I’m hoping and wishing for an easy way to go back and forth with XSI 7. in the 3.5 version. I hope that it’s not going to be more difficult because, Autodesk owns it now .
It would be so cool if the software companies could all play nice with each other. you all make great things happen for artists what a great day and age and can you imagine if they where all combined, WHEW!!!CRAZY!!!:eek:
But I guess theres gota be competition, huh? That’s what fuels the great ideas.
Sorry, just went on a mind trip. I’m back now;)
Anyway, I hope you guys can make some ways to add to the pipeline easier.
Thanks for a great product!! and thank you again for offering a free upgrade to registered users that alone is worth the wait . I’m sure it will be amazing, Have a great day!
I’m kinda surprised a month after is was supposed to be released we still haven’t heard a peep.
If I had one “wish” it would be to be able to easily use an object which has overlapping uv maps on several templates.
Many poser products use multiple uv maps so they can put higher res textures on surfaces that need more detail, and lower res textures on smaller items, or things that don’t need as much detailing.
And how this truism fits into “delay without any info from Pixologic” situation? Is like … damn, I have a feeling that I am dealing here with a people that never asks a simple questions. Like a lambs or something.
And I still cannot get why Pixologic is silent. Cant they be little bit more informative, for craps sake? They started all that hype with 3.5 anyways LOL.
It think it’s relatively obvious that they don’t think it’s a big enough problem to solve any time soon, nor to give any hint to the clients, which they feel (based on earlier posts) should count themselves lucky to have anything at all on the Mac platform.
I’m almost completely switched off the Mac platform (after 17 years). To fight Pixologic (and other ISVs) on this is a waster of effort.
If you want to be outraged, be outraged at Apple, not pixo. Simply put, they are incompetent. They’ve made it nearly impossible to keep old codebases due to sweeping (and pointless) API changes and I’m not surprised that with a complicated software package like zbrush they are having issues porting.
If you are waiting for 3.5 to fix your ills then I would not hold my breath. Even when it gets here it’s doubtful that it will ever be quite as stable as the windows version.
If you’re pissed off about slower mac support and version lag, well, that’s what you get for buying a mac. If you’re pissed off about release date slips, that’s like being angry at the wind or the sun. It’s a fact of life.
No one forced you to use zbrush or to use a mac. The versions for mac products will always lag, and due to Apple being retarded lately they are probably going to continue to be very buggy as well but that’s not pixo’s fault.
C’mon guys, for me its clear about. Pixologic play to the market game. Mudbox release really do a lot of noise, Autodesk tasked about it.
So, the better Pixologic could do was release the promise of a new Zbrush 3.5 free update. Only was a master effect hit. Well, with time I hope a Zbrush more flexible.
I totally understand and sympathise with any person who is ticked off with pixo and it is just amazing what this company does insofar “CUSTOMER RELATION” Never experienced anything like it.
As far as the MAC people are concerned and that Apple is its own worst enemy by changing base API codes I can only say - I USE A HIGH END PC and I HAVE NO MAJOR PROBLEMS. That should tell you guys something.
I was invited to try a new dual processor (8 core) Mac the other day and I was plainly unimpressed. OK its a quick machine but not quick enough to justify the cost etc. Also I must say that I find the Mac gfx cards a bit weird too. Screen response made my head jerk a bit and I was told that this was a really great video system - hmmm? Maybe there are better Macs out there but who cares - not me anyway.
So in conclusion all I can say is that all so called messiahs are relatively doomed for a big fall. Get with the strength and buy yourself a good PC and get back to work. The next version of ZB will not be here for a long time yet and really again who cares - this version works (PC at least) and we can produce. Personally I will not spend one more second even thinking about pixo and I am also using LBrush and Mudbox to add to the arsenal.
So all of you guys take a deep breath and accept that pixo is what they are - a very second rate organisation with a potentially great product.
As much as I like to whine about Pixologics “say nothing about whats happening” policy I need to strongly disagree with “potentially great product”. Zbrush proved me MILION times to be STATE-OF-THE-ART software. Mudbox is going into good direction but will need at least one, two versions more to get where ZB is now. And hopefully Pixologic will do its magic and move ZB even further.
About Mac I agree 150% .
Mac owners seams to be masochists of sort. I was checking lately prices on Apple website - they are charging for upgrade from 2GB RAM to 4GB … $500! LOL Not only that - they are giving you 4x1GB to make sure your slots on motherboard will not allow you to easy further upgarde. I can get that memory for 55 bucks (and in 2GB module)… Just an example of how naive one need to be to throw his money into Apples pocket…
To me it looks like that people need reasons to get angry with something. So, here’s a reason, Pixologic is not delivering the program at time. But if it were delivered in time and buggy, they would complain about how Pixologic is a incompetent company that cannot deliver a product bug free. Sorry my English, my grammar is the worst on the planet.
I don’t ask anybody to calm down, but I respectfully ask anybody that stop the pointless complaining. I’m pretty sure that Pixologic is working hard to deliver a good, and almost bugfree product to us. I’m sure that the pressure you try to give them, doesn’t help too much, since you don’t have any effect on them.
