Project Messiah for 10 $ !

tfdesign

If you think about it, it's actually a very good way of making a quick buck.

The developers are probably millionaires now!

Now if only UGS would do the same thing with NX7.5, Or Autodesk with 3DS Max, or AutoCAD!

tfdesign

In celebration, I've updated my avatar- seeing there is a cartoon theme going on here!

Tom & Jerry Zoot Cat!

Doh! YouTube have broken my usual trick of uploading vids- BOOO!

Good old fashioned links;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlSCk3LmHbk

Ecuadorian

"35,000 hits. 103,000 combined views"
By "hits" do they mean sales? If that's the case, they have made around 1 million bucks with this campaign, assuming more than half the people went for the PRO license.

Yeah, sure, they're taking their time to process their licenses... That probably means there's still a lot of people buying.

dale

One webpage, many hits

Hits are commonly misinterpreted as a metric for website success, however the number of hits rarely translates to the number of people visiting a website. Nor are the number of hits the same as the number of webpages viewed. (Individual webpages accessed, or ‘page views’, are a more meaningful metric.)

A webpage is typically made up of a number of individual files. When a webpage is viewed, each of these files is requested from the web server, and each file request increases the hit-count for the website.

For example, if a homepage comprises:

* an HTML document;
* two stylesheets;
* ten images and;
* a JavaScript file;

then 14 hits will be added to the hit-count each time the homepage is viewed.

jason_maranto

They may not have made alot of money here but they dramatically increased their marketshare and they will more than make up the difference when it comes time to upgrade to V6... very savvy strategy.

Best,
Jason.

Ecuadorian

I remember the web definition of "hit" as at some point in the past I designed web sites... But since the number was way lower than the number of "combined views", I guessed they must be giving the word "hit" some other sense here.

Ecuadorian

Only 5 hours left for those on the fence...

It has just occurred to me that you might use this as a rendering program. It has the usual features:
Hair & fur
Particle Clouds
Displacement
Blurry reflections
Caustics
Sub Surface Scattering
Anisotropics
Several Global Illumination methods
Surface emitters

A gallery:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=92&t=160345

MtnArch

I bought two Pro versions to help all of us along - and just found out that they are still accepting the reduced pricing now even though they've hit their magical number. Buy one for a friend, maybe?

tfdesign

I tried to purchase another copy (during that 12 hour grace period), but got nowhere. Perhaps the server wasn't working?

chloesdad

The following statement is on their site at present:

**Due to the overwhelming response, we are in the process of updating the license system to better automate the management of everyone generating their licenses. We have a 3 day delay in finalizing the transactions, and downloading them into the system. We hope to have license generation up by Saturday or perhaps sooner. You will be getting an email to the email address you provided paypal when you purchased, that will contain the url and login info to generate your license for your purchase or purchases(if you did them in more than one transaction).

Ecuadorian

That only confirms my impression that they sold dozens of thousands of licenses.

tfdesign

Anyone heard anything yet?

TIG

Nope

Khai

Licences are mailing out, looks like they are doing them in batches.

also to note :

"We discovered a bug, in the PHP web language (not our code), that generates wrong numbers for certain client ids who drive info is above a certain number range, leading to licenses that don't work. We have created a custom function to fix it, and are in the process of trying it. If your license file contains the lockid: CB2147483647B29 this is causing the problem. Many other people have generated their license fine, and are unaffected by the bug. There is nothing you have to do yet; we will check the license text for you and see if we can reset it, so you can generate it again." - pmG

if you've not got yours by now, you should'nt be affected.

chloesdad

Just a head's up:
I received my email notice yesterday, Sunday. The download went well, Messiah is running on my iMac (OS 10.5.8). Just go slowly, read their instructions.

Various video tutorials here (can be downloaded):
http://www.projectmessiah.com/x6/videos.html

Extensive online help here:
http://www.eggswhyzed.com/messiah_docs/

Looks like it could be fun... eventually.

dale

Good to hear I was getting nervous.

EscapeArtist

The community forums there are full of people complaining about licenses not working or not having received them. I ordered my copy when the bar had barely moved and haven't got license yet, so I guess things are a bit of a mess there. Good to know things are being worked on, but it would be nice to have an official announcement or email about how and when your license is being dispensed.

Ecuadorian

Just received the e-mail. It seems you can lock your license to either your hard drive or a USB drive. Just wondering what are you guys choosing...

Khai

installed and running using a surplus 1gb drive we've hardly used

dale

@ecuadorian said:

Just received the e-mail. It seems you can lock your license to either your hard drive or a USB drive. Just wondering what are you guys choosing...

Just got mine too.
That's a good question. I'll have to think about that.