Digest Number 3270 2005-04-16 - By danchan@(protected)
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Agreed - and what's with Eovia and the recent plugin overhauls just to bilk us
out of money for the plugins we already paid for? The 'upgrades' should be
patches to the first ones and not something to cash cow. Further, who needs
another modeler when you have 3 modelers in your product line up - Carrara's
which is weak, Amapi which is strong but with weak support / community base
especially if you're in the US, and then Amapi Designer that was a consolation
prize to Carrara Pro users as if to say, "sorry we shipped you junk with
Carrara, here's some better junk for you to use..." - it shows when it's just a
tacked on CD with nothing but an electronic reference to glare at you from
Acrobat reader...
I've since decided forget about waiting for Eovia to come up with the perfect
solution and to migrate into the mainstream. I've always been a fan of the
underdog and Metacreations won me over in an dawning era of 3D graphics - that
's not to say Eovia hasn't done a decent job in maintaining the software they
inherited, but there's just something about the lack of anyone using Eovia's
software that puts a damper on things. When you have no users, you have no
sales, you have no developement budget, you get no results... To me, Eovia's
turning into a company that's out there for the buck now, I've reconsidered and
am going with Newtek and Lightwave where large updgrades are free (look at
Lightwave 8's history --> 8.2) and prices are comparable - especially at the
student level that I'm at... Then with a toolkit that people actually use,
maybe I'll find a job where I won't look like a fool for mentioning Eovia.
My two cents,
Dan
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