3dsmax alternative.

[Alex_M]

Blender does have a modifier stack with a lot of modifiers to choose from. It's pretty much like Max. However it doesn't have the feature of saving a snapshot of the mesh in the stack as in Max via an edit poly/edit mesh modifier. I heard that there's an addon that kind of provides a similar thing. Another workaround is to keep copies of your meshes in a separate hidden layer.

Houdini also has a stack. It's actually node based rather than a stack. I'm not sure how good Houdini is at archvis though. I've not seen a lot of this type of work done with it but I read somewhere that they are going to be making their software a bit more general purpose and not so VFX focused so to speak so with the next versions things might be changing for Houdini.

[gandhics]

Houdini sounds good as long as you don't have revenue more than $100,000 which include any expenses and taxes. Revenue less than $100,000 is kinda same as working at home alone at around $40/hr as net income.

$4,495 + $2,495/year is not something I can afford.
If you want floating, it is $6,995 + $4,995/year.