Refractive Software has to face it, Piracy exist, and it will exist always, now what they have to think is in providing the best workflow to their clients, having to depend of external persons or services are a pain in the ass, the dongle solution is very welcome, or even a standard serial number ...

David's comments are spot on, and what I was arguing when the announcement about the new connection scheme was first announced. I think I'll personally survive without a refund, but customers should have the right to receive one upon request. As much as I respect the guys, Refractive's attempts to ...

I agree with David's sentiments, but I've said my bit. Good to see things got sorted out on this occasion.

So, what price would someone need to spend before they're allowed to feel annoyed at something like this? Keep in mind also that Radiance dropped the price so some of the poorer folks could grab it. If there are people out there like that, then $99 euros isn't a small amount to everyone.

The price ...

Lechu, seriously, it's not going to be drastically different from what we already know. And, if by some miracle of miracles it is, you can't expect everyone to just up and accept being delivered what they didn't in good faith pay for ahead of time. I'm here to test Octane leading up to version one ...

Octane Live sounds potentially exciting. But, I certainly hope it doesn't go the way of XSI's Net View, or countless other web-based program additions. Ah heck. Who am I kidding. Of course it will. All of those web additions die in time, and programs look like broken messes because of it.

On the ...

Radiance, some of us don't need stress either. This sounds like a bad idea that has many of us frustrated, but I'll reserve judgement 'til 2.3, as requested. But seriously, if you want less stress, I heartily recommend not dumping potentially negative surprise changes on a community without prior ...

I'm happy to see the details of what this new connection system is, but any developer who thinks a permanent connection (or anything similar) is going to prevent piracy has rocks in their head. It won't, and I speak from experience. All it does is frustrate the people using the program legitimately ...

Heh, thanks Chris_TC. I actually figured that out during my mucking about, but forgot about it when looking at the manual! But anyway, it looks like the manual is wrong.

Can anyone confirm the floattexture problem?

Something I'm a bit confused about with 2.2 RC3. The current manual for 2.3 says,

The roughness determines the amount of reflection that will be present. A low roughness
value will create blurry reflections and a high value will produce a mirror like reflection.
Values below 40 are not recommended ...