EClark1894 opened this issue on Apr 29, 2021 ยท 20 posts
wolf359 posted Fri, 30 April 2021 at 2:23 PM
I agree completely with both Luxx and Lobo
The value of Maya is the 24 hour tech support with the ability to call Autodesk at 3:15 am and have a live person Walk you through any software issue even writing/delivering a custom Melscript to patch your copy of Maya if necessary.
Also I have Three PC's. My main workstation is one year old.
But I also run the latest stable Blender on 6 year old Toshiba laptop (with 4 gigs of ram and an AMD integrated graphics card) where I test add-ons and do some light hard surface modeling with Hardops &box cutter.
If your hardware is older/lesser than this, you are probably locked out of any modern 3DCC and even hobbiest Character programs Like Poser or Daz studio as well as stuck at the vestigial dead end of Pre 2.8+ versions of Blender.
There are sometimes die hards, over on the Blenderartist forum who occasionally post ranting screeds against the Blender foundation for "adandoning the old guard "etc . and that is fine, as is staying with Pre 2.8+ for comfort bubble reasons.
But just know that trying to participate in the many online Blender communities for help, will likely be an increasingly frustrating experience .