waves up the thread to Sharen
Hiya Sharen, have a happy new year!

Is this going to be a pool? I'm betting somewhere between $299 and $349 for upgrade from P7.

Not being one in the know about such things, I have to wonder - do they have to pay money for the rights to create a plugin that imports a scene into, say, 3ds max?. Unless the nature of it is just COLLADA or fbx, but when they say scene input I assume they mean that includes cameras, lights, rigging and some sort of shader node translation.

I guess that would be in the SDK for the programs, but I don't know how inclusive that SDK is for the ones they're going with at first. I believe I read that LightWave's SDK didn't make it easy, and that's why it was scratched off the list. Don't know if that's a physical limitation of the SDK or because it wasn't freely available though.

But it should be taken into consideration it's no small thing they're promising - it can't be cheap for them, and I'd imagine they're under pressure to not repeat the first "Pro Pack" ...ummm...situation.