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hominid

I tend to confuse the Max name with the Autodesk 3d program "3ds max"

milkn
Cows have 4 legs.

I've liked the UI of Max. Very much Vista like indeed. However, maybe they should have a little word with the windows live messenger team to help with the UI there.
Live Messenger could benfit from it so much.

steamy

does anybody know if these animations when you move a picture and the rest rearranges will be implemented in the new shell in vista as well? because at the pdc 2003, one of the concept videos showed a behaviour like this, and i was happy to see it in max. just wondering...

Zeo
Channel 9 :)

Blackcomb is alive and well.....Good to know that the codename of "Blackcomb" hasn't changed! Thanks for the confirmation...hadn't heard that codename being used since early 2004 Smiley

moofish
Living in Scotland, UK

it doesnt even work I just spent about 1h trying to uninstall this and that to get it to work, why not just make it work with the most recent version of .net, come on

mwirth

Aah, i really like the wide aspect ratio of the recent videos.. and their hdtv'ness. Very nice quality.

Edit:
Right, Zeo, i remember having seen a video demo (file) quite a few years ago that was said to be some blackcomb technology. turned out it was more of a strategy for msn and media integration into the desktop. it was really inspiring, though. (i don't have it anymore.. i can just remember that it was the first time i had seen the sidebar).

Edit 2:
dah... i dig the vista style UI so much... need ... to get..... hold.... of...

Edit 3:
To Robert: A video still cut in! ... i don't know how others feel about that.. personally i wouldn't need it. the quality of your camera when filming a (flat panel) screen is really good.

jmacdonagh

moofish wrote:
it doesnt even work I just spent about 1h trying to uninstall this and that to get it to work, why not just make it work with the most recent version of .net, come on

Every new WPF CTP brings in breaking changes. For a project the size of Max, it might be difficult to adjust to these every time.

Yeah, it's annoying.

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

Zeo wrote:
Blackcomb is alive and well.....Good to know that the codename of "Blackcomb" hasn't changed! Thanks for the confirmation...hadn't heard that codename being used since early 2004

Zeo: sssshhhhh, but since this video was shot the codename for Blackcomb has indeed changed to Vienna. I haven't gotten the story on this yet, though.

TheStressedOutGuy
Stressed

Cool video, the guys there explained really welll what this is about. I hear there are some problems getting this thing to work, but I'll try it out anyway on my WinXP back home.

The quality of the video is great, but the aspect ratio seems a bit scewed. Looks like when you squeeze in a widescreen picture on a 4:3 tv screen... Big Smile