Hello guys,
Any idea about Max 2008 release date ?
Best regards.
well, from past experience i’d say octoberish. because for the last few years I’ve tended to have it sitting around for weeks before i get all that junk installed during the xmas break while everyone is out 
ya, i heard it’s october as well
Seriously. As a rule, our firm doesn’t upgrade until SP2 is released, which is usually January/February. It takes Autodesk at least that long to fix everything they’ve managed to break with the new release. And it’s never anything I look forward to -- max 8 to 9x64 was the most painful upgrade we’ve had yet.
Shaun
October…
Very close…
October 17th to be precise.
Wow …
very precise
Does Max 9 x64 work now? I am thinking of upgrading to that first. Or should I just go right to 2008? I’ve been postponing 9x64 for months now, and now they are releasing a new version only 10 months after they released their last broken version.
Hello…
Way for 2008 sp1 before switching…
Are you a beta tester? I’m just wondering how broken 2008 is. Could it be worse than 9?
No,
but we had so many trouble with Max 9 Sp2 64bits that we switch to Max 8 SP3 
Best regards…
Thats where we stayed, and I am very happy: Max 8.3, Vray 1.5 RC2
But I’m starting to fall behind in terms of 3d libraries, materials, tutorials, etc. I sometime receive models from other viz companies, and I am starting to receive Max 9 models. It sucks to have to ask them to send it by as 3DS because we haven’t upgraded yet.
I understand
But i’ll wait for 2008 then I’ll test it with a simple work then we’ll make a choise…
Clifton,
I can’t get Max 9 64 bit to import AutoCAD 2008 files at all. I can’t import them or link to them with the filelink manager. There are loads of posts on the Area forum about it but no solutions as far as I can see. Unless anyone here has got it working…
Wow. I justed checked out the Area forum. Thats the official autodesk forum? The administrators only have like 20 posts! Ridiculous!
I remember there was some autodesk discussion forum, but it wasn’t any better. I’ll just keep coming here I learn more about Max from Chaosgroup than from Autodesk…
Impressive
Yeah, the admins rather like to keep their heads down on there.
The Area just changed so all the post counts reset. They haven’t imported the old posts yet. It’s just archived somewhere else. They are actually being pretty active right now, probably just trying to promote the new format.
As far as Max 2008, I don’t think you’ll have to wait for a service pack if you are already using max 9 productivity booster and are happy with it. I saw the demo and it pretty much looks like it’s exactly the same thing. They said they didn’t change anything as far as plugins go, so they’ll all be compatible, which tells me all they probably did was add a couple little features and call it a release. I hate this new idea that you have to charge everyone yearly for a “new” release. They are only giving us a couple new tools each time, most of which barely even work.
I would much rather them concentrate on smaller features that aren’t as marketable, but would make users happier in the long run, like figuring out bugs, making things more useable. Small things like having an unhide preview, or being able to navigate the scene while you are creating an array or bone system. Getting rid of reactor and switching it with Maya’s system that they now own. lol
Ok, so that last one probably won’t happen 
but it sure would be nice.
I wish they would pay more attention to useability though. It’s ok to change things. The old farts will complain about the change for a while because they don’t like people changing their workflow, but if it’s better then they’ll quiet down after a while.
I guess that’s more than my two cents, but I’d really like to see some changes in their business plan.
Collada!
Well, Max9 x64 productivity booster + Acad2008 x64 on our firm and no problems whatsoever importing?
The only thing I miss was the ability to import directly images in acad as planes + bitmap in max automatically that seems to have disappeared :?
also in a long time I think it’s one of the quickest and stable combination for importing large cad drawings,
anyone still experiencing slowdowns in max material library with vray (x64) (thats another issue that I’ve thought that was to be resolved with 1.5 final?) I can’t seem to find that post