Combustion 2008 on Mac, Assertion Failure
by Ling Ly
on
May 9, 2008 at 10:38:35 pm
Wondering if anyone else has encountered this:
I installed Combustion 2008 on my MacPro 8-Core, 8GB RAM Mac OS 10.4.11.
Installation went fine. Launching it is fine. But starting a New File or Opening any existing file gives me this Error:
Assertion Failure in file "/p4Local/releases/combustion4_mac/oxygene/macproject/../source/workspace.cpp", line 216.
Anyone have any idea what's going on? I've gone back and forth with Autodesk Support, and their conclusion is that the program hasn't been successfully tested/supported on any Mac OSX build after 10.4.9.
Has anyone gotten the Combustion 2008 to work on 10.4.11?
Re: Combustion 2008 on Mac, Assertion Failure by Alan Okey on May 10, 2008 at 3:09:59 pm
It's been 7 months since OS X v10.5 was released. In my opinion, it's inexcusable that Autodesk has not yet certified Combustion for Leopard and released an update patch.
Re: Combustion 2008 on Mac, Assertion Failure by Keith Hill on May 17, 2008 at 1:16:25 pm
I had a similar problem that was so bad that I had to move on and not use combustion 2008. Though I love the app I have been totally disappointed in Autodesk. They've not been totally honest about their intentions in this whole thing relating to Combustion and Toxik.
I believe that AD will probably give us one more release (that they'll expect everyone to upgrade to) and then we'll see the truth come about. That they want everyone to move over to Toxik. So, for me, unless the product will be on MAC and has a cross-grade price similar to my initial investment in Combustion of $995, that'll probably be where I will bow out.
I think that they could be handling this a helluva lot better but what can you do? While I wait for something on the 'fix front' I continue to use other tools to get the job done. I will say that I love the combo of Combustion with Imagineer's Mocha (tracking and roto). That's been a pleasure to work with.
Keith Hill
Lighted Path Films | Productions
http://www.LightedPath.biz
Dallas, TX
G5 2Ghz, OS X (v10.4.10), Final Cut Studio 2 | Combustion 2008 | Cinema4D | Mocha | DVX100A 24p
Re: Combustion 2008 on Mac, Assertion Failure by Alan Okey on May 19, 2008 at 5:46:10 am
[Keith Hill]"I believe that AD will probably give us one more release (that they'll expect everyone to upgrade to) and then we'll see the truth come about. That they want everyone to move over to Toxik. "
As cynical as I am about Autodesk, I don't think that they really expect Combustion users to buy Toxic. The two applications serve different users/markets, and neither product has the tools that each others' market/users need.
I think it's more likely that Autodesk realizes that they have painted themselves into a corner with regard to Combustion's pricing, and they're much more interested in spending their development resources on improving their high margin products like Toxik and FFI.
If Combustion does go away, I think it would only be because Autodesk doesn't think it's strategically in their best interests to target the particular market segment that Combustion occupies. The market has spoken, and it's content to be served by After Effects.
Good products sometimes fade away. Some people still swear by Commotion for roto work. We use the tools that work for us, and find new ones when the old ones outlive their usefulness. When companies drop products, it's for carefully considered financial reasons. There is no malice in the equation, just as a shark feels no malice in eating a human being for lunch.
