***Heh... I would never ever buy max... so overpriced. If I was inclined to suffer thru learning the interface I'd buy Lightwave, which costs half as much as Max and has many more features "out of the box".

Max is great too, it's just you have to buy all those plugins to make it work.***

Just to clarify what you stated, Max is definitely expensive. I wouldn't call it overpriced.

What features does Lightwave have "out of the box" that Max doesn't? I can't think of any. In fact, I can think of a few things that Lightwave didn't have until recently (vertex color baking for example) that Max had for much longer. Also, Version 6 of Max comes with Mental Ray renderer, which beats Lightwave's native renderer hands down with it's micro-poly displacement and faster GI.

Yes, there are tons of plugins you can buy for it, but none of them are needed to make it work. Just clarifying that. ;-)

I'd never want to use Lightwave with all the "rooms" you have to work in. There's a module for modeling, then you have to switch to another for rigging, then another for animating, blah. ;-)
Message edited on: 06/24/2004 10:57

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