twillis opened this issue on Feb 12, 2003 ยท 2 posts
twillis posted Wed, 12 February 2003 at 8:12 AM
Attached Link: http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Saw this in the modelling forum. Quote from link: "SOFTIMAGE ANNOUNCES FREE VERSION OF SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.3.0. Highly anticipated SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP now available for immediate download. "
JayPeG posted Wed, 12 February 2003 at 12:27 PM
Looks like they want to compete with Maya PLE (Personal Learning Edition). Much like Maya PLE the Softimage|XSI EXP is intended for non-commercial use only and output has been restricted with the use of watermarks on rendered images. The edge in this competetion that Maya has over Soft is that Maya is available on both Win and Mac OSX and Soft, only on Win.