Hey! No there hasn't really been any milestones or luck. To be honest I've been mostly very busy and stressed with work / rent stuff lately. And most of the time after working all day I'm kind of fatigued with coding so I generally do non-coding related things. So there hasn't been much time + energ...

woodengun: Thank you so much for your input! Starting simple is definitely what I have to do. In fact I personally believe that the best workflow is to have multiple small dedicated programs for each given task. That way you get a less cluttered environment. And then, to eliminate the drudgework of ...

One thing I wanted to add to the mix is that to me Softimage ... etc Yeah I think that's a good point. A lot of tools out there overlap in terms of what they can do. But it's the ones that are well designed that let you be really productive :) Draise: Thanks for your excellent description of featur...

Wait a sec... BSD isn't open source (maybe you're refering to freeBSD?) BSD (at least in their community) is well understood as referring to the different open source ones, as they are the only ones that are still active. Such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD. About the distros you are ign...

Healthy competition is extremely valuable in the open source world as well. You definitely do need it. Take for instance btrfs vs ZFS. BSDs vs Linux. The BSDs versus each other, the linux distributions vs each other. X11 vs Mir vs Wayland. There is lots of instances where some healthy competition ha...

Thank you for elaborating mc_axe! I think you actually managed to open my eyes to a few things that I didn't realize at first with the gray UI! It is actually pretty good at eliminating distractions. I find blender to be similar in that way but soft has a slightly different approach that might be a ...

Hello mc_axe, thank you for the response! If you want to learn I'd be happy to point you in the right direction on where to learn C++ etc and answer your questions best I can :D But yes I definitely think it would be good with contributions eventually, probably not in the beginning though as there i...

Hello caledonian_tartan! Thank you for your reply and welcoming attitude :) having unimaginable funds they don't dare to start with this. it's still like a worm trying to build a car. Indeed! However I do not believe that this is because they couldn't afford the time investment, I think for them it'...

Hello! I am new on this forum and also new to Softimage! :D I am well aware that AD murdered Softimage and that made me really sad, even though I wasn't a user. However, I have heard good things about Softimage, even from people that don't really use it but have used it at some point and found it re...