Re: CADstyle Pricing information clear up 2004-06-30 - By Andrew
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That does clear-up a bit of the pricing "hatred" for the new
product. Truthfully, I've never heard of those file formats (and
their respective products) until the release of CAD Style.
So, it does make since to charge "an arm and a leg" to support a
product that also costs that and more.
One has to wonder how many people will actually buy this product,
through. I guess it's enough to warrant the release of the pluggin,
but it sounds like it's a frightfully narrow market (or the first
move to overtake an existing market, it depends on how they market
it).
On the other side of the topic, Transposer suppositively can import
animations too. There are very few products that will import another
program's animation. 3DS, obj, and many other importable file
formats simply hold still objects. Their respective native programs
use a propreitary format that holds animations, special effects, and
things like that. These things don't usually get beyond their own
program. So, $130 for this pluggin doesn't seem to be too bad.
Personally, I would create my own human models. But that is the
mentality that I was programmed with at animation school. Now, if
this pluggin was for AM, then maybe my interests would spark up
considerably. :-)
AWBenson
--- In Carrara@(protected), "nicholas8681" <nicholas8681@(protected)>
wrote:
> Just to show how the price is reasonable you must take a look at
the
> pricing of the CAD programs themselves
>
> Autodesk Inventor with various price levels (different CAD
programs)
> ranging from $1595-4695
>
> Cobalt is priced at $3995
>
> Xeon (alternative to Cobalt the next step down) $2995
>
> Of the other CAD programs listed I found it difficult to find
prices
> on there websites. This usually means that the pricing is at least
> $3000 if not a LOT higher..hehe..thats been my experience, if they
> hide the price its a bit high. Now that said, lets look at CAD
> rendering software.
>
> Flamingo is a good example priced at $495 keep in mind this just
> renders nothing else. There are a quite a few others that are
priced
> in the thousands....at least thats my guess...since I can't find a
> price, and all I can find is older listings from $1000 on up...I've
> heard of some that are in the 20k range.
>
> Price comparison
> $299+$399= $600 For a $100 dollars more what do I get? A simple
> modeler if I need a quick logo or wait...a TREE!!!, simple
character
> animation, oh look at this nice texture editor, oh wow I can do NPR
> rendering as well, and look I can add a particle fountain for
better
> realism and visualization
>
> $495 Lets see I can render...hmm..maybe animate...but can I place a
> poser character into this scene and animate it..hmm no? Oh...what
> about growing grass on a plain for a quick visualization? hmmm ok...
>
> All I'm saying is that CADstyle is designed for a different market.
> If you make $20000 on rendering out a series of illustrations and
> designs for a skyscraper I really don't think you'd mind paying
$299
> for an importer into a program you have, or will purchase that
would
> give you a bit more capability then your standard renderer. I for
> one think its a good move for Eovia. My only add on suggestion
would
> be improving realtime support, since I think thats the major thing
> some of the renderers give you over Carrara is a nice smooth
> realtime walkthrough, which I imagine given a nice graphics card
> Carrara would do decent.
>
> Brian
> brian@(protected)
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