some stuff in economics at university about monopolys being bad and competition being good? I really hope that this just gives skymatter the resources they need to kick some Zbrush…