Hi Timothy,
I’m not so impressed with Redway I’m afraid – their 3D algorithms seem clumsy (where is the antialiasing!) and the redNET cloud is a brute force approach to rendering rather than using better techniques. You only have to look at some current games available or some other room/house design software to see what current graphics processors are capable of doing in real-time.
That said, we do not know what 2020 have signed up for with Redway – they may have contracted for a subset of the main engine with more limited capabilities. I think 2020 are moving very definitely in the right direction but one has to ask whether it is time for a complete re-write of the product rather than the constant tweaking we are seeing. The tweaking is adding features but introducing ever more bugs.
2020 are not alone in this – if Microsoft had completely rewritten Windows about 5 years ago when 64 bit multicore processors became a lot cheaper, it wouldn’t be the bloated lump it is now.
A software package like 2020 Design succeeds or fails due to a number of factors including marketing but also on the user base. A strong user base results in a strong package. Given that there must be a substantial 2020 user base out there, I am surprised that I see just a few people (almost always the same faces) posting here and in the other 2 forums.
I’d like to see far more interaction between 2020 and it’s users – formalised bug reporting and actioning, wishlists that are prioritised and so on.
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