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Originally Posted by cbale2000
Personally, I think they would get more entries for the animation if they allowed the use of other software as well (at a teams own expense of course), in my experience I've found 3DsMax is NOT very user friendly when compared with other options out there.  |
I agree that it would be better for this teams, however, Autodesk sponsors the award. Also, FIRST is basically about learning new things, even if it is hard. 3dsmax does have a huge learning curve--the interface is unlike anything most students have ever used before, but once you understand the gist, it's easy enough to do some decent work.
As for finding students, I've found that it's best to work with a smaller number of students anyway. Having too much going on is hard to put together and collaborate, especially since you can only have one person on a computer anyway.
It's hard, true, but it's what I've been doing for years so I want to see it kept alive
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