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Metaballs....

Metaballs....

2005-04-11       - By kim aldis

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I was actually using an alpha of 1.0. ;-)



> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Stefan Andersson
> Sent: 11 April 2005 19:20
> To: XSI@(protected)
> Subject: Re: Metaballs....
>
> Seems like a strange comment to make since users have been
> asking for it since 1.5 (no one except Kim was using 1.0...).
>
> There has been tons of times where I've been in need for metaballs...
> and each time we have dug up an old PIII machine and Softimage|3D 3.8
> sp2 (also known as the golden release.... hehe)
>
> best regards
> stefan andersson
>
>
> On Apr 11, 2005 7:53 PM, Dan Yargici <dan@(protected)> wrote:
> > Bizarre, and I'm betting the reason metaballs came up in
> conversation
> > in the first place was because you too were requesting them........
> >
> > Metaballs have become more like primitives surely in this
> modern age
> > of the automobile and combustion-engine???
> >
> > Frankly I'm shocked, and I'm about to cry....
> >
> > DAN
> >
> >
> > Lawrence Nimrichter wrote:
> >
> > >When Chinny was visiting our company we had a nice lengthy
> > >conversation with him. He explained to us very clearly that there
> > >were no plans for Softimage to develop metaballs. He told
> us that the
> > >reason behind this was that they didn't see that adding metaballs
> > >would cause them to sell more seats of XSI, thus had no
> intention of adding it. This was approximately 4 months ago.
> > >
> > >Sorry for the bad news.
> > >
> > >Lawrence Nimrichter
> > >Director Of Animation
> > >Spontaneous
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >-- --Original Message-- --
> > >From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On
> > >Behalf Of Dan Yargici
> > >Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 10:46 AM
> > >To: XSI@(protected)
> > >Subject: Metaballs....
> > >
> > >I can only apologise for this but I have to get this off my
> > >chest........ again.......
> > >
> > >For the love of god, is there any hope/word/prayer that we
> might have
> > >metaballs in the future?.... It's kind of embarrassing to have to
> > >explain to a client (obviously I don't *actually* explain)
> why their
> > >tampon/shampoo/detergant ad is going to take twice as long they
> > >expected purely because I have to fart around with
> particles that i
> > >can't even shade properly..... It's a shampoo ad for god's
> sake! It's
> > >the bread and butter of post houses around the world....
> and at the
> > >moment trying to get this done is like pulling teeth.
> > >
> > >Chinny, please, nail-gun this one to the old bonce...
> pretty please.
> > >
> > >Rant over.... sorry 'bout that..... as you were....
> > >
> > >DAN
> > >
> > >
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