buying max 6?

rooster

I'm currently in a competition called dare to be digital, where 8 teams compete over 9 weeks to create a game. We're lumbered with max 5 at the moment, and numerous bugs and improvements in later max versions are making us long for an upgrade.
Unfortunately the version of renderware we are using isn't compatible with max 7, so we really want max 6. The problem is finding somewhere to buy it as everywhere we've looked seems to be selling max 7.. Any advice on where to get 2 (legal) copies of max 6 (fairly) soonish would be much appreciated!

CrazyButcher

have you asked the resellers ?
often they wont put it on the list but its still available

I was able to upgrade my max to a non-recent version just fine

AstroZombie

Might look at ebay as well, just make sure that you don't bid on an upgrade instead of the full version.

MoP

To be honest I wouldn't really trust buying Max off eBay, it's likely to be dodgy... unless they have real photos of the actual box and stuff.

Renderware and Dare, eh? What sort of game are you making?

lkraan

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Might look at ebay as well, just make sure that you don't bid on an upgrade instead of the full version.

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This actually isn't legal since you cannot resell 3ds max. I asked around about that the other day because I were able to buy a used 3ds max licence for very little
It forbids resale very clear in the EULA.
Silly rule.

rooster

what is the connection between legal and EULA though? is it 100% binding?

mop: we're making a fish game, kind of a virtual pet aquarium except with a lot more depth than say catz and dogz.. the focus is on genetics and customising fish through breeding, and giving them simple sims like interactions

MoP

I don't think the EULA is 100% binding, if I remember right, someone like KDR_11k (who seems to know this stuff) said that most EULA decrees are overridden by European law (and I guess UK too).

If he glances at this thread, he might be able to shed some more light on this...

Breeding stuff sounds pretty cool, rooster... I'll be interested to see how the final game turns out! Hope it's better than... Demon Lore!

rooster

hehe me too, but to be fair I believe they only had one 2nd year artist with little animation experience, and coded it from scratch. seeing how difficult it is just to use an SDK like renderware let alone from scratch, I definately appreciate their work a little more from this point of view . You start with big grand ideas, then you see that 'simple' alpha transparency is causing sorting errors.. its constant compramise

MoP

Aye, true... me and my brother used to code little games a few years back though (he's 2 years older than me), and between us in a few weeks we sometimes had stuff that looked and worked better than that... eh, what do i know. I guess if I decide to do Dare next summer, i'll see

It was Sarah Deas who did the art for that, right? Pretty impressive for a 2nd year, for sure. I thought the animation was fine, the models were pretty good too, it was just the texturing that let it down now and then - I had a look at some of the flats, and ... wow ... i'm guessing nobody gets taught how to UV-map?

rooster

heh nope we never once recieved that lesson.. pretty big oversight!

diZzyWalnut

I dont know what You think about that ?
http://www.etanet.biz/catalog/index.html

You can save 69% de price for 3DS MAX 7.5. ( I know You're looking for version 6 , but ...)
960 $ instead 3.145 $

...is it legal ?