Service packs are key for Max 9, I could've told you that before you started: Vista came out after Max 9, so they fixed compatibility with an SP. Transparent thing might be videocard drivers. Maybe try OpenGL mode ?
Rhinocentaur model, possibly my favourite personal project yet! It was a blast to work on it, from researching the centaurs to learn there are tons of sub species of centaurs to writing a small background headcanon lore for the Tribe it is from.
I'm talking from my experience. Previously i had same issue when my model looks absolutly fine in SP but in other software some parts was looking skewed and any triangulation wasn't helping at all. UVs is skewed and it's should be fixed at first.
dunno about marmo , I dont use it to bake stuff, but in substance painter you can simply use a snapshot of the 2d window in material mode. So if those textures you are working with are coming from SP, than just ditch marmo and export it from there.
This is entirely something that you have to decide yourself. It's often a trade-off and per-asset based. There are pros and cons to both. But don't forget that you can paint your details in SP, export the new NM, and when you reimport it it will pick up the new details.
The differece in power with the pistol between SP and MP is quite annoying. Also, wtf is up with the shotgun in DM? It seems like it randomly does crits - I'll unload a whole set into a guy at close range, still alive, he fires one shot and I'm gibs.
http://kotaku.com/5487257/the-case-of-the-indie-devs-and-the-medical-marijuana-mixup Holy shit, you guys are famous! Great press too, heh. You should have told us your company is housed next to a pot dispencery (sp?), that shit's totally OG.
Actually, I think Trauma Studios was a fully functioning studio *before* DICE bought them. Frank deLise (sp?) was programming other programs before hand and found funding that way. Clever, but its unfortunate to have their hopes given up so fast like that.
Eko is definatly badass. micheals a git, i prefer him as Lacoutio (SP) in Romeo and Juliet. hurley definatly wont loose weight in season 3 as ai saw an interview with him (he was talking about just finishing filming it) and he was still a bit heavy
rooster: I think that's what Greg Costikyan (sp?) was saying but he also said there has to be some platform for spreading that shareware, it's inefficient for both the maker and the customer if each game is available only on its own site and you never learn about some of them.