which do you use- max9? max2008? max2009?

[giraffe]

and happy with it ?

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

max 9 and not really happy with it...will have to try to upgrade to 2009 and buy the damn subscription and pray that they gonna do some sort of miracle with their next version

[jonnybefree]

2008, and nearly happy with it.
havn't found a big reason for switching to 2009 yet.

[m_hinks]

2008, and nearly happy with it.
havn't found a big reason for switching to 2009 yet.

Same, happy to stay put for now

[tricky]

We've just had our reminder through to pay for the subscription renewals. Really not sure what to do this time. We are on Max 2009 64bit, AutoDesk Architecture 2009 and good old Vray 1.5 SP2. I honestly don't see the point in upgrading as we don't really use any of the 'high-end' featureset of Max (or ADT for that matter), and one of the main reasons we went to Max 2009 (from Max9 32bit) was to keep current with the latest versions of Vray.

It really is a dilemma.

[sea2stars]

Max 2008 and ok with it; though IT keeps asking why I don't use the 2009 copy that came in.

[beestee]

We use Max Design 2009 and are content with it. The transition took a while for us to get used to, but things are running pretty smoothly now.

We've just had our reminder through to pay for the subscription renewals. Really not sure what to do this time.

1. Figure out how much an upgrade will cost vs continued subscription cost.

2. Figure out how many realeases you would have to wait for the money you would save on cancelling subsctiption to pay for an upgrade.

3. Determine whether or not you will be able to wait that long to forgoe any possible updates and new features.

My suggestion would be to go one more round with your subscription to see what autodesk is planning for this whole Max Design idea.

[glorybound]

Software

3DS MAX Design 2009. I don't know anything else so I have nothing to compare it with. I did do several days worth of training on lynda.com and now that I know what I am doing, after 10 years, things got a whole lot easier.

[s0real]

just switched over to max design 2009 from viz 2008.
bit too early to tell yet how much time it's going to take to get used to...

[Da_elf]

ok ok ok. dont laugh at me. im using max8

[rmejia]

2009 - Because I'm on subscription, and tend to think newer is better (unless we're talking about compatibility, where older is better )

[skogskalle]

Im still using MAX 9... ive got both 2008 and 2009 sitting on a shelf beside me but Ive just never gotten around to installing them

Are there any new great improvements in the latest versions that makes them worth installing? Ive read about splinemapping and I can see that could be really useful, but other than that - what am I missing?

[Codi]

We have 2008 and 2009 here too but we use Max9 on production.

Splinemap is pretty cool, on our last project I did map a road in 2009 and exported back to Max9 just to use splinemapping, thats all I've used from Max 2009 so far...
I use 2008 only for scripting, MUCH better environnement than older versions.

[Morne]

2009
bugs in hair and fur driving me nuts
otherwise no worries

[giraffe]

thanks for replies
@codi: why u specially use max9 for production? is more stable than 2008 and 2009 ?