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OwenHewitt — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 06:55:36 GMT

"Autodesk will no longer offer Gmax® software as a stand-alone product." ... Dumm De Dumm Dumm, Dumm De Dumm Dumm Daaaaaaaaa!! Very sneaky those chaps at Autodesk!

I'm anxious to see what all pans out from this ... The whole community (who uses Gmax, of course) is anxious!!!

Owen

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pixelpoke — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 07:31:28 GMT

Owen;

Yep. Certainly a bit of a shocker all round.

Jason

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Fr. Bill Leaming — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 07:37:16 GMT

Oh darn... Just as I have started to get really, really good with both Max and GMax... ;)

Hopefully, we won't get "orphaned" in the process...

Bill Leaming
3d Modeler & C Programmer
Eaglesoft Development Group

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pixelpoke — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 11:44:08 GMT

Bill,

I'll say this, if you've gotten "really good with both Max and GMax," then regardless of the outcome you ought to be fine. Even if in the future we have to use oh, I don't know... "Super Magic Fairy Dust (tm)."

The important part is the expertise with 3D, the concepts involved, and any associated technologies.

ACES is a Max shop, but we could use Maya or XSI or "Super Magic Fairy Dust (tm)" if we have to. Same goes for you.

The important part is to minimize any pain you as a member of the third party community has to go through, and at this point we don't know if there'll even be *any* pain.

Cheers,

Jason

PS There;s no such product as ""Super Magic Fairy Dust (tm)." ;)

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Fr. Bill Leaming — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:50:47 GMT

Thanks, Jason. I've long known that any tool is only as "good" as the hands of the artist who wields said tool...

As proof of that concept, one need only look at the Eaglesoft Citation X, or one of Dave Eckert's fabulous models to see what even FSDS2 is capable of delivering. Were it not for a few glaring shortcomings (such as the inability to parse MakeMDL.parts.xml), it is an extremely capable tool.

Where Max and GMax shine of course, is the sheer range of available tools that may be used, but at the end of the chain, mesh is mesh... ;)

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pixelpoke — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 21:33:25 GMT

Bill,

Yah Louis has done good things for the community (long before there was a Gmax). And for those who don't know what we're talking about...

FSDS is a stand alone 3D authoring tool written for flight sim:
http://www.abacuspub.com/catalog/s492frame.htm

cheers.

Jason

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Robert Bruce — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 01:17:16 GMT

Hi Jason, thanks for the interesting and enlightening blog. :)

It is disappointing but not surprising that Autodesk have discontinued Gmax as a standalone aplication given that it has been stuck at version 1.2 for a long while.

I notice that the free version is still available as a download at Turbo Squid http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax If that remains available I guess all that means in the short term is that any possible cool new 3D features, possibly things like normal mapping, if included in the next FS can't be achived via the Gmax route.

The XSI mod tool looks interesting http://www.softimage.com/products/Mod/v4/ At first glance it appears to be a similar concept to Gmax. But will it remain around too?

As Bill has pointed out the mod community has been around for a while and no doubt will continue to do so. Gmax opened the door to an extent and encouraged many more to take up the hobby and no doubt encouraged many people to buy the main 3DS Max application.

The future will be interesting to say the least. :)

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Nick Whittome — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:49:48 GMT

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"There;s no such product as ""Super Magic Fairy Dust (tm)." ;)
/End Quote

From what I saw, I don't believe that... there is definitely some kind of magic going on in those offices.

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OwenHewitt — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:43:35 GMT

Here's an interesting thread about the whole gmax future issue ...

http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=122&topic_id=24642&mesg_id=24642&page=

Regards,

Owen

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pixelpoke — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:49:08 GMT

Hi Owen, Thanks for the link. I've been tracking that thread and a few others as well. Cheers, Jason

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OwenHewitt — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:16:50 GMT

Ah, great! So I suppose you are following this one too? :-)

http://www.aerodynamika.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=General;action=display;num=1128763712

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pixelpoke — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:44:32 GMT

O,

Nope. Hadn't seen it. Thanks.

J

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