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Originally Posted by shoeach  I’m always dreaming that Amapi8 is released by Thomas and his fellows. |
You are probably more likely to see Amapi 8 in Japan than the rest of us. I think the Amapi/Shade pairing has a lot of potential, but they both needed a friendlier user interface. The sneak peeks Thomas posted show that the interface issue was addressed in Amapi 8. Now if efrontier builds a solid bridge between A8 and shade, we could have a very good modelling/rendering solution.
Unfortunately, I have no idea of what efrontier's plans are. I doubt they would have spent all that $$$ on Eovia France to throw away the code later. So I believe the Amapi 8 technology will be used in a released product (A8 or Shade?), but I'm not sure it will be available outside of Japan.
Eric