It's just not as good in a professional environment. Well, not in my line of work anyway, I can't speak for the games industry. There's no other render engine that comes close to mentalRay (other than VRay and to a certain extent Maxwell) for Arch-Vis, and Max's handling of DWG/DWF files is rock solid, which unfortunately…
Yep. This is the problem. I currently work in architectural visualisation and as much as I would love to switch to an alternative package, it's just so difficult when Autodesk have had such a stronghold for so long. I mean, sure I could switch to Modo, or Cinema4D but then I lose mentalRay, all of the associated plugins,…