CompuServe Thread

tim 1st i'm a multy 3d program user and i know the problem of standard but you cant count on MS or SGI because MS will always support windows and win 95 while most of us have dos based progs and SGI will buy any company that will start thinking of pc support for their programs as they done with ALIAS and WAVEFRONT (a little too late). i think that the smaller manufactors as BYTE BY BYTE IMPULSE RAY DREAM and others must combine their forces and push farther they progs all around the world and force 3ds outside (useing the prices as the main tool) by creating a unique file format for them and by erecting a plug-in manufactor for them all. 3ds prices will be the reason ,many will move to other progs i know i did even though i am experienced enough in it. i teach 3d and my course cost $ 3000 for 180 hours then another $2500 for a computer at home and at last a prog to work with so thats becomes a anormous expanse that why i move to soft f/x imagine ray dream and so on. but nobody bothers to market them in israel despite of it being a highly computerized place and the best multimedia and edutainment companies are from israel. Autodesk is the only one in most of asian an european countries so how do you expect change this situation. amit