I don’t think that there are issues that cannot be solved at this moment, or you can’t live with, so as one of our educaded fellow said, go back and sculpt. And find a punchboy to release your anger…
By the way, I do wait for the next release as much as other, but since I love to work with ZBrush, I try to solve my problems as much as I can.
Hey there man - please explain what your comment “TROLL MUCH” means?
I suspect it was not flattering but if you could be more precise I could maybe learn something from one that is so enlightened.
Thanx in advance.
That’s why a smart Apple user, like me, buys from a reseller that puts cheap ram in my Mac, for a steal price compared to Apple store. Really, lets be serious for a moment; the Mac OSX system is build like a solid rock house, not ever in the many years I’ve worked with Apple I’ve ever had any virus or any other serious problem, never, it works, no weird errors, incompatible nightmares, virus & spyware filter sh*t programs that makes the system run like horror, the Mac runs like a dream and never let me down. And if ZBrush is not working 100% on it, it’s a shame, and we have to wait till it gets better… There’re tons of developers that sell programs that works perfect on both, PC and Mac platform. So, now it’s Apple’s fault? I’m not so naive to throw my hard earned money in the pocket of Microsoft to get yesterdays technology, just because ZBrush is not working how it should. It’s up to Pixologic to get it done, it was their choice to bring ZBrush to the Apple platform, and since they ask serious money for it, it’s up to them to take good care of it.
(Just an opinion…)
Why not buy a cheap Intel system for 2000€ you got a real powerful
workstation … then install Mac os voilá … a power PC :lol:
ok back to topic:
I think Pixologic will do a great 3.5 update … look at all that wonderful
plugins we got for free … this is a fantastic support strategy and i am shure that 3.5 will got some big surprises for us
I hope at least the current issues and early stages of the topo tools are enhanced more than extra features. Redifine, redifiine, redifine whats there, then add more features.
Danny R - yeah yeah - urban legends about CONSTANT blue screen of DEATH, viruses eating your a$$ down, anti-viruses that slows down your system that runs like Commodore64… I heard that all over the years yet somehow I didn’t experienced it AT ALL. Now I am on Vista and guess what - most of that all BS how bad is that system is not true. Unless I got some special version straight from Bill himself LOL.
On the other side - when I was working on Mac - couple years ago - that was real PIA. I experienced quite opposite to what you are saying, with most ridiculous thing happening DAILY - Photoshop use closing without any reason, randomly just PUFF! Bye bye - hopefully you saved. No? Well - welcome to better MAc world! But don’t worry! Enjoy our all animated, cheesy system!
I use two nice pc’s and two nice mac pros. They’re all similarly equipped in hardware and software. They’re all great computers. I like the Leopard OS better than XP (haven’t tried Vista), and the overall design of the Mac inside and out, but in the end, they’re just computers people. Why be a computer groupie? :td:
Apple definitely has the style. PC definitely has more options in software, hardware, and types of computers (tablet, mini, etc), plus they’re more economic and open sourced. I enjoy working on the Macs more because the OS has that polished feel to it, but neither one is really all that different.
If anyone is complaining about slowdowns and crashes on either platform, it’s definitely just an issue with that particular system. Both platforms are insanely powerful and stable when set up correctly.
Hey guys I’ve been lurking on the forums lately, mainly because somehow my original login will not work and pixo will not/can’t(?) send me an email concerning my original login (jaystein) which got off to a slam-bang start.
Anyways back on topic, The comment made above about ZBrush not working %100 on a Mac is moot because it doesn’t work %100 on the Windows platform either!
I understand the frustration about the lack of displacement/normal map export for the Mac. I for one use ZBrush on Vista 64 and when I use ZB I feel like I’m walking on egg shells, with the amount of crashes that I experience it’s a wonder that I get anything done at all, (save early and often) and I’ve been using ZB 3.x for two years now. I was kind of upset that Pixo didn’t release 3.1.2 for both platforms but I quickly realized that I wouldn’t have loaded it anyway, considering the Beta type nature of that release, in other words I’m spending so much time learning the program that it wouldn’t have made sense to have to learn everything again.
My true hopes for 3.5 are stability fixes and hopefully some improvements to the re-topo tools. They are truly awesome now but with a little polish they would be dynamite.
Aside from real transparency and 3d space, I hope that Pixo doesn’t go overboard with new features, although they are nice. As someone said, “a new version won’t make one a better artist”, practice, of course, will.
So instead of all the impatience and anger let’s realize that Pixo, while incredibly advanced, is a small company and we as users need to be sensitive to that and let the Wizards weave their spells.
Miztli, you make the mistake of wording your own experience as a universal fact.
So you had a bad experience with Macs… That does not mean this is the defacto standard the world around. And get this, nor is your good experience with Vista applicable to everyone else.
You sound very bitter and somehow feel justified to belittle fellow Zbrush users who made an educated choice to use a system different from your personal preference. Why do you (and other Mac bashers) feel compelled to do so? Trust me when I say that your ramblings have little to no merit and certainly won’t convince people to switch to alternate OS’es all of the sudden. Isn’t this thread in the first place about ZBrush 3.5 and why Pixologic hasn’t made any further announcements? So please restrain yourself from posting silly remarks like the one quoted below and talk about ZB3.5 instead.
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