Not to mention, a whole lot else.

Nice and expensive too!

I get so tired of tweaking the timeline I gotta do something else, even when it produces "nada".

A new software isn't in my plans, hopefully the iclone 6 will satisfy me for another year or so.

I have really enjoyed the Arteria3D of late. Steve has a bag full of tricks. I have been thinking I might take that course he is offering. Heck, it wouldn't hurt me to learn how to make a medieval castle or two. Knowing of course that it will take years to learn it well enough to prevent buying one of his "extremely" nice and inexpensive castles.

Yes I saw it , I posted it in the tread about PBR textures

The best EZ UI of the wolrd: Lumion 5
The worst market price of the world : Lumion 5 : 4316 $ !!!!!!!! it's a joke!!!!!
But it's realtime....
I hope Iclone 6 will have the same realtime render engine..

Lumion is a very closed world in my opinion but the realtime volumetric lights are amazing !!!

It does seem absurd to us that the price is so high, but it's target market is architectural visualization which tends to be expensive no matter what. Just goes with the field, I guess.

I do remember Mach Studio Pro being in this price range as well, and for one reason or another, was abandoned and made free.

It also was a proprietary format, which made the free version next to useless.

For me it is a joke and little arrogant to sell this toy at this price because some weeks ago they
made a kids user contest...!!!???? Which kids can buy this tools?...... Only children of architects....
I think today with the competition market they missed something big happen. But they're Europeen and they're are little out of marketing I know it because I lived in europe for 35 years and that's why I went to north america

Just noticed Arteria 3D has a big discount sale going on right now. Music packs for $1.99 instead of $25.
Ken

Lumion 5 --- Yes, it certainly does some impressive stuff.

We've also seen some cool stuff from a "pre-vis" package that focuses on movie sets, cameras, and equipment (dollies, cranes, mic booms, lights, etc.).  Sorry I can't recall the name right now.  I was envious of it's "walk/jog/run" controls, and lack of foot sliding.  But it fell far short of iClone in many other ways.

You always have to be careful of patents, but this is why market research (by Reallusion) is always important.  Pick the best features you find (in addition to the ones you invent), and try to seemlessly incorporate them into your product.  Always remember, your competitors hire smart people too.

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iClone 7... Character Creator... Substance Designer/Painter... Blender... Audacity...
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very impressive

Thank Rampa

CGTRADER

Nobody's perfect.

In the crowd scenes, people happily walk right through each other.

It's still impressive, but if you're making a movie and you add "extras" to your scene, you sure don't want people walking through each other in the foreground, especially if they stroll through your main character.

I wonder how much manual work would be required to fix that, even if you don't fix every person in the scene?  Can you pick one avatar, and assign it to a path?

Also, the people walking on the bridge in the oil painting lean way back.  I think they're perpendicular to the  arched bridge, not vertical with the world.  (Or it's a fisheye lense distortion.)

Don't get me wong; it's still very impressive.  But it's not perfect.

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iClone 7... Character Creator... Substance Designer/Painter... Blender... Audacity...
Desktop (homebuilt) - Windows 10, Ryzen 9 3900x CPU, GTX 1080 GPU (8GB), 32GB RAM, Asus X570 Pro motherboard, 2TB SSD, terabytes of disk space, dual  monitors.
Laptop - Windows 10, MSI GS63VR STEALTH-252, 16GB RAM, GTX 1060 (6GB), 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD

Yes, Marc, but they're Dutch. The Dutch know about marketing... I know because I lived there for 43 years, although I now also live in the US. I have no marketing skills, though...

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