TRAVISB opened this issue on Dec 10, 2002 ยท 54 posts
streetdog posted Wed, 11 December 2002 at 5:17 AM
Glad to see someone feeling good about max. I used max for quite a while until i realized i was just wasting time, even after mastering it. Let me point a few things that made me drop it: 1. Max is not too stable, it crashes too often no matter how much ram or processor power you got. 2. OpenGL accelaration sucks! Maya, XSI, C4D and LW fly compared to max. Also, as you mentioned, it's a memory hog. Those two combined make max one of the slowest interfaces on the market. 3. Plugins are a great thing to have but i don't want my renderer to be a plugin, to mention one. You spend a lot of money in 3dsmax and then you have to spend a lot of money on a plugin to get decent renders???? I thought it was part of the package... XSI (and now Maya) give away Mental Ray for free! I still use max for some specific work. Some of max's tools are unbeatable and some of the plugins are amazing, although you now start to see some of those plugins being integrated with other apps (like thinking particles). I think discreet has a rather arrogant attitude and they think they own the market. You see A|W, Avid, Newtek and Maxon lowering their prices and you see discreet making a statement on how good and expensive their software is! That shows little respect for the 3D community imo... I hope they assume a more humble position and start working on 3dsmax 6 listening to their users, fixing those stability issues and providing everyone with another great 3D app on the market!