Our studio is at the right place in our schedule to upgrade Max. We've been using 2009, but we need at least 2010 so we can use the latest FBX (2009 iasn't supported any more). I'm curious about others' experiences with the latest release. 2012 is on its 2nd service pack... does it seem fairly solid, or is it worse than…
I have bought the Student Version of 2010(Max,Maya,XSI and so on) and the downloadable ones of 2012 you can get at students.autodesk neither has watermarks.
This is really good feedback as am debating to get the educational license of Max 2012. Does anyone here use it and if so, do you get a banner inserted in your renders? I read somewhere that the educational version (3 year license) does that.....:poly122:
2012 all the way, now that they've fixed all of the major bugs like the UVW editor lagging out. Like everyone else, I really like nitrous and I love the retopo tools PhysX is pretty awesome too and is set up in a way to actually help game artists instead of past physics systems (looking at you reactor). However there are…