Joe Purcell

Fantastic story loved it well done

Tea party round hutzagets....I'll bring the biscuits

they have been doing that mac in development thing for years wonder how long till its finished

Parts still work parts don't it was not to have the book for learning more just interested in what was published ages ago about ei I only got my hands on v5.5 then 6.5 now v9 one of the things I like looking at is modeller why oh why did that get dropped looked good for that time. Wish we could bring it back from the dead

Yes please do explain like how to set them up how to edit them etc tried the free ones quickly and all the did was blow out everything. More EI training in general would help me thinks

Bah spelling sucks

So you goons buy it Tomas? I found it as I was looking for old EI books. I have one called professional 3D with electoric image universe. And thought humm what other old books might there be. Ebay turned up that the eddy XD but no books lol

Forgot to post the link XD http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/370628143562?cmd=VIDESC

Found this eddy for sale giving to eias 2.5 Tomas buy it ASAP then give it to me XD

Yeah I should of mentioned igors too as a big plus. Is it just those 2 only or are there more programmers than that? Don't want to leave anyone out on the praise XD lol

I'm hoping for interactive viewport rendering and nodes and finally a built in sub-d. Really really don't want to buy encage for that. The interface could do with an update just look at lightwave 9 to lightwave 11 same interface really just updated to make it cleaner. Also scroll wheel support. In fact I could add a massive list to this but not going to. Gonna have faith in igors and Tomas. Prob the best feature of Eias is Tomas hands down he always seems to talk to us answer question help with projects. Got to big him up for that. Kudos mate

Oh dear my spelling and grammar is getting worse.

Tom there a a guy on cg talk who is helping nevercenter. Maybe you could get in in contact with him and find the .fact issue and solve it. From what he has hinted at 2.3 is just a base clean up of code and 64 bit support with linux support too. With the plan to give new features with more updates. Maybe will will see a silo v3. But anyway this guy is talking and has silo sorce code so what are you waiting for hunt him down XD

How many lines of code is in eias now. Sure you mentioned it in an interview. Well what ever it was I remember thinking dammmmmm! Well I wish you all the best I the rewrites I'll keep my wish list ready for v11. Hoping lots of my v10 get granted haha. Hope to see an update this year

Such a tease Tomas. Not sure what your planning sure it will be worth the wait plenty needs doing but v9 was a massive leap forward. Still many more leaps though to get the world looking at eias. With you at the helm and igors programming I still have faith.

Modeling? Or am I thinking too big Tom? Can't wait to see what ever you come up with sure it will be worth the wait

Hay Tom since apple is pushing opencl now (as stated at there 2013 keynote) and now that macpro with dual gpu as a-posed to CPU, what could it do for EI and is it something your looking into.

Well i thought i would chime in here. i used EI v5.5 and just updated to V9 but i also last year got modo 601 £400 and this year upgraded it for £181 to 701 also (note that modo has issues with mavericks now) so if your on a mac don't use osx 10.9 but modo has linux support and windows. i have no used modos network rendering yet (also unlimited) but EIAS renderama is just too easy to set. both modo and EI v9 will sort you out in terms of rendering for arch vis work. EI being faster but modo having viewport rendering is a big workflow enhancement. so if both apps can render what you want just fine both have unlimited render nodes. (as far as i am aware modos network rendering use's all cpus on 1 frame at a time using buckets) so if your doing animation work EI should be even faster. modo offers loads of extra tools that EI does not have yet but thats not saying the guys are not working on them. its been a year since v9 so 10 should be well underway. EI has tomas who responds to almost every single tread ever posted and even helps debug your scenes if he can thats amazing support. i know EI is lacking in many places but since you make models in turespace and seem to be looking animation/renderer EI will be the fastest. it just depends on if you need the other tools that comes with modo. i would love tomas to get EI modeller back in the game and some other updates. i would love to sell EI more and more but i also use modo messiah lightwave silo EI just depends on how I'm feeling any given day to what i would like to play with. i would say get both XD but then i know for some people that is not possible. and i would just like to ask since i used turespace back in v5 and 6 how the hell are you still using that. i found truspace crashed on me 20+ times a day. man that gives me nightmares though i was found of the interface. XD

How about a EIAS10 promotion this year instead ......<ever the optimist Xx

Contact the seller direct they will sometimes give you an alternate file format to make a sale

You get a 2nd email after from them mine took about 2-3 hours As for cutting edge stuff 2 big ones stand out for me 64 bit animator with a updated GUI ( don't need to change really just nicer looking like lightwave 9 vs 10 same gui just cleaner design though under the hood prob lots changed. And the 2nd is native sub-d (Opensubdiv) would be fantastic. Kind of odd that eias must be one of the last programs on earth to ship sub-d as a plugin. I have faith though ask, Thomas how many years now I have buged him about eias3D. I'm sure 10 is going to get some much needed love. My bet is softbody bullets and 64 bit animator though I really would love Opensubdiv but at lest animator laughs at high poly counts even as a 32bit app But I'm happy with 9 and will give it a better test drive when I can. Oh can eias import ies lighting profiles if not that would be nice. Well I have a massive lists of wants Cus I'm greedy XD

Well after 2 years of ummmming and arrrrhing i just updated my EIAS 6.5 to 9.1 and i feel like a little kid again, early holiday gift to myself. just waiting for my unlock Code feels like i am living in bullet time waiting for this email to arrive. oh well cup of tea while i wait XD

Shame they won't sell it wish they would

Hay just wanted to say it's been almost a year how long do we have to wait for development news, not trying to rush you or be an ass I'm just really wanting to know what Santa has for me if anything at all. Come on guys you must be bursting at the seems with good ideas.

Although i am still waiting for some money before i get EIAS 10. i updated lightwave and got modo 601 back in the holiday sale. i do keep a watchful eye on EIAS V9 and still plan to update as soon as i free up the founds. now V9 got one of my wish's that was Bullet, and although soft bodies has yet to be added at lest that was a start. so here is my list for V10 there is no order to this. EIAS wish list 1) Scroll wheel support 2) Bullet soft bodies 3) A decent fracture tool like lightwaves 4) 64 bit animator sure you guys are on it. 5) improve the material editor. (i like nodes) 6) a decent particle tool set 7) build encage and proxy into the main EIAS app 8) an updated UI even 3d world review says its showing its age. 9) VPR or dynamic preview render would really help. 10) better material preview 11) Linux support (i know its not going to happen) 12) better IK rigging systems and tools for building armatures (messiah has fantastic tools for this) 13) Dongle Free EIAS. Website wish list 1) regular news updates or a blog its nice to know if you guys are still alive 2) more artist interviews talking about how and why they use EIAS. 3) Update the website with decent video tutorials even selling them if the quality is there. 4) Do an Eshop like daz for selling content (models, textures, HDRs, etc) to help generate income