Re: FLASH: studio max vs. strata 3d studio (now shockwave3d)

[Wayne Townsend]

>It may be too late now, as it appears the mothership is finally(!) making a

>move in this area:

>

>"Intel is teaming with Macromedia to deliver 3-D technologies to the

>Internet. Intel's dynamic 3-D rendering engine will soon be included in

>Macromedia's Shockwave Player, so you'll be able to view real-world 3-D on

>the Web with a bandwidth-friendly solution."


Please don't buy into that hype PR hogwash Michael.  It is vaporware 

and that's all.

"Is teaming with."  "Will do".   Sure.  Same old MS/Intel tricks of 

announcing way before anything is available - along with all the big 

promises designed to steer the devlopers away from a real product.


Remember when MS set out to destroy Flash with their Chroma?  That 

failed miserably too even though it was backed by all that  MS money. 

Flash was simply far better, and won.


They have a long, long way to go to even resemble Pulse3D, which is 

out and running now, and also supported by real content creators like 

Warner, etc.


>While Pulse's player is very nice, their licensing is completly 

>unaceptable, IMO.


Not to real players it isn't.  The truth is that the Pulse license is 

a small fraction of any major website design budget.  None of my 

clients has even batted an eye.  And their content creator is free 

for the developers.  I like that idea a lot better.


A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.  Anybody can talk, but 

Pulse delivered.


ATB,


/wayne


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