CompuServe Messages

There's another assumption I hold in the foundation of Syndesis. There's always going to be a demand for 3D data conversion. Programs come and go, companies merge, companies go out of business. Users are crafty and come up with seemingly crazy requests… It's sad but true that adding support for new file import/export is not high on the list of "things to do" for omst 3D developers. It's much more cost-effective to add new rendering features, for example. The incremental effort to support one new format may be considerable and probably only benefits or attracts a few users. If anything, they'll import the format, but not export it. In my experience, the decision often gets the thumbs-up or the thumbs-down from one person, a CEO or product manager of some kind, who either says "we need to support format X, only because it's so popular" or "we're not going to support format X, because that would be acknowledging that our competitor is successful, and we're not going to do anything to help them." So come on, name those programs that export .3DS files. 3D Studio and AutoCAD R13 don't count. 🙂