As of March 2023, ShiVa Editor 1.x, ShiVa Editor 2.0, the associated ShiVa engines, exporters and online services have reached the end of their public customer support period. ShiVa Technologies SAS will no longer be releasing updates for these products, deliver bugfixes, maintain compatibility with current or upcoming 3rd party hard- and software or create security fixes. No new ShiVa sales will be accepted. Existing customers will be able to continue using ShiVa products without official manufacturer support until they have found suitable alternatives.
This also means that my 10 year long tenure as ShiVa evangelist, technical writer, community manager, website admin and programmer at StoneTrip/ShiVa Technologies SAS has come to an end. Working with a cross-platform engine, I had to immerse myself very deeply into a myriad of technologies, hardware products, operating systems, programming languages, IDEs and toolchains, which gave me a very broad education, in many ways surpassing what university taught me. I hope that I have not only been able to pass on my knowledge in all the tutorials, sample programs and scripts I have written, but also the joy of discovering new techniques, new devices and new languages, of researching solutions for community problems, and constantly improving. Thank you for all the fond memories.
Some selected ShiVa tutorials, samples, videos and open-source plugins will remain online for the foreseeable future.