Autodesk takes every opportunity it can to push Toxik while poor old Combustion languishes in the background. I don’t know where you get your information from, but in my experience it’s been the complete opposite. Also the hardest compositing package in the world to learn.Ĭombustion, bet they’re spewing they stopped development of this great product. Toxic Failed, they give it away with Maya now. The same goes for their 3D packages now they have purchased XSi.Īnyway you should enjoy smoke, get the sapphrie Pluggins, Furnace and Syntheyes, Oh and Autodesk has their own way of doing things but you’ll figure it 27121 wrote: Heres a list of Autodesk Compositing packages: Toxic, Combustion, Fire, Smoke, Inferno, Flame and Flint. I tend to agree with Enogs conclusion about Combustion, I think they need to consolidate Toxic and Combustion into the one product, In fact they need to consolidate most of there products. Toxic I know nothing about, I did play with it a year or so ago, I like the interface and once you get your head around Reaction (the Compositor) I think you’d be fine. I was encouraging one of the smoke Operators here (Funnily enough his name is Eugene) to possibly get Syntheyes for any 3D camera tracking you need to do, it’s pretty good and cheap. What you are missing will probably help increase your skills as you will not get complacent in relying on the software. Hey Euge04, I stopped using Smoke a few years ago and moved onto Flame, I had a look at batch in smoke a couple of days ago and it looks as if there are a lot of the essential tools in it.