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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Ulundel on October 30, 2003, 07:07:08 am

Title: Max 6!
Post by: Ulundel on October 30, 2003, 07:07:08 am
Yes, the latest reincarnation of the best CG workstation ever is out. And this time, Discreet claims to make a demo version available for download - in November. Hallelujah!

http://www.discreet.com/3dsmax/#
Title: Max 6!
Post by: Setekh on October 30, 2003, 07:17:41 am
Hey, nice. This'll be worth me having a peek at it.

In November? That could be tomorrow. :D
Title: Max 6!
Post by: Ulundel on October 30, 2003, 07:28:39 am
Yeah, it's my birthday. Sort of...2nd November actually but we'll be celebrating it tomorrow.
Title: Max 6!
Post by: Devils_Hitman on October 30, 2003, 08:09:25 am
Yeh ive got it, its pretty damm good.
Title: Max 6!
Post by: Deepblue on October 30, 2003, 09:41:21 am
Bleh Max 5 is fine. :p
Title: Max 6!
Post by: mikhael on October 30, 2003, 11:07:49 am
Meh. I'll take LW8. :D
Title: Max 6!
Post by: Ulundel on October 30, 2003, 11:20:47 am
Actually, I've even tried LW but that endless row of buttons just doesen't make sense to me. Probably because I'm used to Max. Meh
Title: Max 6!
Post by: Gloriano on October 30, 2003, 11:39:56 am
i'll take hammer:nervous:

i would take LW8
Title: Max 6!
Post by: Flipside on October 30, 2003, 12:16:53 pm
If you don't like buttons, then how do you boot Truespace without having a fit?

I've always liked Lightwave, it seems pretty sensible to me, apart from some of the buttons aren't always where I would put them, but I always found Max and it's 'Menus within Menus with Menus' approach somewhat laborious :(

Flipside :D
Title: Max 6!
Post by: mikhael on October 30, 2003, 12:37:33 pm
Venom will tell you that you can customize the interface for Max to suit your tastes. I'll tell you the same thing for Lightwave. I've reorganized my buttons and my tabs so they work right for me.

What I'd really like is to have those tabs down the left side and have tabs for layers across the top. It doesn't make sense to me that the tabs for changing button groups spreads across the top of the workspace.

Now, what I could really kill for is to have Lightwave's Undo stack turned into something like Photoshops undo, or the Max modifier stack. I'd love to be able to browse back through a list of modifications and make changes to the order in which I did things, and have those changes cascade through all the subsequent modification actions.

:D
Title: Max 6!
Post by: Stryke 9 on October 30, 2003, 01:10:26 pm
Heh, guess what I've got coming in the mail.

Free upgrades kick ass.
Title: Max 6!
Post by: Ulundel on October 30, 2003, 01:13:07 pm
Ignore my whining, I'm just addicted to Max that's all ;)
Title: Max 6!
Post by: Flipside on October 30, 2003, 06:33:32 pm
LOL No probs :) I wish Lightwave didn't force you to bugger around when swapping from layer 10 to layer 11, I'll have to see if I can adjust matters to have, say, 20 layer tabs available at once :)

Flipside :D
Title: Max 6!
Post by: an0n on October 30, 2003, 08:04:26 pm
Pfff. MAX peaked at R3. If R3 had had the little global-coords changer thing in the bottom bar it would've been perfect. Infact that's the only reason I use R4, so I can quickly clone and mirror objects then quickly switch them from a +ive axis to a -ive one.
Title: Max 6!
Post by: Stryke 9 on October 30, 2003, 08:16:11 pm
That it did, more or less, but radiosity ain't bad to have around. Though I wish there were still third-party plugins coming out at the rate they used to.
Title: Max 6!
Post by: wEvil on October 31, 2003, 07:02:27 am
*giggles at mental ray support*

3 years later than everyone else but anyhow...
Title: Max 6!
Post by: Nico on November 02, 2003, 01:54:18 pm
Quote
Originally posted by an0n
Pfff. MAX peaked at R3. If R3 had had the little global-coords changer thing in the bottom bar it would've been perfect. Infact that's the only reason I use R4, so I can quickly clone and mirror objects then quickly switch them from a +ive axis to a -ive one.


R3 was the worst of the series. Full of bugs, no real upgrade, nothing.
Interesting versions were the 1 ( d'huh ), the 2.5, the 4.2 and the 5.1 . Dunno about the 6, but what I've seen looks cool.
Title: Max 6!
Post by: an0n on November 02, 2003, 05:31:46 pm
/me liked 2.5
Title: Max 6!
Post by: Kamikaze on November 02, 2003, 06:36:49 pm
*[l]has[/l] haven't had it for about a week*

;)