Brink Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 I have heard both that Viz is going to be dicontinued as a stand alone product to that is going to be coming out within the next year. Has anyone heard something offical other than hearsay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Denby Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 There is no more Viz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Nelson Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 What??? What are we going to do? Arrrgh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brink Posted July 23, 2003 Author Share Posted July 23, 2003 I have heard that but I have also heard that there is. Have you heard anything offical? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 i thought i heard something about it getting bundeled into adt, or some version of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgarcia Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 ADT 2004 has VizRender built-in now. IT only lets you render and change mats...check autodesk site. Xavier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Nelson Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 Yeah I've used VizRender here at work and I can't say I like it that much. I guess I could get used to it if I had to, but I prefer the traditional Viz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abicalho Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 If you want anything official, go to http://discussion.autodesk.com, choose Autodesk VIZ, Autodesk VIZ 4, click Search, enter "Rod Recker" and you'll see the announcement Rod did about the future of VIZ. The topics maybe misnamed, etc, because every week someone starts a new rummor about the future of VIZ. Alexander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Nelson Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 I just read this from the Viz4 discussion forum - from somebody that actually works there, I think... "From: Chad Ames - Autodesk Date: Jun/03/03 - 17:23 (GMT) Hi Gary, VizRender was not designed to be a replacement for Viz4. It was designed to be an easy to use (but very powerful) rendering and animation solution for arch desktop. A successor to Viz4 is currently under development and should be available later this year. Hope that clears things up a bit, Chad ADT Development" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 A successor to Viz4 is currently under development and should be available later this year.Chad ADT Development Sure. Hey, maybe it really is, but this comes from the company that spent two years pretending they were carrying Lightscape forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted July 24, 2003 Share Posted July 24, 2003 LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojciech Klepacki Posted July 24, 2003 Share Posted July 24, 2003 Hey, maybe it really is, but this comes from the company that spent two years pretending they were carrying Lightscape forward.But my question is: what to do next? Should I wait till Viz 5 will (if ever) come, switch to MAX or buy Cinema 4D...? I bought Viz 'couse my primary intention was to own relatively cheap rendering platform and I was told that Lightscape gone... Hard but true: Autodesk doesn't care about the end users... rgds, Wojciech Klepacki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted July 24, 2003 Share Posted July 24, 2003 what to do next?...I bought Viz 'couse my primary intention was to own relatively cheap rendering platform and I was told that Lightscape gone...Does VIZ work for you now? If so--don't worry about what to do next, use what you have. The only reason to upgrade software is if it will improve your work or workflow. Otherwise it is just corporate welfare. Lightscape is dead, but I use it every day and probably will for another year or so. I see that it is starting to hurt my work with the XP problems, so I must move on. I will buy C4D but put it into service SLOWLY. For now my main rendering app is Lightscape. Autodesk COULD have sold me upgrades to LS equal to what a new licence of VIZ4 would have cost (and I bought LS3.2 directly from them, all profit was theirs) but instead I am not buying ANY of their programs. I will buy from someone else. So don't feel you have to upgrade just for the sake of upgrading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted July 24, 2003 Share Posted July 24, 2003 Good post, well balanced arguments and well expressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgarcia Posted July 24, 2003 Share Posted July 24, 2003 Ernest, Just curious if Lightscape was running prefect in win2k why switch to XP? I still see no reason for me to move up (or down as some see it) to XP Pro. Lightscape works fine here in win2k Pro. Xavier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted July 24, 2003 Share Posted July 24, 2003 Just curious if Lightscape was running prefect in win2k why switch to XP?Just fine, no worries, mate. I didn't switch, really, I just bought a new computer. My older computer motherboard maxed at a 1G CPU, and took 768MB but was was only happy with 512. But it runs flawlessly. So I had to decide which OS for the new computer. I decided to give XP a try since I know that Microsoft abandons the 'previous' software, only fixing server-related bugs but not adding function. Like with NT4--no USB support or DirectX 7 or 8. I figured I would be better off a year or two from now trying to upgrade an XP box than one running W2K. I hope to have a more pleasant situation as I add new 'modern' software in XP. But it has not been a friend to poor old Lightscape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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