What's Up With combustion On Macs?

Go to Ebay. There is a package for sale there. Make sure you can get an authorizations code though before you purchase.

I believe that I had heard it would be available for Mac "in May". Still waiting here too man...

You can buy c3 from the discreet site still (I just checked it looking for a Mac release date... nothing) and it has a message saying that you get the c4 upgrade free of course if you buy now.

Good luck!

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

Thanks for everyone's response. Well, I'm certainly not the buyer at my company [G]. I'm dealing with Macs, period. My problem is getting my hands on a physical copy of the Mac software. There's no Mac version available at the Autodesk site even for download, other than a "marked" trial version. I can't believe I can't find a damnned copy of this in New York City!

I just checked the discreet site again, and I see a downloadable Mac version of c3 at this address:

http://estore.discreet.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?V1=604550&PN=1&SP=10023&xi...

Let me know if it doesn't work for some reason. (Just curious, not that I could really help) =)

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

May is here but I have not seen a release date for Combustion 4 on the Mac platform. What gives?

you know macs and pcs network ok, right? add a dual xeon to those fruit-heads (sorry, i dont hate the mac platform, folks, but anyone that makes a facility strictly around one platform [that cant do openGL] these days is F'ed in the head to some degree, imho) and you'll be ready to render TGA/PNG/RPF to any drive on their network for compiling.

//gD

gary m. davis // visualz.com
application training specialist
3ds max | combustion
"don't key DV!"

Here's a 3ds max render comparison at least:
http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/athlon64-x2/index.x?pg=8

Dual Opteron 275: 1min. 10 sec.
Dual Xeon 3.4GHz: 2 min. 7 sec.

The Opteron pulls ahead because it is Dual Core and 3ds max is properly multi-threaded as you can see from the utilization charts for each CPU core.

The Select pulldown box further down on this page also has other benchmarks.

There will always be something faster next year or even next quarter...

In this case, AMD has a significant architectural advantage with HyperTransport which offers up to 24 GB/s throughput per processor, while Intel is maxed out at 6.4 GB/s currently, beacuse everything there has to go through the 800 MHz Front Side Bus.

Cache coherency is also handled much faster in the AMD architecture (this deals with one CPU requesting data that is being worked on by another CPU).

In the end I don't care who provides the fastest computers this month or next. This will always change.

I'm glad there is finally some progress in performance though, because for a long time it seemed like there was nothing much happening. I think it is really healthy for Intel to get some real competition on the high end also. This will give us lower prices and faster computers.

Phil,

Just FYI. I got an update from Autodesk about Combustion4 Mac. The quote reads:

"One of the reasons there is so much lag-time on C4 MAC is because they
are making sure that it will be compliant with all the latest hardware
that is being made available.

Last time around it was released to early and therefore we want to be
certain that when C4 MAC gets released customers get no surprises. I
understand that it's a long delay but it will be worth it.

As mentioned below, if you purchase C3 MAC now, you will receive C4 for
free as soon as it begins to ship and also I will add a set of
Combustion training DVD's for free/ these are a value of $300. These
DVD's are limited though."

This was from their Sales on the Direct side.


Keith Hill
http://www.LightedPath.biz
Dallas, TX
FCP HD (v4.5), Combustion 3 (v3.0.4), DVD StudioPro3 (v 3.0.2) all on a MAC G5 (v10.4-Tiger) 2Ghz PowerPC 1.5 RAM