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Originally posted by Nero
I've tried Blender back in the day, and it wasn't exactly up to par with 3DS, plus it had numerous bugs of its own. I hear they have a new version and im going to check it out, does it have a decent amount of features as compared to max?

Audacity is cool, not as good as Cool Edit Pro, but sure beats Windows Recorder lol.
Blender back in the day is a completely different subject. It is open-source now and development is happening on it with great speed. The game engine is under going some changes and hasn't been around since 2.25 and won't be available for a bit due to licensing issues with the solid library, but other than that, it is very functional and now includes even a sound editor inside it. (as if text editors, video editors, image editors and texture editors weren't enough side tools...) Yes, definatly worth a look. Perhaps by the time the kickoff comes about 2.3 will be out, the plans for that look really nice, the GUI is going to be updated while keeping the strengths of blender.

As for more features, (other than the editors), yes. It has plenty, if any of you think maxscript is kinda cool, then you should try blender's python scripting. Very powerful language, very powerful scripting, very powerful period. Look at the MakeHuman project (under the python modules section) if you want to see some of what can be done. Then there's the realtime capabilities of blender, the web-plugins (not deved at the moment, but still around), the game-engine (in regression until solid gets back, just stick with 2.25) and a few others. Then the rendering times, well... let's just say from my experience they are much faster. Network rendering is also available with a fairly simple solution for that (just a python script I think acutally...) though there's another network renderer built in. Hmmm, lesse, more features, ah yes, a monkey as a primitive, a very nice UI once you get used to it, 3ds's sliding bars of buttons represent the evil of about the top 6 UI flaws ever... And yeah, there's some more cool features I forgot about... neat improved metaballs, and a few more things.

(this picture made with blender is kinda pretty if you want to see what it can do in skilled hands: http://www.blender3d.org/_gfx/galler...io_2000_12.jpg)

As for Audacity, yes, it's a nice little app, as I've said before though, if you want something to compare to Cool edit pro et. al. you need to take a look at Ardour.
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