Boris BLUE 3.0?

Hi Paul,

Our current focus is with Boris RED 5 and making sure that we cover all of the target hosts as best as we can on all platforms, 32 and 64. We're also very busy with the BCC updates, again for many different target hosts on multiple platforms. With that, there are no immediate plans for updating Boris Blue ... that may or may not change as we make progress and move forward with our current projects but as of today that's where we stand with that.

RED is more of a compositor, Blue is more of a graphics engine ... but there has always been a lot of crossover between Boris RED and Boris Blue, with the major difference being that Blue utilizes hardware GPU rendering for previews and the final result, falling back to CPU rendering only when necessary and RED offering OpenGL GPU previews for speedy 3D set up but always doing the final render using the CPU. This is what provides Blue with real-time previews and near real-time renders. It's blazingly fast for 3D graphics work, as you are well aware, but it's a Windows only product so it's not for everybody. We would like to add more features from Blue into RED and this may indeed happen (perhaps with RED 6) but at this point in time we're more focused on finishing the updates to RED 5 for all host targets / platforms.

I hope this helps.

Peter.

Bringing Blue's 3D model import ability over to RED would be SWEEEEET!

Thanks. It seems what you've told me was what I had pretty much figured out, but wanted an official answer. In fact, (heh heh eheh), I actually passed up ProAnimator in favor of RED, because I assumed it to be a mere 3D text animator: well having played with the new PA5 demo I was wrong: ProAnimator is a pretty sweet package. It seems to be that RED/BLUE crossover product.

But I still love BLUE, but the hosting issues aside, I agree with you Peter, RED & BCC deserve more development focus in the current term. BUT, it would be great if RED did inherit BLUE's 3D & GPU Real-time rendering features (hint, hint).

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