From what I have been hearing is that version 2 will be out at SIGGRAPH, and will include a mesh warper, and if you have ever used Batch in Inferno/Flame, word is that it will be in the next version too!!!! Batch is basically a node system! Also, I hear that do to demands from film companies, Combustion will also be 10 bit colour!!!!
After seeing Cyborg (5D) at a show in Mexico, Discreet is going to get a good kick in the as........ for what 5d has managed to do on NT. For the first time we have Flame on NT, and it is not a discreet product! If a discreet person reads this, why does combustion not have the speed of Cyborg
Don't take my word as the absolute, but I have heard that combustion will I/O capabilities in the near future or in Version 2 with the frame bufferes.
Michael Dalton
Art Director
TDP Studios
Guadalajara, Mexico