operaguy opened this issue on Jun 12, 2007 · 107 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 13 June 2007 at 2:30 PM
You won't get into any of the higher-end apps on the cheap. A big part of what decided me on going with Lightwave was e-on's Vue/Lightwave bundle deal the year before last. I got into Lightwave cheap -- or at least as cheaply as I've ever seen it offered. Plus they threw in LWCAD 1.5 for free -- and coming from a CAD-engineering environment, that was an additional incentive for 'riding the wave'.
But no high-end app is going to fall into hobby-level prices. Not unless if you've got some expensive hobbies. Or unless if you've got money to burn on 3D toys.....which always helps.
IMO, the $20,000+ that I've sunk into 3D over the last 3-4 years needs to have some sort of justification for having been spent.