Hi Charles, I don't really have a specific timeline all planned out.

But I do still want to add in a lot of new stuff for v3 so the final v3 release will probably be something like the beginning of next year or something in that vague range, it's not really imminent.

I am nearly ready to release the 2.5 Mac OSX specific version though, but that is different than the v3 release.


> I understand you may not be able to talk at all about development schedules, <...>

In my case it's more that I don't actually have a rigidly defined schedule all in place, I like to keep things fluid and sometimes jump on ideas as they bubble up if they are a particularly good fit.


> Thank you for developing this software, it truly looks amazing, and could be a big boost
> to my hard surface work.

You're welcome, I'm glad you like it! Yes, MoI can be a great companion to Modo particularly for mechanical / hard surface type objects since it is focused on a more construction + boolean type workflow.

See here for some links to discussions and some tips that may help people who are coming from a polygon modeling background:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4640.4

- Michael

Wow, thanks for the quick response Michael. You answered all of my questions - I will be purchasing shortly!

On a side note I'd like to say HI to PaQ, Frenchy and SonK!!! Nice to see some familiar faces.

Hi Charles, glad to see more modo users adding moi3d to their workflow! :D You should also get the trail version of the SubD-NURBS plugin for modo completing the SubD<--> NURBS pipeline IMO. Times are definitely tough, I wanted to buy it a few days ago, but i'm broke xD. I hope to see some of your moi work in the near future!

Hello to you :)

hey charles..

"The reason I ask is, I got burned on buying modo 501 a few months back only to have 601 released less than two weeks later."

..that simply cannot be true..they had at least 1 month covered via a free upgrade 501->601 period..something like 31th of january or so..

..and yes, moi is different.

cheers,
marco

MoI is worth waiting for. It can only get "more perfected". :-)

2nd that,,,, :-)

Peace,
Rich_Art. ;-)

Hi Marco,
I'm sure you're right - I just failed to do my research!

@SonK - I'll definitely look into that NURBS>SubD plugin for Modo. Thanks for the heads-up.

Hey Charles... Got your Modo upgrade for Christmas, huh!!!!

You know it Brotha!