Particle fx has a sliding scale price for other platforms, I hope the same is true for iClone. If it is something like $200 I'll frankly be pissed.

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I was voicing opinion for a lower cost on the Faceware plugin, and was very pleased upon the release.
But this time, ah...what the heck...I'll go high!

Come on RL - $500...minimum...
MINIMUM price.

This is a pro-tool through and through...just like: 

FumeFX (3DS Max/Maya) - $845, and $1,045 bundled with AfterBurn
Turbulence FD (Cinema 4D/Lightwave) - $479
Rayfire - (3DS Max) - $385
PopcornFX (Editor) - FREE
PopcornFX Unity Plugin Personal (Non Commercial plugin) - 25 Euros
PopcornFX Unity Plugin Studio (Commercial Plugin) - 250 Euros
PopcornFX UE Plugin Personal (Non Commercial plugin) - 25 Euros
PopcornFX UE Plugin Studio (Commercial Plugin) - 250 Euros

Support is as follows:

I guess that would really depend on what the quality is.  From what I've seen, nothing in Popcorn warrants a high price.  3D particle systems elsewhere are both more fully featured as well as just better, and thus higher prices are appropriate.

But perhaps we'll see samples that will prove me wrong.

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I just hope we can get the reasonable non-commercial level price.

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Looks pretty cool... although it also looks as if you create the particle effect in Popcorn, and then open the file in iClone where you'll have access to some of the parameters.  I hope this is not the case - the tutorials I've watched on the Popcorn site require a PHD to follow - presumably because everything needs to be scripted in order to work in the "game" world.

I went and had a look at what the cost would be for the Unity and UE4 plugins.
They do a personal which is a lot cheaper but looks to be quite limited.
So below is the studio costs they are the same for both.

In UK money that is about £225.00

Duchess Designs Store 

How is it "Quite limited" exactly?

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This is the limitation of the personal license:

Personal License

Under this agreement PERSISTANT STUDIOS grants to THE LICENSEE the right to use the Software in the following conditions.
Solely:

• for non-commercial use
• for tests, educational, evaluation and internal use
• for use with or without software owned by or licensed to THE LICENSEE

If the project becomes a commercial one, you need to upgrade your license from personal to studio.
The Parties agree that THE LICENSEE can base scientific publications and demonstrations on its work using the Software; in this case, THE LICENSEE shall mention the use of the Software by inserting, in a manner at its discretion, the following notice: “Particle Effects powered by PopcornFX”.

For any other creation using the Software with non-commercial purpose, the Parties agree that THE LICENSEE shall mention the use of the Software by inserting in the opening sequence the Software logo (https://www.popcornfx.com/press/) and crediting the Software with the following notice “Particle effects powered by PopcornFX” in the ending sequence.

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Would be interesting with a PopcornFX iClone Early Access version to try.


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The personal license doesn't sound all that limiting to me (then again, I'm no longer making money from animations -- perhaps you kids have higher aspirations).

I'd be more concerned if the actual functionality of the software was limited -- again, PopcornFX doesn't look very good to me, and as others have pointed out, the interface to use is VERY difficult (quite unlike iClone) so any integration would need to be free for me to even be interested. 

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