3ds max 2018 will ship with Arnold in place of Mental Ray

[mitviz]

I wonder what is the point of "3sdmax ideas" https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-ideas/idb-p/164 forum if nothing was done from all those posted ideas during this year ?!

me too, i wonder the same all the time, i would rather they work on the requests each year than add anything new, the requests i think are the most important things that should be added first before anything no one asked for

[Shimakaze]

Updated state sets sounds great, everything else seems like fluff...

[rikou]

For all those who were still hope ! do you believe it ? Yes !! max 2018 !!
So pathetic...

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

this trend is quite likely to rule for the next 3 years ...i am thinking their aim is to get most of the users on maintenance to cancel

[zeronove]

this trend is quite likely to rule for the next 3 years ...i am thinking their aim is to get most of the users on maintenance to cancel

I think so

[SteveC]

this trend is quite likely to rule for the next 3 years ...i am thinking their aim is to get most of the users on maintenance to cancel

Well, it's working, I cancelled my maintenance, but I'm not going to take them up on their subscription offer either, they can go shit for it.

[Alex_M]

some one posted this for max 2018
http://imgur.com/a/tcrrY[ATTACH=CONFIG]37584[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]37585[/ATTACH]

WHAT THE ...

I wanna cry.

[rikou]

Well, it's working, I cancelled my maintenance, but I'm not going to take them up on their subscription offer either, they can go shit for it.

That's what we would have to do today because there is clearly no future with max

[Steve_Green]

this trend is quite likely to rule for the next 3 years ...i am thinking their aim is to get most of the users on maintenance to cancel

I'm not sure it is their aim (if indeed they have one, rather than blundering around), what would the point be?

People who cancel aren't going to switch to rental, and the poor updates would just reinforce the terrible deal that rental is, where the user is a hostage to whatever feeble updates Autodesk doles out.

[SteveC]

I'm not sure it is their aim (if indeed they have one, rather than blundering around), what would the point be?

People who cancel aren't going to switch to rental, and the poor updates would just reinforce the terrible deal that rental is, where the user is a hostage to whatever feeble updates Autodesk doles out.

Completely agree

[Ihno]

People who cancel aren't going to switch to rental.

I heard of people who noped out a few years back. And than had to switch to the rental license afterwards because they couldn't get their jobs done with their software of choice.
I'd do it very, very slowly. First learn the basics than start to do some smaller projects with your new software and only if you start doing everything in it cancel the AD subscription.
I think it takes at least two years.

[mitviz]

Blender!!!

[andybot_cg]

I heard of people who noped out a few years back. And than had to switch to the rental license afterwards because they couldn't get their jobs done with their software of choice.
I'd do it very, very slowly. First learn the basics than start to do some smaller projects with your new software and only if you start doing everything in it cancel the AD subscription.
I think it takes at least two years.

I was thinking about this, and you've said it well. It took me about a year to really get comfortable with Blender and I felt like I had some mastery, and my use of it is just fairly straightforward arch-viz. It's also a bit of an unknown what stumbling blocks or worse, dead-ends you may encounter. Though I find with Blender that anything I can think of wanting to do, someone has already figured out a way, and there's some pretty amazing plugins available to help out. It's also an incredibly stable and fast piece of software.

By the way, it's not clear how soon we'll see real-time integration for the Vray-Blender pipeline. Been promised for years, I keep hoping it's just around the corner

[Alex_M]

Blender!!!

I just tried the beta of 2.8 (download here). I see that it now has the 2-axis translation handles on the gizmo (no more shift+click on the arrows)! Proper layer manager with nesting is also added!



This makes it a lot more user friendly than before, at least for me. Looking forward to the final release! Actually, I've been donating to Blender Foundation for a few months in a row now and I feel good about it! Now if they add colored wireframes I might be on my way out of Max.

[mitviz]

I was thinking about this, and you've said it well. It took me about a year to really get comfortable with Blender and I felt like I had some mastery, and my use of it is just fairly straightforward arch-viz. It's also a bit of an unknown what stumbling blocks or worse, dead-ends you may encounter. Though I find with Blender that anything I can think of wanting to do, someone has already figured out a way, and there's some pretty amazing plugins available to help out. It's also an incredibly stable and fast piece of software.

By the way, it's not clear how soon we'll see real-time integration for the Vray-Blender pipeline. Been promised for years, I keep hoping it's just around the corner

problem is people like chaosgroup who don't want to update vray etc for those softwares, many others, they are staying away from the free package which i think is a mistake, alot of freelancers use it and less money they spends on max and maya etc more money they will have to buy plugins