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It's not.

Ah you made my ears perk up for a moment there but seems you have to be an Enterprise subscriber which is twice the Octane only subscription.

I mean you need to take a more realistic view of things. 1) Nothing is ever going to exceed everyone's expectations. The UI will never satisfy everyone, all bugs will never be fixed, Native Redshift will increase the price, Scenenodes can never be complete and never so quickly, Maxon is doing nothing further with Xpresso (at best just hope they don't remove it), and a whole ton of features on your personal wishlist aren't going to suddenly get added any quicker than the development pace or focus of the last five years would indicate, and so on. Ditching backward compatibility is also not something Maxon will do. 2) Modules are not coming back and equally distributing the price amongst them is not how things work.

This poll is premised upon so many absurd and ridiculous assumptions I really don't know what to think.

R20 is the greatest of all time and also the last version given to us by the original team that brought us C4D.

Maybe then it's time to start believing your own eyes and act accordingly.

I use R20 and it's extremely stable even with Octane Render, but I've used all the more recent versions including R25 and haven't encountered any serious issues.

You asked for opinions, I gave you mine. I also don't needlessly update other software either, and that helps too.

And I would say if gaming is a concern then get a machine for that, but don't blame chasing gaming drivers for a few extra fps for newfound instability in your professional 3D software. Regardless of reasons constantly chasing drivers is a recipe for disaster and I would submit that 90% of instability problems people complain about come from that.

I never update Why on earth did you update to such a recent driver? I am using Nvidia driver 27.21.14.6611 from April 12, 2021 and it works fine with Redshift and everything else and I'm not updating it ever unless it stops working. Chasing the latest drivers and system updates just makes you a beta tester for those companies, and is a complete waste of time and sanity.

That right there is your problem. Why are you constantly downloading and upgrading drivers? That should only happen every few years and only when absolutely required. Same goes for OS updates.

It's hard to imagine anything being developed by Maxon directly from here out that isn't underpinned by scene nodes.

Magic 8 Ball says: Outlook is not good.

Isn't the line cut tool the easiest way to add a point to a polygon?

I have zero issue with anyone making this argument. Unless you're on subscription and it doesn't matter to you, R25 is clearly not a worthy investment for anyone considering a permanent license, as it's basically just an unfinished work in progress as will be everything that will follow until the new node core is fully operational and up to speed, which quite frankly there is no guarantee that will ever even happen because Maxon must stay in business long enough to cross that finish line, and at the earliest won't be for several more years.

Sorry, I meant the command manager is where you can find them.

You can find them in the coordinate manager and dock them as needed. I've always had the axis commands docked above my coordinates manager since R7 or so, and never even knew that the commands could be found in the axis menu.

Good to see the hysteria over the GUI change is continuing unabated here. Nevermind that one can easily recall the old layout and only the icons will have changed somewhat, Maxon has clearly ruined everything that was once good on this earth for all time and for time immemorial. RIP happiness.

Disabled XGroup? I would have never thought to even look there. 😄

There are three possibilities. You have a node not shown that is undefined, the xptesso tag associated with this xpresso is dissactivated, or xpessions are tuned off globally (an option today's users seem unaware of even existing but which I use all the time).

As if someone, many, or everyone could suddenly start working harder and everything would be fine. Tell that to armies who lose wars. Everyone works hard. A company succeeds or doesn't based on a whole slew of factors that don't really come down to how hard people are working, such as leadership, vision, drive, planning, luck, resources, etc. Maxon has been a successful company for as long as I've known it, but continued success doesn't suddenly get guaranteed as long as everyone pledges to keep working hard. If only it were that easy.

The workflow you describe is not advisable. Instead of using keyframes to get the response you need on contact, you should use condition based xpessions that automatically force the required actions to occur when a condition of your choosing is met, instead of using keyframes.

imo B is the only valid reason to ever upgrade an OS. Anything else is just begging for needless headaches and a complete waste of time. Machines are built for the OS of their time, and should never be upgraded unless you need it so much that you would otherwise be forced to buy a new computer that you simply cannot afford. I also recommend never upgrading your graphics drivers, as long as they are working, for the same reason.

Not sure about markers, but keys, no. It's not possible, as it would create complete chaos when scrubbing and a ruined timeline and animation.

I recommend Macs to everyone I know who is completely computer illiterate and couldn't trouble shoot or Google a technical solution thier way out of a paper bag. Not judging because I know many such people who just have different mind sets or priorities, but I can't even fathom professionals who know their way around a 3D app needing such coddling and hand holding, and the exorbitant costs and reduced flexibility that comes with it.