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Jeff and Brian hit the nail on the head in terms of the ROI and the challenges involved. As most of you know, VisMasters is an initiative of ArchVision. Jeff knows firsthand the amount of work involved in programming and making the event work. Last year’s economic turmoil took a hit on many in the industry making it impractical to host an event in 2009. At this point VisMasters DMVC 2010 is not scheduled to occur. While there is tremendous need for such an event to occur, finding the magical mix of sponsor support and registration is challenging. Industry support for the event is critical – it’s the part of the equation that allows you to reduce the attendee cost, get killer speakers, etc. We agree leveraging this type of event with SIGGRAPH or similar event seems natural but executing is an entirely different story. I’ve been keeping up with the 5D Conference. Some of the guys from Neoscape attended the 2008 inaugural conference and they may be able to shed some additional detail on their program takeaways. As I understand it, due to economics 5D canceled their 2009 main event and instead opted to host mini events. 2010 may include a larger scale 5D conference -- if so I would look to that event for some relevant industry tracks.

First, thanks for the feedback. We appreciate it. We’re working on improvements to the email language and renewal process. We do send out regular emails regarding new content additions and software additions. Those emails are usually heavy with graphics and may be getting spammed out, and it is possible that you've inadvertently been placed on an opt-out list for that mailer. Your comments were useful and we shared them internally with the development team to address. With regard to the search process and finding ‘recently added content’ we are adding features this week to improve that behavior. However, it will not solve the desire to ‘auto-sync’ and/or auto-download new/recently added content. That feature is in the works. If you have additional feedback, please drop me a note directly or send a note to support@archvision.com Dee Fife ArchVision, Inc. | VisMasters

Hi Justin, A few answers to the questions you posted… This Plug-in change is specific to 3ds Max 2009. You only need one license to render – you can send a network render job to as many render nodes as you choose. Autodesk’s Revit is an RPC enabled product – the Plug-in is built in so you can use RPCs there without any additional cost issues. You can contact support directly at 859.252.3118 ext. 103 with additional technical questions or email support@archvision.com. Thanks, Dee

Hi Brian, Both the RPC Content and the included software (Composer, Viewport (beta), and RPC Plug-in for 3ds Max 2009) in RPC All Access are licensed. At the end of the free 30d trial, you would need to either purchase an RPC All Access plan to retain full functionality. Of course, if you just need the plug-in you can opt to purchase it as a stand alone product. You can try it here for free: http://commerce.vismasters.com/platform/rpc/static/subscriptions/trial/ Please let me know if you have any other questions. Dee

We’re glad you are using our RPC Content and we hope you continue using it. Yes, we’ve made a change to RPC Plug-in for 3ds Max 2009 – among other things it now includes the RPC Shadow-Plug-in. Customers may access the plug-in through RPC All Access (a free licensed RPC Plug-in for 3ds Max 2009 is available with any RPC All Access plan) or they may purchase it for a special existing customer rate ($49). Customers will receive an email detailing an option to purchase the plug-in for special existing customer rate. 3ds Max 2009 shipped with an RPC All Access CD 30d free trial to North America, Europe and Russia. If you didn't receive the CD please let me know dfife@archvision.com . Note: 3ds Max users who are using 3ds Max 2008 or lower are not impacted by this update. Thanks for your support.