They count 3d Studio from MS-DOS as 3ds Max? "MAX" was the windows version. I started with kinetix's 3ds Max in windows, 1997 (but i used the ms-dos version too). We are getting old... oh man I used to use a lot Truespace and Lightwave.
I agree that that's a making a big assumption. 3Ds max was a completely different program to 3d studio. You couldn't even use a mouse in 3d Studio but max had all the modern features like a modifier stack and mouse viewport movement. I started with 3dstudio and used version 1.0 of max.
There's a few things in there that don't fit my memory of events. I amuses me that they've completely ignored max 5 despite that being the version in which RTT was introduced (it's okay though, anyone who used it would probably rather pretend it never happened) I'm pretty confident biped was there earlier than max 4 ( i'm…
Hmm... according to that history Nitrous was introduced in Max2011, is that really true? It's the last version I used and I do recall at the office we skipped several updates because nobody wanted to deal with being a beta tester for a new viewport in production. Anyway, Softimage 3D on SGI (at Uni) was my entry into the…
Wait what. We used a mouse in 3dstudio DOS. IIRC we had to do some goofy trickery with DOS memory and crap. Anyhow I started in whatever version was there in late 1991. Most memorable was moving our pipeline to the first version of Max, from DOS, and doing it mid-project, while outsourcing for Westwood on Blade Runner.…