Alan Lorence
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It’s probably not a pI3 thing, but who knows. It doesn’t do this for me. What version of OS X are you running? Do you have any other apps or utilities running that might be intercepting those commands?
When you hit cmd+R, do you see the “Action” menu at the top of the screen highlight? (because cmd+R is the “rewind” function in that menu). If not, something is intercepting the keystroke combo.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
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We will be starting the Particle Illusion beta test in the next couple of days, so if you’re interested in giving it a look, please let me know ASAP!
Only the plugin version at this time, so you’ll need to be using Adobe, Avid, Vegas, Resolve.
You’ll actually be testing the entire Continuum package so it’s much more than just PI.
Alan.
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Sorry, thought you could see that. It’s alan at borisfx dot com.
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Hi Elvis!
Like Peter said in the video, that was only a 20% completed PI — so we did not want to post too much about it.
Much more coming soon!
Alan.
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Ken — I have a drawer full of those! 🙂
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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.
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Just to add on top of what Brian has written…
(I don’t visit the forums very much anymore as I’m in a completely different industry now, but I’ll try to check in more regularly. Brian may also give me a heads up if there’s something I can contribute…)
I know a lot of people really love pI3 (the standalone application) because of its speed, power, simplicity and depth. Being a standalone application though meant that the particle engine — the fun stuff — was just a third or less of the code. The rest was UI, file handling, memory management, etc. Remember how the movie handling in pI3 for Windows got slower when we released an update (version 3.10 maybe…)? That was when we had to switch movie handling code because Microsoft updated libraries. There were some UI features that changed or went away for the same reason — the OS libraries changed and we had to adapt.There have been so many changes like that over the last 10 years that somebody would probably have to work for a few weeks just to get the code building in modern development environments — that’s with no functional changes. In modern software development, that’s quite a bit of effort (and therefore money). I’m not saying it can’t be done, but it’s not trivial. That’s why we started to focus more on the plugin versions of pI (pIAE and pIOFX), even though those had their own challenges.
The fact that pI was 2D is another problem. Not having 3D capabilities was a limiting factor for many even when pI was new — now though it is a deal breaker for most customers. Can it be converted to 3D? Probably. Sort of. Does it make sense to though? I don’t know, and that’s the problem. It’s never been clear to me as lead programmer, then as project manager, now as uninvolved third party that it would ever be worth the effort.
All that being said, I wouldn’t give up hope on seeing pI move forward, evolve, or something else. I’m not saying it will happen, I’m just saying not to give up hope.
Alan.
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support@genarts.com is the correct address. They’ll take care of you.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
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Pretty sure you’re not going to get satisfactory results using particleIlluison for this effect.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
http://www.wondertouch.com