I'm getting to that point where I need to get a new copy of max, but now they have that subscription system that is $1500 per year (ouch). It was painful enough to pay $3500 for max so many years ago, but I think I got my value out of my copy of max 9! Looking for a low cost or free alternative to 3ds Max. But my biggest…
the thing with maya is though that if the OP is not a fan of subscriptions then price-wise it's in the same league as max. plus, if you have a preference for max and used it for 17 years (!) - then the modifier stack is most likely part of the reason - which is something maya doesn't have at all.
Since it seems like you'd rather not switch and you say you got your money's worth out of Max 9, you could also try to get your hands on a used copy of the last perpetual version of 3ds Max (2016?). Probably not easy to find, especially now, and you would have to explore the legal side of things, which includes getting…
There are no 3D apps that are complete carbon copies of 3DSMax, like you seem to be asking for. For general purpose 3D apps these days you basically only have 4 options other then Max: Maya - The only 3D app with comparable market share to 3DSMax. Powerful, especially when it comes to animation, but no modifier stack…
blender might be an option: rather affordable ;) - leaving plenty of budget to pick up some addons. can be set up pretty much any way you'd want to (knowing a bit of python helps though - as does throwing away the defaults), it has a modifier stack - although by far not as deep as max's - and even comes with…
I've been using max since it came out so I understand where you're coming from .. I've been using maya for over a decade and it still drives me mad. Modo is basically maya but less irritating and less fully featured. Houdini is not for modelling, it's for doing stuff. If I switched my main app itd be to blender. The only…
I was using Max for 3 years, now i'm moving slowly to Maya. Omg what a pain. I'm not saying that Maya is better or worse, it just works different. Even if you know modeling techniques making a model took me a lot more time in the beggining before i used to similar tools. Example: in Maya there is no bevel tool, there is…