Just speaking from my own experience though, Adesk hasn’t asked me for anything in H&F since about 2014, and actively fought me on any upgrades I wanted to do on it for several years prior. This was a very lucky break for me and I would want to make sure they were OK with it.

It’s all going to be open source, so basically anyone (including me theoretically) could port it to any app as long as it doesn’t directly compete with them and is compliant with their usage rules (which are ridiculously generous).īut (me personally) I don’t think I would do anything without getting their permission. Which brings back the question of how well this could potentially integrate with 3d apps, its an opportunity to ask you as a long time Max user if you will still be able to support the software with potential updates regarding hair and fur for whatever epic chooses to do? Or I suppose it would be an entirely new plugin. But that certainly makes things a bit clearer. I certainly can’t imagine this for games for the near future, but perhaps Epic’s looking for a way to enhance their FX pipeline. I suppose it is the unreleased real time hair pipeline you are speaking of that epic was interested in.

(note, my daughter uses this login a lot for fortnite, so be nice )

Losing a little ground to other products while we work on it and try get it right is not the same as sitting on our hands… I’d like to think beyond the patent we have other charms as well … We haven’t sat still, we just haven’t released anything based on the new architecture yet. The 2004 patent was certainly an important factor, but I feel like I should point out that we’ve been demonstrating a purely GPU (opencl) based realtime advanced generator pipeline which has been experimental for years which are the basis of shave10 (along with some new features and methods).

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