 | | | Re: Eovia exagerating their plug in prices!!!! | Re: Eovia exagerating their plug in prices!!!! 2004-06-29 - By Andrew
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I agree with you on some points. CAD Style does seem to be quite
expensive for what it appears to offer (a mere import of more file
formats). But, I don't have a problem with the price for Transposer,
through considering it does more than allow an import of still
images, but also imports animations. (However, I should also say that
I don't own Poser, Transposer, or CAD Style.)
As for the cost of plugins, I think Eovia gives us all the API on the
CD (or at least makes it available to us for no charge.) So, anyone
can theorically make a pluggin to do however one wishes to, or to
even make one to import differen't file formats for us.
Programming is not easy (well, sometimes it is depending on the
project), if it was then there would be a great number of pluggins
out that would be on every "I love Carrara" webpage. This is
something I would like to look into but due to time constrains I find
myself with little time to use Carrara itself, without even learning
it's API and furthering my knowledge of C++.
If I had the time to learn and practice with the API, I would love to
see lattice deformers in C. It would be a good, simple way to
animate objects and would be an invaluable modelling tool as well.
However when looking at Eovia, other than transposer and CAD style,
which pluggins do they make? The far less pricey (and more useful to
me) pluggins are created by 3rd party programmers who love and devote
themselves to the furtherment of C's abilities.
Someone mentioned a pluggin ring that can make and sell memberships
to get a pluggin for no additional charge than a yearly fee. Did you
know that yahoo has another "group" just for pluggin developers of
Carrara? Maybe this group would be a place to look for either
starting a membership club or even to get help making your own or
perhaps to see if people can help you out by providing already made a
pluggins to do the things that you want to do with C.
AWBenson
--- In Carrara@(protected), "darthbobvilla" <spinarouni1@(protected)>
wrote:
> i know i know, programming costs a lot of money and a company is
out
> to make money and not lose money but i find that eovia's business
> model is run by !!!!!!tS !!!!!!!!
>
> what will people think when they see a plug in that they would like
> to have but with a price tag that is close to half and more of the
> base program ( carrara ) .
>
> Case in hand daz as you may know as acquired bryce and is seling a
> plug in to import daz figure and guess what the plug in does not
> cost an arm and a leg.NOW THAT IS good business sense to me.
>
> i think that might have been the plan all along from eovia. to make
> a fairly reasonable base price for the program but to get features
> that people will like and need in then people will have to fork
thru
> the nose to get them as plug ins.( cad style, transposer)
>
> i don't like companies that go with that kind or practice in mind
> and they should have charged more for the program and give a break
> to people who bought their stuff to begin with as far as when they
> wanna purchase plug ins.
>
> carrara is a beautifull and powerfull piece of software but is has
> only 2 things going for it.
>
> ease of use and a superb render engine.
>
> other than that people can go get lightwave and get tons of plugins
> for cheap or free and get down on what they need to do, do you see
> that at eovia ...no!
>
> i guess they don't want to have too many people make plug ins
> because they would probably lose a buck or 2 from that situation.
>
> I really hate companies that have the dollar sign in the head
> flasing all the time.
>
> Yeah we got great ideas and yeah we are able to put them out but
> YEAH you are puting prices on your plug ins that not every joe will
> want to spend on right away.
>
> Carrara was suposed to be a solution for people who could not
afford
> the likes of lightwave and such but from the prices i am seeing the
> plug ins are in the range of plug in prices for those programs.
>
> and the way i see it be prepared to have a fit when cs 4 comes out
> cause we may be in with a huge deception on the price of cs 4.
>
> anyway that was my rant for the day. i know it ain't gonna change
> jack but i am not gonna be the one losing money because i am so
> greedy about what i sell...eovia is the one that will have to deal
> with it. i may turn to some other software down the road...
>
> nuff said
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