nostril do your own freakin' homework on what you're trying to panda too... its a studio of 6 programs collectively known as houdini, however there are also is "an SDK including a Plugin's Library for Professional developers of Softimage, 3D Studio Max and Maya which will extend the current capabilities of your current program of choice..."
and you'll find all the programs that they're glowing about on the website are form professionals using these plugins... non of which really 100% contribute to using a new program.
It's like ChilliSkinner for Max3/4 - it could be lived without and although does add something, i'm hardly gonna sit here and say "Oh ChilliSkinner is an awesome skinning program that has been used on Command&Conqure Generals, Primal, Elite4, etc..."
and then have someone like Athoney Leiman go "yeah i've used it and i find it very helpful" adding to the end "if you can't gather, everyone at Genome Software thinks that ChilliSkinner is great and simple to use!"
i used the bloody thing and it is a ripp on Maya, nothing more nothing less ... i'd probably recommend it to moron's who don't have the braincells to strum together to actually use Maya - but then god knows why you'd want to.
It's stupid that the render's done in it for films were done with Maya or Softimage scenes using Renderman (which you can quite easily do in Maya itself) just so that they could export and edit in Photoshop easier. As i've noted the only thing i fell that this product is actually good at is the particles setup and rendering, but even then it lacks the essentially need animation physics that the others push to make it truely realisitic and life like effects which cna interact with scene in layers (which Houdini isn't capable of, to me this is a fatal bloody flaw) ... infact the only worth while work was by using it in tadam with another program which was setup for these things.
i truely dislike unoriginal clone, i truely hate companies that need to play on peoples words to make them sound good, and lastly i'd bloody pick Max over this for my modeling and rendering needs ... and that is certianly bloody saying something because i'm not exactly Max's biggest fan either.
look aroud the whole community for this product, its all about making the users feel good that they choose to use it over the other packages... you don't see the Mayan community going around "Oh this is the best, we've got a handful of pro's to say something to that effect - you're using the best program!"
infact you look around thier site and Alias|Wavefront will recommend you for certain aspects towards Softimage XSI - the same is visa-versa. if you truely believe that this is some amazing software studio then i feel sorry for you ... however the praises i see arn't comming from the artists of this community!
Tsu'va Oni Ni Jyuuko Fiori Sei Tau!
One block follows the suit ... the whole suit of blocks is the path ... what have you found?
