Getting frustrated with bugs... 2005-06-03 - By Bernard Lebel
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On one hand I'll go with the flow and say as well that if you don't
provided any info about your problem, it can hardly be answered
intelligently.
On the other hand, no software is meant for everyone. Personally I
think if you believe you'd be better in another software, then go for
it. In the end, convincing you the software is great when it is
painful would be a waste of energy. What matters is your experience,
not mine.
One note though: no one in this community (or maybe few of them...)
have "money to throw around" to quote you. Even for larger companies,
every penny counts. When you buy a Foundation license for your home
computer needs, a company generally buys Essential or Advanced, and
add to that render farm licenses and employee salaries.
Cheers
Bernard
On 6/3/05, Joel Blackwell <joel@(protected)> wrote:
> 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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