lightscape to be retired

stephen gilbert · December 16th, 2002

from the autodesk lightscape forum:

Hello all,

Last week Autodesk announced that Lightscape will be discontinued as of January 31, 2003 and will no longer be available for sale after this date. Autodesk will continue to support the product until July 31, 2003 and the Lightscape support website will remain active at least through this date. Jeff Mottle, Lightscape user extraordinaire and the tireless unofficial moderator of this forum, has generously offered to take over the hosting of this forum on his website CGarchitect.com. We’ll provide more details about this migration shortly but it should occur shortly after January 31.

We’d like to take this opportunity to personally thank all you dedicated users who have supported Lightscape over the years. Believe it or not, it’s been 11 years now since we put out that first SGI release – (10 bonus points if anyone on this forum recalls the color of the box). While it certainly will be sad for us to see the Lightscape name retired, we are encouraged by the fact that the ideas and technology that we started in Lightscape continue to be developed and supported by Autodesk/Discreet in their flagship visualization products – 3ds max and Autodesk VIZ. Through these popular products, our team will continue to advance the state of the art in design visualization.

Again, thanks for your continued support.

Best Regards,

Stuart Feldman
Autodesk VIZ Product Manager
Lightscape Cofounder

Rod Recker
Autodesk VIZ Development Manager
Lightscape Cofounder

Filippo Tampieri
Senior Architect Advanced Imaging
Lightscape Cofounder

Ernest Burden · December 17th, 2002

Quote:

Last week Autodesk announced that Lightscape will be discontinued...

You're KIDDING? NO! REALLY? I'm SHOCKED, simply shocked, who could have predicted this?

Why did they bother?

stephen gilbert · December 17th, 2002

yeh...i feel gutted and i don't even own it....yet...i'm desparately trying to find a good deal on lightscape now that it's going to end as i don't want to miss out on what i see as a "milestone in rendering" closing it's doors on users..so far all i get is the rrp which is extreemly irritating seeing as it's about to bite the big one.

steve g

DelfoZ · December 17th, 2002

too much people buy autocad and lightscape = 4000 dlls aprox,

now they have to buy autocad and Viz4 or max 5 = 7500 dlls ?

Nice strategy .. not for us .... I think..

nuno · December 17th, 2002

hi stephen,

i REALLY hope you guys 'can' make (or... 'they' let you make) a package that can equal the results LightScape does.
for me, it is a shame LightScape dies like this.
i used to like autodesk when they are small....(when they made autocad).
...and maybe revit goes in the same way, right?

best luck to all of you (LS creators),

nuno

RuiRibeiro · December 17th, 2002

Hello steve g,

it´s a shame to see the end of a software such as Lightscape

.
It´s a wild market out there, right?

I really hope you guys can achieve your purposes.

LS user,
Rui.

stephen gilbert · December 17th, 2002

hi
just to correct any misunderstanding.
the article above i posted was cut n pasted from the lightscape forum on discreet's forum area...i myself am not any part of the dev team on lightscape or work for autodesk/discreet...i'm just sharing the information so that people become aware that lightscape will be pulled from the product list at the end of january..

so anyone out there wanting lightscape better get a move on and buy it before you don't have the chance to anymore.

steve g

www.cresshead.com

RuiRibeiro · December 17th, 2002

Hello again steve,

ok, copy that. Maybe it was me dreaming with an hypothetical re-appearance of LS.

Rui.

bigcahunak · December 18th, 2002

GOD bless her LSoul...

mzagorski · December 18th, 2002

sad... very sad. LS was one of the few products that I thought still had some possibilities for it... An awesome product.. but as usual, swalloed up and spat out by the big boys.

So now Discreet dont make a renderer!... Bad show...

I sure as hell hope they never buy Brazil R/S.

They should make LS a free download after Jan 31st.. just like GMAX. Should be easy enough!...

