CompuServe Messages

Did anyone catch a review in the November issue of CADalyst titled "See the Light!" Basically, it's a glowing review of 3DStudio R3's capabilities. I, for one, would like to add my approval and praise for R3's capabilities and quality. And most of all, it's a product I've been able to make money with. But, in the first 3 or 4 paragraphs, the author made reference to all of the industry standard competitors, including Wavefront, Alias, and SoftImage, and went on to compare R3's ability to run inside Windows to be something akin to Silicon Graphic's multi-tasking. The article then went on to imply being able to use a body glove to animate physically correct human movement, and that the IPAS interface was capable of incorporating the physical properties of gravity. Now, for my money, and for the money I can get my customers to spend, 3DStudio is by far a best performer, but isn't there a real threat here that we could all get inflated egos like the Commodore folk, and actually think that pigs can fly? And that we really did get Alias and SoftImage for $3000? After all, it looks like the Toaster will be getting a kinetics program capable of detecting collision and possibly be able to deform geometry accordingly. And maybe sometime in the future, it MIGHT be ported over to IPAS. What's my point? I guess I'm worried that we're going to go the same route as Autocad's hopelessly stalled interface. After all, nobody seemed to take rendering in Autocad very seriously until Integraph came out with their new product. Enough philosophizing. I think I'll go put on my body glove, and do some character animations while multi-tasking in Windows. <g>