[ QUOTE ] Well at least Maya has that nifty "autoback" feature ... oh, wait a minute ... [/ QUOTE ] Autoback is all well and good until your scene takes 2min to save. All of a sudden its not so cool. Oh and it depends on what you where trying to do while it was autosaving if max is going to crash right afterward, wee good…
I've found Maya to be more of an asshole when it comes to crashes and just having random nodes and old 'unclearable' history information attached to geometry compared to Max. I'm going to be pretty vague (without breaking NDA) about the current environment I'm working on. But there's just one bit of geometry that I've had…
I have a weird theory on why stability and quality is poor in commercial 3d apps. and its that the bulk of the purchases are made by studio admins buying large numbers of licenses. So there is little direct feedback from customer to software creator and subsequently very little consequence to the software companies for…