3ds max alternatives?

[glorybound]

Autodesk has 123D, which is their answer to Sketch-Up. They could have purchased it, just to shut it down.

What makes me scratch my head is that google sold Sketchup and it wasn't Autodesk that bought it !!!

[Morne]

Some more votes for Vray for modo?

yes +1 from me

[suurland]

+1 for me too.. been seriously thinking about learning modo or c4d.. max is just get worse and worse, i miss max9 so much.

/Thomas

[Horizon]

yes +1 from me

Vray for modo!

Been using modo for years. I model everything in modo and then bring into max just to use vray. I would LOVE to stay in modo the whole way through.

[andybot_cg]

Hey all! I'd suggest looking at vray for blender. I've been using vray for Sketchup for a few years, but recently been learning Blender and have bought the vray standalone. There is a ton more functionality similar to Max as compared to some serious limitations in Sketchup. If you want to do animation in SU, don't bother. However, for still images, nothing faster than SU and vray though. Well, you need to add in photoshop because you can't do decent 3D plants in SU.

Andy

[samuel_bubat]

We´re also pretty much fed up with direction 3dsmax is going.
In my opinion there is only one way to make Autodesk rethink.
Cancel your subscriptions. If enough users would do so, there might
be a chance. But it´s unlikely to happen.

In the long term we´re trying to get away from anything labled Autodesk.
But I don´t really see a software that is a 100% replacement for 3dsmax, yet !

Vlado, what needs to happen that Chaosgroup would start a fullscale 3d Application ?
I mean seriously if a 3D Application from Chaosgroup would have just half the quality of Vray
it would still be 10 times better than 3dsmax. Come on, drink two bottles of wine and think about it
You can do it !

[RE:FORM_STUDIOS]

It would be nice. Perhaps if funding is the problem we can put are wallets where our mouths are and crowd-fund development...

[kimgar]

Vlado, what needs to happen that Chaosgroup would start a fullscale 3d Application ?

ohhoohohho, dont't tease

chaosstudio at kickstarter.com, i'm already throwing money at the screen

[andybot_cg]

Vlado, what needs to happen that Chaosgroup would start a fullscale 3d Application ?
I mean seriously if a 3D Application from Chaosgroup would have just half the quality of Vray
it would still be 10 times better than 3dsmax. Come on, drink two bottles of wine and think about it
You can do it !

LOL! I would beg to differ. Look at the amount of 3rd party packages that make Max work. Look at how long and what effort it took to develop Blender. Look at examples of other rendering app "studios" like for example Thea and Maxwell. Why divert resources and energy from making such a good all-around plugin such as vray. I say work on "vray for modo" 1st. IMHO...

[pixela]

I wonder what Discreet (3dsmax before Autodesk) guys are doing.
Maybe they can make a software.

[Morne]

I wonder what Discreet (3dsmax before Autodesk) guys are doing.
Maybe they can make a software.

Wasn't Discreet and Kinetix, just divisions of Autodesk way back?

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Chaos starting their own max app? Where can I send money ?

[Franx]

Wasn't Discreet and Kinetix, just divisions of Autodesk way back?

Discreet Logic was a Montreal company that made Flame, Inferno, Smoke, Edit etc (founded by a Softimage ex-employee) and was bought by AD in '98. Kinetix was a division of AD under which Max, Lightscape, CharacterStudio (and perhaps Viz) were placed under. When Discreet Logic was acquired, all those apps went under the Discreet moniker, and afterward AM&E.

[pixela]

So if Autodesk bought Discreet in 98, does this mean the versions before max9 were again from autodesk?

[lukx]

who remembers tutorial videos that came with max from Kinetix ? The butterflies that fly through window with volumetric light. those were the times I'm going to my corner to cry now how old I got