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A&G Tool Company closes doors

Dec 30, 2015 by CGP Staff
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A&G Tool Company, developers of useful tools for Max such as Studio Light Rig, Bevel Mill, DomeLight Pro, MassFX Toolkit and Shaker, is closing doors and has issued an End of Life (EOL) statement for all of its software, textures, and shader packs. Requests to transfer a license from one computer to another will be supported until February 1, 2016. More on A&G Tool Company’s website.

Source: MauricioPC

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stig atle steffensen
9 years ago

I wish they would release the tools as open source, instead of closing shop and taking it all with them down the drain.

Glad I do not have tools from them, I do not to use 3rdparty tools with licenses, I make the tools myself, or use open source tools – so that issues like this does not happen in production pipeline.

rs
9 years ago

That’s really a shame, the ending is quite abrupt after they were quite active in the last years… I also hope they release their tools instead of killing so much knowledge!

MauricioPC
9 years ago

Was somebody able to know why they are doing this? The EOL looks rather not explanatory.

NIR
9 years ago

I am not a client but I would expect them to at least send their lawful clients a non-encrypted or a non locked version so that once they have a need to move to another PC – they are not left in the dark.
the speed of shutting down the business looks like a legal issue – no serious company shuts down their acts as fast.

York
8 years ago

Why Autodesk has not bought it yet?
At least Caosgroup could have had it.

Jim Todd
8 years ago

This is of course one downside of reliance upon plugins.

I live in fear of my favorite plugins vanishing in this way.

MauricioPC
Reply to  Jim Todd
8 years ago

I still find it weird that they did it without telling the customers why. Sounds strange and kind of disrespectful for its clients.

Matt
8 years ago

autodesk can’t come up with stuff like what they had on their own. so at least they could have bought them and kept em on staff to come up with ideas to push things forward

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