@Abidus: Grats on finishing! @iadagraca: For realtime rendering I use marmoset, unity, and or unreal engine 4. Try this for blender. Blender settings: Image used:
if using max the best smd tools are these http://wallworm.com/projects/utilities/docs/ http://www.wunderboy.org/ in the case of blender there is http://code.google.com/p/blender-smd/
Yes, profiles for the MX1000 would rock, I can't remap the hotkeys in Blender and don't want to reconfigure the mouse between playing games and using Blender...
I think you would have a better chance of having an answer for that on the blender megathread. http://polycount.com/discussion/72805/blender-mega-thread#latest