Tag Archives: 2012

si-community 2012 year in review

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One last look back at 2012. This time for si-community.

Here’s a forum bubble chart that gives an at-a-glance overview (of the top 5 forums based on number of views). The size of the bubble indicates the number of views; the X-axis is the number of topics created in 2012, and the Y-axis is the number of replies.
si-community-bubble-chart

Most viewed topics overall

  1. mesh paint (21919)
  2. SI 2013 sightings (17507)
  3. PhysX Fluid Simulation in Softimage ICE (15696)
  4. SPOILER ALERT – general Softimage 2013 description (11960)
  5. Looks like Autodesk bought Naiad (10198)
  6. bring back softimage.net (9574)
  7. Vray for Softimage official release (9544)
  8. quickPrimitive (9427)
  9. SI Technology Previews (8452)
  10. any news about Softimage 2014 ??? (7950)
  11. exit Stephen Blair? (7872)

Most viewed News topics

  1. SI 2013 sightings (17507)
  2. SPOILER ALERT – general Softimage 2013 description (11960)
  3. Vray for Softimage official release (9544)
  4. SI Technology Previews (8452)
  5. exit Stephen Blair? (7872)
  6. No 2013 Advantage Pack (7774)
  7. Modo 601 Preview (5837)
  8. Luxology & the Foundry merge (3442)
  9. “Thiago’s Teamup and Mr. Jones” (2781)
  10. Maya nHair – how hard to repro? (2575)

Most viewed Announcements

  1. Motion Tools 1.0 (7682)
  2. SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2012 Frida September 28th 2012 (7049)
  3. new release: emPolygonizer4 version 4.0 (4780)
  4. ZBrush FiberMesh to strands compound (4687)
  5. ImplosiaFX 1.0 is available! (3200)
  6. Exocortex Species 1.0 now available!! (3156)
  7. xsibase “may harm your computer” [???] (2643)
  8. Fabric Engine v1.0 released (2493)
  9. Animation tools (2477)
  10. Essential Geo for Softimage (2136)

Most viewed Open Discussion topics

  1. Looks like Autodesk bought Naiad (10198)
  2. bring back softimage.net (9574)
  3. any news about Softimage 2014 ??? (7950)
  4. WTF??? Autodesk snubs Softimage in GDC schedule! (6314)
  5. the future? (was: the “frustration” thread) (5267)
  6. Windows 8 (3904)
  7. XSI Base down? (3629)
  8. Great work done with Softimage (3301)
  9. 2014 WISH LIST (3161)
  10. How rendering should be (3123)

Most active discussions (topics with the most replies)

  1. SI 2013 sightings (313)
  2. SPOILER ALERT – general Softimage 2013 description (281)
  3. WTF??? Autodesk snubs Softimage in GDC schedule! (145)
  4. SI Technology Previews (145)
  5. Looks like Autodesk bought Naiad (138)
  6. No 2013 Advantage Pack (133)
  7. bring back softimage.net (117)
  8. quickPrimitive (111)
  9. PhysX Fluid Simulation in Softimage ICE (111)
  10. Vray for Softimage official release (102)

Forums with the most topics

  1. ICE (211)
  2. OpenDiscussion (108)
  3. General Troubleshooting (89)
  4. Rendering (87)
  5. News (82)
  6. Programming (65)
  7. Announcements (65)
  8. Animation (61)
  9. Modeling (42)
  10. Materials & Shaders (37)

Forums with the most views

  1. News (147989)
  2. OpenDiscussion (121071)
  3. ICE (107861)
  4. Announcements (83549)
  5. Plugins (52735)
  6. Rendering (48569)
  7. ICE compounds (44523)
  8. General Troubleshooting (33671)
  9. Animation (27112)
  10. Programming (24807)

This data was obtained by visiting all the forum pages (such as all 9 pages of the News forum) and extracting the number of posts, posting date, number of replies, and topic title from the html.

2012 Softimage Year in Review

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Here’s some of the Softimage-related news and events that caused a buzz during the last year.

top2l October After months of malware warnings and the like, xsibase finally goes down…forever. RIP xsibase.
August Autodesk Lays Off 7% Of Entire Staff and a number of current and former Softimage people were gone. sevenpercent
2013sp1 June Softimage 2013 Service Pack 1 released
May
Autodesk announces 5% price increase, and changes to upgrade pricing that will take effect 1 Feb 2013 		Upgrade
image01 May Autodesk reshuffles Softimage development team. The original Montreal staff moves onto Maya VFX, and Softimage development is now headed up by a team in Singapore.
May Launch event for the Softimage Creatives user group, London chapter. SoftimageCreatives_TypeLogoSmall
autodesksubscription1 27 March Subscription prices change again. For Softimage Gold support, the price change was actually a modest decrease in price, from 900 to 890. BUT this is when many people found out that Softimage subscription prices went up significantly last year (in Europe only).
March Softimage 2013 released…and the crowd goes wild. AutodeskSoftimage2013_boxshot_204x300
V-Ray-Softimage-banner Feb V-Ray for Softimage released.

This isn’t an exhaustive list, obviously, as there plenty of other things that happened during 2012, such as Exocortex Species, SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2012, NYC ICE workshops, MotionTools, ProceduralTopoPack, baEssential shaders, emPolygonizer4 version 4.0, Fabric Engine, Fabric Creation Platform, emFlock2, emTools, Exocortex Alembic, Autodesk Softimage Masters nominations for Benjamin Bracamonte, Jeremie Passerin, and Todd Akita, and a Junior Masters nomination for Normand Archambault.