A group of individuals including myself have started work on a small commercial plugin for Maya. It's similar to Maxs "soft Selection" or Softimages "proportional modeling" tool.
While surfing the modeling forums the other day I caught that a similar plugin had been posted. Which brings me to the reason I'm writing. Given that there's a tighter integration or more in-depth features, does anyone feel there's a market for our commercial version when a comparable tool already exist?
If you could also include other modelling tools that people have been clamoring for then yes maybe a commerical version would be nice .. otherwise if there is a free version allready there's not much reason.
Depends on the price. I think soft select is one of those things that people don't use everyday, but when you want it you really want it.
Key things that make MAX's so successful is the ease of use. Coloring of the verts is what I really miss from MAX's implementation and ease of changing the size of the falloff. Also keep in mind that a big part of the power of soft-select is having it in the stack. To do it right in Maya it would have to be an editable/animatable history node.
Also keep in mind that though it might seem that there is a market since people are clamoring for it, it will probably eventually make it into the base package. I don't recall seeing it in the "What's New" Maya5 press release, though. Are people going to buy it? Hard to say.
Yews a history selection would be better since then you could use it for anything from cluster generator to whatever. Even a modifer to sdd selections would be great!