Comments on: Vintage Softimage – A tribute to Phoenix Tools and Arete

By: Rich Lee

Rich Lee — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:44:22 +0000

It brings a tear thats for sure. I remember watching their demos and “dreaming” of being able to use the software…everything felt so…i dunno…cutting edge and amazing back then.

Now if only softimage 2011 had a nice ocean plugin in like some of the other packages…

By: Oscar Gonzalez

Oscar Gonzalez — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:30:15 +0000

Yeah !This is just great.

I did use those soo often back in the days, and thanks to the phoenix tools i managed to keep on being a Softimage user as opposed on jumping onto Maya like everybody else…

Now Halfdan should repack the Pison tools, very specific but lifetaving tools!

Thanks!

By: ThE_JacO

ThE_JacO — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:47:44 +0000

Oh man, seems like a different era.
When Italy still had a CG scene (and it almost looked like we would have pulled it off in film vfx), and Milan was a Softimage bastion.

Nice work, as usual, Stefano.

By: mdonovan

mdonovan — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:06:22 +0000

I always thought Aretes ‘Renderworld’ renderer did a way better job rendering their water solution than Mental Ray back then. Good memories.

By: 247wkman

247wkman — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:33:05 +0000

after deleting all my torrented softs long ago i realised wish i held on to them- it never occured to me that old softs could gain a nolstalgic value so a ditched the lot (‘ALIAS MAYA’, ‘AVID’ XSI and 3DS MAX- before it tried to be maya and got all ugly with the kde and of course the plugins-max needed lots of those) when i went open source for my wallits sake- they’re in a land fill somewhere they’re yours if you find them!

By: Gassan

Gassan — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:44:07 +0000

Thanks , but it make softimage crash evry much , and it cant render more than 5 frames.

By: oz42

oz42 — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:16:40 +0000

wow, I remember these from way back. Phoenix Tools were great. Their particles in Soft3D were much better than Softimages. Thanks Stefano.

By: crystal_virgin

crystal_virgin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:01:12 +0000

Awesome! But what about “ERROR : PHEN 0.4 error 051011: shader “PT_Psunami_Ocean_Normals” not found?” while rendering?

Softimage 2011 32bit

By: Laurence Dodd

Laurence Dodd — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:27:48 +0000

Ahhh, happy days (could be the rose tinted spectacles talking). I remember a great timewarp that overlayed the fcurves, that worked so well.
Great stuff, Cheers

By: Bullit

Bullit — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:16:06 +0000

I think i played with Arete in Maya.