$10/mo for Mudbox 2015
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Just find Mudbox 2015 desktop subscription is $10/mo. Perpetual license is $495. I remember Mudbox used to be more expensive than ZBrush. Did Autodesk reduce the price recently?
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the prices are still ludicrous, if they charged 3-500 dollars I would bet they would make more money, piracy is rather grim as we need people to pay so it can keep being developed but it does happen on maya/max on a large scale because the price is so high, its a barrier to a ton of students, freelancers, non first world countries.
where as something like Zbrush its pricing is far more reasonable, I do wonder if it has anything to do with comparative competition but I still maintain as I always have that charging more than a top or the line PC, a car, or in many countries 2 months or more of wages, for a piece of software is borderline lunacy for the individual.
(The irony of it all is that I was forced into one of these upgrades because at some point they accidentally removed a brush feature, but instead of patching it back in they waited for the next paid upgrade to fix it !)
Now if only they finally decided to offer free updates like Pixologic do, things would be wildly different...
thats my entire problem with the autodesk mindset, I had an entire day wasted last week because of a 3ds max export bug,I do wonder at what point can you sue the maker of a buggy piece of software for refusing to patch it and wasting your time, people have sued telemarketers for such things successfully.
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20100513/0053499408.shtml
The consumer protection law should be covering us, making these patches free so you get your software as advertised working at the time, but I am sure autodesk has an army of lawyers and the like so how fesible it is applying your rights is another matter entirely.
The only reason autodesk gets away with this is the minimal alternative, blender, modo, where as mudbox im sure the price is only kept as low as it is, is because of Zbrush and 3D coat being direct rivals instead of umbrella corp.
(This was the "update plane" tickbox of the flatten brush btw. Which at the time was unique to Mudbox - it was the only way to sculpt a perfectly flat surface with no lumpy artefacts)
minimum 1 year subscription, UNity pro will still charge you even though you unsubscribe until it reach 1 year cap
75$ x 12 = 900$
They will NEVER, EVER follow Pixologic's strategy. NEVER. Reason?
They'll probably say that they wouldn't profit from it or some such BS.
What they need to do is knock 2000$ OFF the price tag of a single seat license, because as it stands, it's completely unreasonable.
I've got Zbrush and i'm not going back to Mudbox, tried the 2012 educational version for a while, but when i found out that i couldn't re-UV in mud, and i didn't have anything that used Ptex, so that was useless, and i couldn't create basic low res geo in mud like you can in Z, i left mudbox behind.
Now, if they followed Epic's example with this monthly subscription thing, and allowed us to continue using the software if the payments stopped, and just denied access to updates/upgrades, instead of locking out the software all together, then yes, i'd consider using the rental plans, but right now, i won't even touch the Maya LT plan at 45£ a month.
I heard modo had stability issues worse than Max/Maya, but I don't see a lot of people blame Foundry/Luxology.
This is true, but, i remember someone on the zbrush central forums saying that Pixo are, apparently, working on the texture pipeline for the next release, not sure if that's true.
Sadly, i'll still be giving mudbox a miss, even at $10/month, the fact that, if i have to stop the payments for what ever reason, i'd lose access to the software (which is why i refuse to use Creative Cloud), and that right there is a deal breaker.
I would love to see an update where the painting tools rivaled Mud or 3DC, not sure how they'd go about it but very interested to see :O
This is so true
Was a huge fan of the original Skymatter Mudbox, but ever since AD took over its just been one disappointing release after another.
It's because they aren't innovating. That's why Zbrush is so awesome. New amazing features with every release (though they are missing a few things they really ought not be missing)
Forgot to said that new group layers at paint room for i/o to photoshop is great.
only recently got 3d coat am liking it so far any suggestions for tutorials and the like?
my workflow is going more towards max, xnormals, Zbrush when sculptings required and 3d coat (only been using it for topology so far but want to move into texture painting as apparently its quite powerful) im interested in learning all aspects though
These days apps have pretty decent sculpting and texture painting tools integrated (Modo, C4D...) and you want more advanced stuff you would go for apps like ZBrush, Mari...
And then there is Artisan stuff in Maya which is not even basic and they tend to advertise it (or used to) as something super awesome. Sure it was super amazing 10 years ago :P