I'm supposed to be in Las Vegas for One Team Conference (pep rally for the channel) and in SF for GDC. At the same time... I'd much rather be in SF with all those crazy Game guys than wandering lost in Casino X, Y or Z. Right now, I'm stuck in Montreal for a whopper of a snow storm…
Posted: March 02, 2007
Category: GDC
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Comments: 2
OK, well I get beaten up on the forums for all the problems users run into (and the fact that many of them turn out to be user error is really an issue with the complexity of our products), so I was hoping that some of you who read this blog would actually give me ONE thing you like…
Posted: February 24, 2007
Category: Looking Forwards
Views: 972
Comments: 19
Here's an email from one of our testing experts who had a chance to put the new Revit/DWG interop to the test. You'll find these new tools in the announced VIZ 2008 and 3ds Max 9 Extension 1 (subscriptoin only). Hope they work as well for you.
Posted: February 20, 2007
Category: Looking Forwards
Views: 373
Comments: 0
What a fuzzy topic to try to pin down. How is quality measured? Crashers, workflow, perceptions? I don't know the "right" answer, but we try to use whatever tools we can that give us something we can measure. This graph shows the number of support calls we receive over the same period…
Posted: February 20, 2007
Category: Looking Forwards
Views: 368
Comments: 2
In case you missed it, we announced VIZ 2008 as part of the global launch. What's unique about this VIZ release is that it has inherited the dramatic viewport performance improvements from 3ds Max 9 along with the new mental ray sun/sky and architecural & design shader. Plus, it has…
Posted: February 16, 2007
Category: Announcement
Views: 533
Comments: 0
Here's what happens when I let the designers control what we build. They were very frustrated that every release we tended to drop some small features that were less important than the major features in order to hit our quality/schedule. We're now trying to do the right thing by rolling…
Posted: February 14, 2007
Category: Announcement
Views: 425
Comments: 2
From what I see on the forums, it is hit or miss getting things to work with 3ds Max 9 and Vista (make sure you install w/Admin priveledges and right-click the 3ds Max icon to select properties->compatibillity tab->XP compatibility mode).
Posted: February 07, 2007
Category: Looking Forwards
Views: 478
Comments: 2
If you're as nerdy as I am, you'll enjoy watching this video of some of the pioneers of computer graphics discussing their early experiences.
Posted: February 02, 2007
Category: Looking Back
Views: 376
Comments: 0
There are some principles that I'd like to see our product direction follow...
Posted: January 29, 2007
Category: Looking Forwards
Views: 625
Comments: 6
