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
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
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Have any of you heard about the new "home use" for Subscription users? In the past, you could "borrow" a license from work and transport it home to use it at home - but then you had to remember to move it back to work. You can still transport licenses, but now you can simply install…
Posted: March 26, 2007
Category: AnnouncementSubscription
Comments: 4
Just as we thought we had created the world's most significant VIZ release in years, we discovered to our horror that we screwed up the install on VIZ 2008 and you can ONLY install using the default path. As luck would have it, we discovered this too late to stop the shipment. We're…
Posted: April 02, 2007
Category: Announcement
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Here we find 3ds Max in the hands of high-school robotics fans. Autodesk sponsored the event and 3ds Max was used by kids to create animations which were then judged for awards. Ted Boardman put in an appearance to help explain how it all works.
Posted: April 20, 2007
Category: Announcement
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The good news is that we've posted the latest Service Pack 2 for download. This was primarily intended to fix various Vista-related issues so that we could bring all customers up to Vista compatibility. So the really good news is that anyone using Vista should really value this Service…
Posted: May 11, 2007
Category: Announcement
Comments: 15
The good news: your favorite animation product has won an Emmy! The bad news: due to litigation issues, we didn't get that cool statue...
Posted: January 11, 2008
Category: Announcement
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