Hehe totally Sage, I see what you mean (didn't want to sound like an angry ass btw, sorry if I did :P ) The thing I like about Max is that one can still work 'stack free' by simply not piling up modifers and staying inside the basic edit poly mode - no need to turn stacking off for that (don't think such thing is possible…
I was hoping you were sarcastic when you said: 1) The listener is a PoS, it works like crap. I wonder what sort of scripts you were writing if it gave you something useful- for anything beyond a very introductory level, it simply does not work correctly if at all. 2) Again, you are very lucky if you rarely run into…
Acutally the magic box trick seems to work in in Maya, Max and XSI and they all have to deal with the xform complex. With XSI and Maya there are a few more annoying things though because the freaking program records every movement you do to the damn object. Move vert one, and it keeps growing and growing and growing. I…