is this what autodesk ceo was talking about?

[super gnu]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11...ud_aws_images/


cool setup, and possibly useful, but you just know they would love this to be the only way to access their software :P

[vlado]

I'm actually somewhat surprised by the lack of any reaction to this; no comments on MaxUnderground, nothing on CGTalk or CGArchitect... I'd have thought it would make some buzz.

Best regards,
Vlado

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

nothing beats good old way of doing things

[Morne]

I'm actually somewhat surprised by the lack of any reaction to this; no comments on MaxUnderground, nothing on CGTalk or CGArchitect... I'd have thought it would make some buzz.

Best regards,
Vlado

We were waiting for you to say it's crap, and then just put it in the pile of other realtime stuff that's doing the rounds the last few months

[vlado]

We were waiting for you to say it's crap, and then just put it in the pile of other realtime stuff that's doing the rounds the last few months

It seems to work pretty well actually, from what we could test. I don't like the Octane stuff, naturally, but I guess it is what it is.

Best regards,
Vlado

[samuel_bubat]

Except some marketing dudes... who wants this ? A serious question. In wich situation would anyone want to use Max in a Browser ?
I mean an average consumer PC can easily handly most scenes nowadays it´s not that you need a supercomputer for max. Rendering is another thing
but from what I´ve red here in the forum recently, most people still advice a renderfarm like Rebus instead of the Amazon Cloud. So to me it´s just
a shareholders wet dream. I can´t really find a scenario where this would make sense.
Also after the recent events, who would ever upload sensitive customer data into an US based cloud

[AJ Jefferies]

Except some marketing dudes... who wants this ? A serious question. In wich situation would anyone want to use Max in a Browser ?

If I could work remotely from any location without having to install 3ds max, it would be incredibly useful. Also, the idea of running high end software on a low end hardware is hugely appealing. That said, I already do a lot of remote managing of our machines at work through services like Logmein & Hamachi from laptops & ipads, so I am biased toward this approach

[vlado]

I connect to my office workstation from various places all the time too; but do I want it on the cloud, this is the question

Best regards,
Vlado

[glorybound]

It's just installing on a virtual box and accessing it remotely, I do it every day. I logon to my office using either VPN, logmein, or Chrome's RD. I tried Autodesk's tool, but I didn't see any benefits to what I was already doing.

EDIT

I was thinking of their Autodesk Remote, which is something different, so I haven't used this.

[raymarcher]

Won't this give acces of 3ds Max to Mac users without rewriting the software. I can't image them adjusting Max for Mac, they can't even easely rewrite the core for Windows.

[Nicinus]

If it does it is a paradigm shift. Adobe would tag along swiftly.

[vlado]

I don't know about that; it seems this is not yet ready for any kind of color-accurate workflow. The ORBX.js codec is a video codec with all the drawbacks - blocky artifacts, color distortions etc. Not sure how it would work with monitor calibration and so on.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Nicinus]

That may be, but time has a tendency to solve that type of problems.

[PixelJockey]

More info on Max in a browser or even an iPad.

http://www.cgchannel.com/2013/11/new...-your-browser/