3D Studio Max
Spooky Mulder
1.) Can somebody tell me where I can get 3D Studio MAX and how much does it
cost?
2.) What is 3D Studio Release 4? Is it good and can you make nice
animation's?
CU,
René
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Richard Clark
>1.) Can somebody tell me where I can get 3D Studio MAX and how much does it
>cost?
I do'nt know in US but in France it's about 24 000 frs H.T, that mean 4 000
US$
>2.) What is 3D Studio Release 4? Is it good and can you make nice
>animation's?
Max is better (it's an evolution of 3ds4). If you have a good machine, PII
300 with a good video card, buy Max.
I used a P166 with 3ds4. It is very correct.
The same project under Max with the same machine render 1/2 times.
Now, with a PII 400, under Max, it render 3x.
In conclusion, Max is the best for animation, but be carefull, you MUST have
the machine for it.
richard.
rlunsfor
>animation's?
I have used 3DS r4 for years, It is possibly easier than MAX but it is a dos
program. And 3ds MAX needs NT to work properly. The animations controls in
r4 basicly the same except for a few advanced features.
Joshua Lunsford
rlunsfor
Dan the Weaponer
Absolutely wrong opinion! Such foolish 'answers' drive me wild! Max is
not new, 'NT-oriented' version of 3D Studio, next to 4! Max is ANOTHER
animation program, having OTHER concepts, built with OTHER principles;
it's 3D software of the new generation. It can import/export 3DS 4 files
and has 'family name' - 3D Studio. It is quite a rare case: programmers
from Kinetix did not modify and improve 3DS 4, they did write completely
NEW program.
3DS 4 IS NOT EASIER than MAX - almost all similar operations are easier
in MAX; all MAX's tools are specially designed for productive work.
Max's concepts provide one with friendly, intuitive, powerful and
flexible environment and tools; even tools with the same (in Max and 4)
names provide animator with different, in essence, operations.
And Max does not has 'a few advanced features'. Its capabilities simply
can't be compared to the ones of 3DS 4; it's like to compare MS Word 7
(or 97) to MS WordPad (or, if you like it more, Win NT 4.0 to Win 3.x).
If you don't see the difference, you are a bad animator (and bad Windows
user).