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To The Artist formerly know as... Well I don know that so I guess $_@_1_i_|< will have to do.
I never said that because they are giving it to us, it must be awesome. Please read before you accuse me of somthing. All I'm saying is don't dis Autodesk just because you feel like it. Think about what you are saying first. If you read your first post, it soinded like you thought Max was the worst software written. Then your next post you say you love it. Make up your mind.
FYI: Good FUR and Hair features weren't available in the big software untill fairly recently. There have been versions that existed, but nothing that was that great. Monsters INC was the first major production that had really realistic Fur and that was alot of proprietary progaramming by Pixar. I have a friend who works for Blue Sky Productions- they did Animations on movies like Alien 3: Reserection. I know that they have former Rocket Scientists and/or Neuclear Physists on their programming team and they right code for stuff like that that the public never sees.
So why should somthing like MAX hav it included. I nkow you think this software is expensive, but try buying a Fully equiped version of Maya. The only reason there is a version of MAYA that costs about the same as 3D Max is they wanted to expand their market. But thats not what the big guys are using.
I've been in this industry for 10years (Professionally) things take time to develop and trickle down to the lower end software. I've seen this and experienced this first hand. Things that used to take lots of skill and experience and a week of development time 5-10 yrs ago- Can now be accomplished with a push of a button. Be patient.
THIS FORUM IS BUILT AROUND FIRST and the VISUALIZATION COMPETITION. If this is the application you are applying the software in, then you should have no problem upgrading your software from an Educational reseller. In this case we upgraded last year for $150 each. If you read my first post, you would see that recomendation a while ago.
I am primarily a LIGHTWAVE3D user. It is in the same price range as MAX. Both of these ARE used in a professional environment and are used on TV shows, Movies and anything else you want. There are several reasons it is used, one is that they are good packages, another is that they are relativly cheap. its more cost effective and productive to have 10 seats of MAX or LW3D than it would be to have 10 seats of the FULL version of MAYA. But MAYA would be out of business if Cost was the only factor. There is a difference in what you get so it costs more.
There are features much simpler than FUR that I saw take 2-3 releases of software to come to furition. They existed for years in Softimage and MAYA and I turned blue holding my breath waiting for them to come out and finally they did. So keep waiting and let them know what you want. If they get enough requests, they will put prioriety on it.
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