Most Of My Images Are Gone

by Nik Willmore

Oct 19, 2017

Over the years I've posted many screenshots answering questions here. Besides most of my gallery images, which mostly disappeared two days ago, then reappeared last night, now most of those are gone and also gone are basically all of my older inline images, answering questions and solving student problems. That's a great resource, now meaningless without the images.

There are extensive links and followups for nearly every image, but no way to reupload each image, assuming I can find them, without losing the links and followups, since I can't update the source image, only delete the entire entry.

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    Thomas Helzle

    Hm - while I'm not sure about your tone towards McNeel, I also moved on last year to Houdini Indie and now Core and couldn't be happier. Grasshopper is way too slow for serious work and Rhino is very archaic in it's whole structure. Good for some limited things but not too much fun in the long run in 2017.

    Still I learned a lot here, some of it from you, and for that I'm very thankful! :-)
    Losing all that content is indeed bad.

    But I personally can't see McNeel as "evil" while I have no problem seeing Autodesk as such. They killed XSI (my tool of choice for almost 10 years) and now plumb XSI ICE into Maya - no thanks.

    I too can't see myself buying Rhino 6 ATM, since like you, I think it's a bit underwhelming in scope and the new licensing doesn't improve things.

    At one point it's time to move on, even if it's hard and needs letting go of grudges - I can be just as emotional about software as you, but the energy spent on trying to make Rhino/Grasshopper into something it's not is simply wasted.

    Thankfully I finally found a new home softwarewise, I went through many of the applications you mention but they all have their own flaws and limitations. SideFX at least have the right spirit, Houdini moves along joyfully, problems get fixed fast with daily builds, support is great, the software handles big assets easily and the combination of nodes and code (Python, VEX...) is a joy to use for my generative work. The community is amazingly helpful and communicates often on a very high level (for instance forums.Odforce.net). Works for me :-)

    I wish you all the best in your journey and again, thank you for the insights I gained from your posts in the past.

    Cheers,

    Tom

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    Oct 22, 2017

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      Anders Holden Deleuran

      Being a miserable PhD troll, you'll be pleased to hear that I tend to document things. I know that I promised to stay out of your hair when we talked last, but seeing as how you're so eager to salvage your contributions to the forum/mankind (again, one is not allowed to use "this Network as a generic file hosting service"), I saved these for you (warning: graphic imagery). Hope this doesn't count as a violation of the Terms of Service, technically being quotes, off-forum and all.

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      Oct 23, 2017

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        Siemen

        So removing ones account also removes all of his replies? Meaning, all of Nik's replies in discussions are now gone? That's pretty messed up...

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        Oct 27, 2017