I’ve asked Boris FX about a self-registering patch for us particleillusion 3 users

[Bob Moyer]

Thanks for the ‘heads-up’. I sincerely hope you are successful. I dread the day my pI stops working.

Bob

[Bob Moyer]

I am assuming that Boris FX has either not responded to your request or has decided to ignore its purchased user base. What a disgrace, what a shame, what a loss.

Bob

[Francois Blawat]

Hi Bob,

Actually, for whatever reason they think (thought) that Alan Lorence meant 2.0 or SE version. Not is Not the version Alan and I discussed in my email. So I corrected them and indicated 3.0 (3.4.1 or now 3.09).

After that, I have not received anything. I was bugging them to get all of the Free Emitters that used be on Wondertouch’s website. Talk about how fast did they get rid of that URL? ( It is already for Sale). Anyway, I had them correct some installers for pi3 (OFX) but they still have not posted the Emitters that everyone who has this program should be able to download again.

The strange thing is, if you google search for borisfx particleillusion, you will find this website: https://borisfx.com/products/particle-illusion/ BUT they have listed this program as Legacy under their downloads page.

So for now, BorisFX has not gotten back to me regarding releasing a Patch so all of us valid users can self-register for when the day comes that BorisFX decides not to allow any registration from their servers.

In reality, they should release a self-validator or self-installer (whatever you want to call it) for all versions of particleillusion that was released.

I hope that BorisFX does the right thing. GenArts in my opinion dropped the ball with particleillusion and did not promote it enough. Heck, after the last Emitter Alan release (he notified users on Creative Cow forum Mar 2, 2015 ) and I told GenArts to add that lastest update to the Emitters page of Wondertouch (when it was still around 6-4-2015) and they indicated they could not devote man hours to edit a website. ?? Really. So a web editor could not take 5 min to add a link and url for Alan’s last Emitter: https://www.wondertouch.com/downloads/new_libs/emitters_Q3_Q4_2014_il3.zip

All around sad in my opinion.

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FixitMad

[Brian Fox]

It will be nice to have some good news to talk about on this forum soon…..

Brian

[Bob Moyer]

I was always a big fan of the ‘Phoenix’ myth. Hope you are serious….

Bob

PS. It’s been 3 days…how much longer before your announcement???????

[Brian Fox]

https://borisfx.com/press-releases/boris-fx-announces-new-particle-illusion-and-app-manager-previews-new-2018-product-lineup-at-nab-2018/

[Bob Moyer]

Sounds promising. Where can we see an actual demo? What are the OS/hardware requirements? What is the cost?
Do previous owners get any breaks on the cost? When will it be available?

Thanks for the post.
Bob

[Alan Lorence]

All good questions Bob, but there are no answers yet — except to say that there will be a tech demo in the Boris FX booth at NAB in April.

I hope to keep everybody here updated as things progress and we have more details.

Alan.

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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
BorisFX

[Ron Lindeboom]

I was Boris’s very first retailer back in 1995 when it was on diskettes and hand-copied manuals. I have known him for a little while, now. 🙂

Boris has always been more than generous and more than fair. Particle Illusion is in good hands and I couldn’t be happier about its future.

Whatever Boris decides, while I doubt it will make every last person happy, I am sure that the vast preponderance of users will be happy with where the product goes and how it gets there.

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.