#R3 vs. Silicon Garden
28-Oct-93 11:42:06
Sb: #63788-#R3 vs. Silicon Garden
Fm: Yost Group 76702,413
To: Roger Danielsen 70323,3034
Gee Roger, you must be operating under the assumption that I'm
perfect. Contrary to popular belief, that is not true. I just try
the best I can, and I make mistakes just like anybody else. I _did_
test every IPAS routine I had. When it came to Silicon Garden, I ran
the Willow, Deciduous, Campion, Mycelis, Rose, fractal shapes,
Place.pxp and Fractalize.pxp. I just didn't think to run the
Evergreen model. Everything else worked fine.
From your tone of voice, it sounds to me like you're feeling hurt that
you weren't asked to be a beta tester. However, you never ASKED to
be a beta tester. We only make people beta testers if they ask for
the job because not everyone likes to work with pre-release software.
With the amount of work that you've got into 3DS over the past few
years, I would've been happy to make you a beta testers for R3.
Regarding IPAS programs not being connected to the core program and
its update schedule… we do our best on one thing at a time. The
primary reason why 3DS is the most robust 3D animation system on the
PC is because we DO focus. Again, we're not perfect, and we don't
have unlimited resources.
Regarding confidence in my work. If you don't have confidence in me
by now, after seeing how committed I am to my customers, then I'll
never be able to make you happy. Have you considered going with
another 3D animation package? Perhaps you can find someone you'd
have more confidence in.
Finally, regarding your email… I haven't looked at my huge backlog
of email from the past 4 days yet… I've had a wicked case of the
flu this week and I'm only logging onto ASOFT to answer urgent
questions like this. As I've said before, I'm very regular with
ASOFT support, but email takes a back-seat to it. Please have a some
patience with me. I'm still physically exhausted from finishing R3
and need quite a bit of recuperation — and this flu has really set
me back. As GregP mentioned, if you need to render something with
the evergreen tree, just boot up R2 and render it there.
Dancing as fast as I can,