3DVim opened this issue on Sep 05, 2006 · 82 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Thu, 07 September 2006 at 1:40 AM
From everything that I've seen, C4D is a great app. But it's not quite as venerable as Lightwave. Lightwave is sort-of the standard high-end app that gets mentioned for individual pros. And in addition to being powerful, LW is also affordable -- and it has a great renderer built right in. When you start talking Maya or 3ds Max, then you are talking a whole 'nother ballgame, price-wise. Plus there's the fact that software like 3ds Max requires ex$pen$ive plug-ins to get a truly good render engine tacked onto the program.
However, many of the top-tier Poser content creators do their modeling in C4D. And as I mentioned earlier, V3 and M3 were both born in Lightwave. I tend to be a LW partisan, due to the fact that I got started in the program a few months ago. But I wouldn't dream of bad-mouthing C4D, either. My impression is that C4D isn't quite considered to be on LW's level.
In order to figure out what would suit you best for high-end apps: you'll need to try them. Hey -- it's only money. So buy 'em all -- that's what I say ! 