Gustavo
“you all have proven you are completely unqualified to make any decisions on rendering quality.”
Thanks. From @theoutside, @BrianJ, @nathanletwory and @me.
All I can really say is that you haven’t figured out how this works.
If you want a company that tells you what you want before you know you want it, we’re not that company. Instead, we try to get our actual users to explain to us what they need, and we try to provide the tools to do that.
Ideally, it will turn out that if we solve a problem one of our users has, we will have solved it for a couple of dozen more. Sometimes it works out well. Sometimes we have to iterate a few times before we get it right. If everyone seems cool with what we’ve got, we stop iterating.
Sometimes we properly screw it up.
We also don’t look at other software as an example of what we should be doing. If you want what the other software does, well…there’s the other software. It already does it. Sometimes that other software is a 3rd party plug-in for Rhino - that’s even better, because we get some of their success rubbed off on us.
And we don’t try to enforce solutions on users that are basically our own idea of how stuff should work. Heck - you’re the designer. I’m just a recovering architect who hasn’t lifted a Rotring pen in anger for 20 years. And if we hire designers…well…we just made them not designers anymore. So they’re now basically useless.
In other words, you need to tell us what you want. Not the other way around.
You guys are the inmates running the asylum. This non-sense needs to stop. And this playing dumb and confused, and setting low expectations as a reason of why the work is sub-par is not cool guys.
Exactly. That’s exactly what we are doing.
Deliberately.
But we’re not playing dumb and confused. We really are confused. We have only a hazy idea of what’s going on in your head. And it would really help if, instead of insulting pretty much everyone here, you would try to explain it. Probably around seven or eight times - until it finally gets through the rubbery outer layer of our cluelessness.
I know it’s frustrating. I’m sorry we’re so thick. But we really aren’t gas-lighting you.
And we’re not attempting to set expectations any way at all. We’re just trying to solve our users’ problems the best way we possibly can. And when we think our users think there’s enough solved problems, we ship something.
So - stepping back a little here:
We have the tube thing that looks a bit like a spark plug. And apparently it looks like crap.
Let’s have some discussion about why that is. And whether the changes we could potentially make to Rhino before we ship the next version - which isn’t all that far off people - would actually make for a good general solution.
Ideally, in a respectful and calm way.
Because otherwise I’m going to stop listening.
Andy