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Re: This is the last straw with Maya.
I can't work without swiftloop. If you're going to use 2009 make sure you get polyboost. The retopology tools in polyboost are great too, its a must have. I also can't live without UV flattening scripts (wrote these myself, but there are more floating around, James Hayward, SoulBurn), rescale UV shells (MoP's Normalize… -
Re: This is the last straw with Maya.
Modeling has never been Maya's strong suite, but they finally made a number of necessarily improvements with 2012. Not everything that needed to be fixed was of course, worst probably being the bevel, but they at least solved a couple of my biggest frustrations. It may sound silly but I've stuck with Maya all these years… -
Re: This is the last straw with Maya.
I personally don't like to have to code a half of my own software, especially if the other half is not free or cheap either. Having a scripting platform is a bad excuse for not coding the basic stuff in properly. -
Re: This is the last straw with Maya.
Modo is great, but it's frustratingly different at first. Some swear by it. Max is ideal for modeling; Maya for animation. Most artists don't care how "powerful" a given scripting language is. That's all there is to it, really. -
Re: This is the last straw with Maya.
100% agree. i've tried a few different packages over the years but always come back to max. max + scripts and your own personal tweaks is awesome. i'm enjoying nitrous in 2012 and new UV tools alot, even graphite tools and ribbon seem to work better than 2010/2011. -
Re: This is the last straw with Maya.
You could also take a very different approach and focus more on "dirtmodelling" first to get shapes right (using sculpting, primitives, whatever works) and then only later do a retopo pass. This is very well suited to some types of hard surface modelling - say, "organico-mechanical" stuff. For pure subdivision modelling I…
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