Little to no instability here. Some are just unlucky I guess.
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Little to no instability here. Some are just unlucky I guess.
Jack999,
I agree with you that falling behind on release dates is bad PR. And that bad PR is itself a poor business practice. Things have gotten better by leaps and bounds, but it's been a sore spot with many people for years.
Within that, though, you seem to be making contradictory points. I don't know whether you're saying:
a) Pixologic should hold off on a feature release and focus on stability,
or
b) Pixologic is harming the industry with each delay.
I have no problem with a), though I think you'll find it an unpopular view here. Most users are happy enough with their stability, and genuinely don't care about yours if it's going to cost them features.
As for b), I don't buy it. Nobody's making business decisions based on the proposed release date of a software update. If they're in a production, they're not installing that update. Doesn't matter what software we're talking about - the devil you know is always safer than the devil you don't. You can't gamble on an unknown when there are deadlines pressing.
Likewise, while I've been very impressed with Blender's progress of late, I don't think anyone's losing their customers to it, no matter how much some companies might deserve to lose customers.
People are always reluctant to try free software to replace something they've paid for. This sounds counterintuitive, but walking away from something isn't free - it costs every cent you've invested in licensing, training and R&D, while incurring new costs in the latter two columns. Heck, even if you ignore all that, the free software can't be cheaper than a free upgrade. At best, it can only be equivalent.
But really, cost is irrelevant. If you're in a professional environment, you're going to use the tools that your team is already trained in, unless a new tool is able to give you more power without disrupting the existing workflow. That's just the reality you're stuck with.
There are exceptions, of course. But they're few and far between.
Anyway, yes. We'll get it when we get it. And some users will have problems, but they'll love it regardless. And the world will keep spinning.
and which windows are you using?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kravit
zbrush is mostly unstable when you are out of memory. up until then it works just fine. theres the issue that freezes the application but that one shows up once a month at most for me, and is easily gotten around if you just hit the save hotkey.
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When I've had Zbrush crash on me, it was on a system with a bad memory controller. On my laptop, it has not crashed once. Well, it crashed when I tried to save Zcurves, but this is a known bug. It did not crash while I was actively modeling something.
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Take your time. Get it right.
You can be Heroes.
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ditto TuSoQuote:
Originally Posted by TuSo
Also - Cool Vid Man:tu:
I'm using 8 gigs of quality ram. There are plenty of bugs within zbrush that causes it to crash. Like masking at certain levels with transpose will cause it to crash just to name one.
I'm sure they will iron these bugs out.
Luckily I've never had file corrupted.
Hi.......
I am Francis.Regarding ZBrush 3.5 its amazing software to use for painting.With advanced geometric and image processing capabilities and advanced fom XBrush.For advanced capabilities It must include matlab features.
I have really nice experience with it and its satisfies all the requirements of painting.
Anyways its nice to use it.
Give me a quality product from a respectable company at a reasonable price, and I will happily pay when/if I can. Give me that with free upgrades for seven years, and I will gladly defend you in your own forum.*
zBrush 3.5 is going to be the shizzle, I can just feel it.
Sad thing is I used to spend all night working in a 3-view modeler one triangle at a time**, and in seven years I still have not put nearly as much time into zBrush. I sure wish I had that time now... Curse Pixologic and their stupid innovating ways! Why couldn't 3.5 have come out 15 years ago instead of a week from now?**
*Has it really been that long? Wooah.
**In those days we actually would name individual triangles. If you were working on a large model you'd just open the phone book to a random page and name them as you created them, three clockwise points at a time. (The order of point selection determined if the poly normal faced toward or away)
(Phone books were these books that the phone company...)
***unsolicited estimations of a release date provided for entertainment purposes only.
I'd say that most crashes in ZBrush are likely graphics hardware or graphics driver related like most apps. After that, probably low memory condition or memory leaks.
Actually never had any crashes in z just had to learn an entirely new system. just wish they would make hotkeys for previous brushes!
First they say "Sometime in August", since august end, they changed the date to "This coming week", now the week is done and still no ZB. They never told us any reasons for the delays.
I wonder what's wrong with the current stage of GoZ, that it can't come with 3.5 yet...
SHUT UP....SHUT UP....SHUT UPPPPPPPPPPPP ...all of you..this thread is pathetic...you cant miss what youve never had so go and do something creative for a while...get on with your lives abd be pleasantly surprised when stuff happens.
Sheeeesh.
While im on...does anyone know anything about a proposed update due?