As you may have heard, Klaus Karlhuber passed away on March 8th 2004. Beside the shock that his death caused in the Cinema community, a lot of you will have questions about the future of his work.

The code of all the plugins Klaus Karlhuber wrote for idea-graphics is complete, well commented and organized. However, we at idea-graphics don't have the necessary skills in this special field for further developing his work.

It was Klaus' last will that the plugins he wrote should become available to the Cinema 4D community without commercial interest, and so be it. Currently we are evaluating ways to achieve this while also ensuring open access to the source code for further non-commercial development by others, as a kind of memorial project for Klaus Karlhuber.

As you may imagine, this is a rather complicated issue, so if you have time, ideas or other resources to contribute to this effort, please let us know. We're open to suggestions (please mail them to raffael.friedrich@idea-graphics.de).

The Bonderland Open Beta #7 timed out at the end of April. Klaus provided a quick hack in the forum to circumvent that - but we decided to recompile a version which won't time out before end of June. To the best of our limited knowledge there shouldn't be any other functional effects beside the timeout using this version.

Just for the record: This download of the last working state of Bonderland is named #7.1.


