Getting frustrated with bugs... 2005-06-03 - By Matt Lowery
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Hey Joel,
I'm not sure how to reply to a mail like this... If you give an example of a
specific bug then maybe someone could help you out.
I know how you feel about the bugs, although I only encounter the odd one or
two in the render tree, and yes I run a gaming card on my workstation, and
working beside other workstations with certified hardware I don't understand
why anyone would waste there money getting a "pro" graphics card, ( just MHO
of course.)
I find v4 to be buggier that previous versions, ( unplugging things in the
render tree seems to be a big problem in v4, and snapping to centres seems
to work when it feels like it.) but I can put up with those things because
the rest of the package is pretty damn solid.
Maybe try posting presets of the render tree that isn't working for you,
don't forget that there are hundreds of ways of achieving effects in the
render tree maybe it's just that you aren't choose the right method to get
the job done.
Like I said, it's hard to comment if you don't supply an example...
regards
m@
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From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]On Behalf
Of Joel Blackwell
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 12:40 PM
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: Getting frustrated with bugs...
I'm considering selling XSI, mainly because I'm finding it hard to learn
the program, due to the fact I run into a bug every few minutes when
working with shaders. Every time I post about the problems (on a
forum), someone pipes up and tells me something like, "You must have
missed something." or, "The problem must be with your graphics card."
Perhaps either one of those could be true, since I'm not using a
certified card, and I'm no XSI know-it-all. However, no one seems to
care if the problem could actually be worth looking to. My posts just
disappear into nothingness, never to be seen again. Seemingly, my only
solution I have is- risk paying some money for a certified card (which
is beyond my price range at the moment) that may not fix the problems
I've been seeing anyway.
This is obviously a great community for people who work in a
professional environment, and have money to throw around everywhere for
proper support and the hardware to suit a professional pipeline. But,
for people like myself, XSI seems more and more the poorer program to go
with. Softimage may be doing everything they can to increase their
userbase, but the program just isn't designed for the average person...
and right now, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I mean, why develop a
program for certified (non-gamer) cards, and then aim the program at mod
makers for games? It just doesn't make any sense.
That aside, does anyone have some advice for me? Last time I posted on
this mailing list everyone tried to kill me as the marauding invader
from the land of Truespace (if anyone remembers that fiasco). This
time, I'm hopeful that won't happen again, and someone will help me get
this program working as it should. Or, the Softimage crew will actually
note down some bugs to be fixed, so I don't have to sell XSI and move
onto something that works.
Thanks.
-Joel
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