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I would also choose Modo. In addition it would give you something to fall back on renderwise, should the ""exporting models to EIAS" route not work out....

Thank you for taking the time to have a personal conversation with me, Thomas! Will be interesting to see what you guys have been up too. (And no, he did not reveal anything new :D)

Well, still here keeping tabs on the progress....or "lack of" is more appropriate....and Thomas........it is now 8 months since you said (post #22) "almost there" ......8 MONTHS!!! :blink: Sorry but I can´t do anything else than laugh! :D

Still keeping track.....barely....over a month since my last post....why bother, right?...and as this is supposed to be some sort of a fresh start....a new era of sorts.....is this the way to restore faith and confidence in the company and the product? This is getting redonkulous......

I hear you...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8E_zMLCRNg

Like I said, no need to let Modo steal the attention by releasing now.... and here is Modo 601 http://www.luxology....modo/index.aspx Absolutely gobsmacking....

Well, I´ve never been a fan of the "Silence" modus operandi they are running and for obvious reasons. I occationally stumble upon these "Has anyone heard of this EIAS software?" threads and shure, I could always promote EIAS, but being out of the loop I just don`t know what to say. "It`s has been around for a long time....but hey, it`s STILL being developed!!" probably does more damage than good. So I just keep my mouth shut and move on. Also, since they haven`t set any real deadline.... outside the company, that is.... they haven`t actually committed to anything. Which makes it easy to take a few extra days or another week to polish this or that. Who is to know, right? Judging by the last few months that would be my guess as to what has been going on. And just to keep track of things. It is 7 MONTHS since the announced feature freeze?? Yet another month has passed since the post I´m replying to. Tomas has now been running for 3 months :wacko: AND I predict that February will pass without v9 seeing the light of day. WHY? Simply because TWO of the competitiors is scheduled for a release this month. Lightwave, January release, Newtek running a similar "Silence" M.O. has blown YET another deadline (no surpise there).....and Modo. So letting them steal whatever little thunder EIAS might muster would be a waste. Just my 2 cents.

And we´re there.....

Yeah, you`re right....... January is coming fast.... :)

Yeah, you`re right....... January is coming fast.... :)

Signed up for the newsletter again. And I just realized that it was 2 years in May since v8 was released. Jeez.....

Hm, I remember receiving newsletters from you before. Anyways, thanks! :)

And that month has passed.... so wazzup?

Another free renderer in the making: http://www.evermotion.org/nox

Hm, that sounds interesting. Look forward to your tutorial

That is so. But so far the only way I have found to import Blender fluids into EIAS goes through OBJ sequences, and this is a PITA on the PC side, at least it was the last time I tried since you can´t select and import the whole sequence at once, you have to do it one at a time.

I´m guessing your on a mac?

Some more info on the subject: http://code.blender.org/index.php/2011/04/modernizing-shading-and-rendering/ Looks like blender is turning into a commercial app killer.

Curious as to what you guys think of this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bDaRXvXG0E&feature=player_embedded

Thanks, Diego. I´ll have another try with Animation Master to see if I can locate the error.

Here is the OBJ/mtl and the MDD. There is a couple of polys missing due to the 5-point patches in Animation Master......

I was trying out the MDD export from Animation Master and importing this into EIAS. But it keeps giving me an error message as if the geometry does not match the MDD file. It makes no difference if I convert the file to Fact in Silo or try to convert the OBJ in EIAS. Importing the OBJ/MDD into LW works without problems so the OBJ and MDD obviously matches, which makes me suspect that the issue may be the latest version of Silo or the import into EIAS. Can I send the MDD and OBJ somewhere for closer inspection?

Since the topic was water......this thing done in Blender is just....wow!

You can find the percentage by looking at the source of the page. (This isn´t exact though, due to the way the bar is done, so you can probably add 2 or 3 to that number). And now the source says 71%......

I decided to throw in 40$ on a Pro version....just have to wait and see what happens....