I don't understand how you can even pose that scenario. 'If Obama were white would Colin Powell have endorsed him?' Like how the hell can you possibly ask that question? If Blender and Max were entirely different apps, would these people feel the same? How can that possibly have an answer that makes it even worth asking?…
Is it legal, yea Autodesk passed the Gmax Torch to TurboSquid, I'm pretty sure it's all mentioned in a Autodesk Press release, or on the TubroSquid Gmax Page, if not it should be on the wikipeida page for Gmax. Autodesk dropped support for it but they never killed it and tried to wipe it off the face of the earth. It's…
A valid concern. Of course, in the case of Autodesk, they were purchasing a direct competitor who was producing a directly competing product to Autodesk's own software package. With that buyout Autodesk's true motivation was entirely transparent. Anyone who thought otherwise was kidding themselves. This purchase came out…
This is true, but I'm seeing more and more of the foundry eyeing that market share that autodesk has. They seem to be positioning themselves to take on autodesk. Mari seems to be used quite a bit in film and commericals/anything prerendered. I'm honestly hoping to see some fierce competition between these two companies in…
there are quite a few reports out there on various graphical and performance glitches and incompatibilities between certain osx and maya releases preventing one from even starting maya in some cases. from what i recall the maya-port has always been a bit of a troubled one throughout the years and apple radically changing…
So, going off the news post I proceeded to download the Hotfix 4 update for Max 2011 released by Autodesk which supposedly fixes normal maps in viewports. I wasn't completely convinced, so I did some comparisons. At first I couldn't get it to work, but then I noticed there's an extra step you have to take according to the…
Excuse my language for this one people: NO FUCKING WAY! Can anyone tell me if Skin tool is working correctly? The vertices of a model which has Skin on, cannot be edited if you have the Weight Tool pop-up open. It's a model that was Skin rigged in Max 2011 BTW, no plugins, CAT. The Weight-Paints are fine. Because if that…
there was a .pdf floating around on the area sometime about detailing the 'new' features for 2010. but truly there was really nothing except the integration of Toxic and that camera match moving thing which name I forget. Maya 2010 was actually dubbed 'repackaged 2009'. Most of the videos on the autodesk site actually are…
You don't need 3DS Max to live, you could choose to use free alternatives like Blender(which would be more then enough to do any game modelling, uv'ing, rigging or animation that I know of). I'm not saying that everyone should give up using 3Ds Max because its a major investment that most of us can't afford, I'm just…
Solved. I ended up needing to start by installing mental ray for EX2, then go to C:\Autodesk\setup.exe. NOW you can install mental ray for EXT2-SP2. Next you'll need to go to the new folder C:\Program files\Autodesk\mentalrayForMaya2016.5\plug-ins and copy the Mayatomr.mll Now go to…