Mike

[ December 19, 2002, 04:40 AM: Message edited by: mzagorski ]

December 16th, 2002	#1 (permalink)
stephen gilbert Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: leicester leicestershire United Kingdom Posts: 55 Name: steve gilbert	from the autodesk lightscape forum: Hello all, Last week Autodesk announced that Lightscape will be discontinued as of January 31, 2003 and will no longer be available for sale after this date. Autodesk will continue to support the product until July 31, 2003 and the Lightscape support website will remain active at least through this date. Jeff Mottle, Lightscape user extraordinaire and the tireless unofficial moderator of this forum, has generously offered to take over the hosting of this forum on his website CGarchitect.com. We’ll provide more details about this migration shortly but it should occur shortly after January 31. We’d like to take this opportunity to personally thank all you dedicated users who have supported Lightscape over the years. Believe it or not, it’s been 11 years now since we put out that first SGI release – (10 bonus points if anyone on this forum recalls the color of the box). While it certainly will be sad for us to see the Lightscape name retired, we are encouraged by the fact that the ideas and technology that we started in Lightscape continue to be developed and supported by Autodesk/Discreet in their flagship visualization products – 3ds max and Autodesk VIZ. Through these popular products, our team will continue to advance the state of the art in design visualization. Again, thanks for your continued support. Best Regards, Stuart Feldman Autodesk VIZ Product Manager Lightscape Cofounder Rod Recker Autodesk VIZ Development Manager Lightscape Cofounder Filippo Tampieri Senior Architect Advanced Imaging Lightscape Cofounder __________________ steve g 3d introduction video tutorials hosted here for max, lw and xsi www.cresshead.com e n d o f l i n e

December 17th, 2002	#3 (permalink)
stephen gilbert Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: leicester leicestershire United Kingdom Posts: 55 Name: steve gilbert	yeh...i feel gutted and i don't even own it....yet...i'm desparately trying to find a good deal on lightscape now that it's going to end as i don't want to miss out on what i see as a "milestone in rendering" closing it's doors on users..so far all i get is the rrp which is extreemly irritating seeing as it's about to bite the big one. steve g __________________ steve g 3d introduction video tutorials hosted here for max, lw and xsi www.cresshead.com e n d o f l i n e

December 17th, 2002	#4 (permalink)
DelfoZ Veteran Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Chihuahua,Mexico Age: 31 Posts: 507 Name: Enrique Portillo	too much people buy autocad and lightscape = 4000 dlls aprox, now they have to buy autocad and Viz4 or max 5 = 7500 dlls ? Nice strategy .. not for us .... I think.. __________________ DelfoZ \| DS Citta Nouva http://delfoz.blogspot.com/

December 17th, 2002	#5 (permalink)
nuno Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: portugal Age: 34 Posts: 350 Name: nuno faria	hi stephen, i REALLY hope you guys 'can' make (or... 'they' let you make) a package that can equal the results LightScape does. for me, it is a shame LightScape dies like this. i used to like autodesk when they are small....(when they made autocad). ...and maybe revit goes in the same way, right? best luck to all of you (LS creators), nuno __________________ .Best Regards .Nuno

December 17th, 2002	#7 (permalink)
stephen gilbert Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: leicester leicestershire United Kingdom Posts: 55 Name: steve gilbert	hi just to correct any misunderstanding. the article above i posted was cut n pasted from the lightscape forum on discreet's forum area...i myself am not any part of the dev team on lightscape or work for autodesk/discreet...i'm just sharing the information so that people become aware that lightscape will be pulled from the product list at the end of january.. so anyone out there wanting lightscape better get a move on and buy it before you don't have the chance to anymore. steve g www.cresshead.com __________________ steve g 3d introduction video tutorials hosted here for max, lw and xsi www.cresshead.com e n d o f l i n e

December 17th, 2002	#6 (permalink)
RuiRibeiro Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Porto - Portugal Posts: 18 Name: Rui Ribeiro	Hello steve g, it´s a shame to see the end of a software such as Lightscape . It´s a wild market out there, right? I really hope you guys can achieve your purposes. LS user, Rui.

December 17th, 2002	#8 (permalink)
RuiRibeiro Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Porto - Portugal Posts: 18 Name: Rui Ribeiro	Hello again steve, ok, copy that. Maybe it was me dreaming with an hypothetical re-appearance of LS. Rui.

December 18th, 2002	#9 (permalink)
bigcahunak Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Israel Age: 36 Posts: 820 Name: Itzik Kelner	GOD bless her LSoul...

December 18th, 2002	#10 (permalink)
mzagorski Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Honolulu, Hawaii. USA. Posts: 290 Name: Mike Zagorski	sad... very sad. LS was one of the few products that I thought still had some possibilities for it... An awesome product.. but as usual, swalloed up and spat out by the big boys. So now Discreet dont make a renderer!... Bad show... I sure as hell hope they never buy Brazil R/S. They should make LS a free download after Jan 31st.. just like GMAX. Should be easy enough!... Mike [ December 19, 2002, 04:40 AM: Message edited by: mzagorski ] __________________ Mike Zagorski

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