3sdmax or 3dsmax design? what you're using

[lukx]

I'm curious ...

[dlparisi]

Design....

[glorybound]

3DS MAX Design 2011 here

[bardo]

3DS MAX Design 2011 here too

[tct70]

3ds Max for me!

[Olli96]

Design 2011

[super gnu]

max 2011.. as an aside has anyone actually benefitted from this (in my opinion totally unnecessary) split in the software? i just dont get it.. maybe autodesk thought they didnt have enough 3d packages on the market.

[rivoli]

design.. but we actually didn't pick it over standard max, it was our reseller who made the choice for us. anyway, doesn't really make any difference, so we just kept it..

[sandykoufax]

Design, even though I didn't intended.

[ghiom3d]

i have never understand the difference. So i'm staying with standard

[glorybound]

My understanding is Design has lighting analysis and standard doesn't. I am not sure of the other differences, if any.

[RE:FORM_STUDIOS]

I have found that if you have a mix of max and design, you can't send jobs to one or the other on the farm... so if you have a mix of licenses in the office, you'll need both installed on every node. Joy!

Standard max for me.

[beestee]

Standard max 2011 here.

[Bathyscaph]

Standard max. The only actual difference I know of besides lighting analysis is that the standard max comes with the SDK.

I don't see any benefit for the end user in having to choose camps between max/design. I picked regular max because I more closely fit the intended marketing niche for that product.

[wxyz]

Regular Max. Found the lighting analysis to be inaccurate.