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Retrospective
In 2014, Autodesk stopped further development of the software with Softimage 2015. In December of last year, Eric Mooz explained on the SI-Community website that his Mootzoid plug-ins were no longer economically profitable following the end of Softimage. For this reason, he is making all his plug-ins available free of charge and without a license.
What Is Included?
The freeware license includes several Softimage add-ons, the emPolygonizer meshing tool, which is compatible with Modo and Maya, and the emReader caching tool, which is compatible with Modo, Maya and Cinema4D. Here is an overview of the plug-ins and information about them:
- emFlock: The flocking and Neighborig solver prevents particles from merging or colliding with each other.
Compatible with: Softimage 2012 – 2015 - emFluid: Version 5 of the fluid solver comes as a beta version and with plenty of tutorials on the Mootzoid.com website.
Compatible with: Softimage 2012 – 2015 - emNewton: The plug-in simulates Isaac Newton’s law of gravitation. It is therefore useful above all for gravity simulations, for example simulations in space.
Compatible with: Maya 2017-2018, MODO 901- 11, Softimage 2012 – 2015 - emPlygonizer: The particle-mesh plug-in is available in version 5 and turns simple particles into polygon meshes. Compatible with: Maya 2017-2018, MODO 901- 11, Softimage 2012 – 2015
- emReader: The plug-in merely references the geometry cache files and passes them directly to the 3D application or renderer as needed.
Compatible with: Cinema 4D R17-R18, Maya 2017-2018, MODO 901- 11, Softimage 2012 – 2015 - emRPC: The renderer specializes in particles and point clouds and calculates frames in a matter of seconds.
Compatible with: Softimage 2012 – 2015 - emTools: This plug-in provides a variation of tools and command shaders. Compatible with: Softimage 2012 – 2015
- emTopolizer: emTopolizer, available as Version2, is a geometry plug-in for Softimage ICE and supports the creation, manipulation, conversion and editing of geometry in ICE.
Compatible with: Softimage 2012 – 2015 - emTree: The tree generator for Softimage works with predefined objects from polygon meshes. Compatible with: Softimage 2012 – 2015
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