3DS Max 2018.4 released bringing improvements to fluids and Max Interactive

You are right with that, we are looking exactly into this, I´ll post my findings at some point, blender you can already do mocap, and there are easy rigs that are pretty capable, even more than biped, the only thing are the tools to handle the mocap data, we are used to use Motion Builder, but we are looking into alternatives, as I said, I´ll publish my findings in this regard 🙂

Cheers!

Do you think CAT is fully working?
Do you think MassFX is fully working?
Apart is it compatible with the new bifrost?
Do you think the new Bifrost is fully working?
Do you think the mental Ray implementation that we had before was fully working?
Do you think the crowd tool inside max (forgot it´s name) is fully working?

And we can go one aaaaaaall day if you want…

Cheers.

So you agree that max is composed of half working tools and now you are comparing it to blender which is free !

Can yo name them please?
Blender tools are not advertised with features they cannot deliver, for example, the fluid simulator has clearly stablished limits, hence you cannot assume it´s a half working tool, it´s a feature limited tool.

The difference here is that you can properly apply the tools you need for the projects you need, you don´t have to start a project with your toolset in mind to find out after some research and project executed that you eed X or Y plugin to complete it because Particle Flow is not working as expected, or because mental ray does not have volumes even when it should, or because scene states and the render layers are broken and crashing max every minute, or because CAT is not working as expected and it´s crashing also every minute… or a long list of etc…

Please tell me what are those “half baked” tools that are not working as expected in Blender.

Do you want me to name the worst thing in Blender IMHO, the particle system, is obsolete, it´s perfectly working, is predictable, it´s physics are corrrect and it has an SPH solver since ages, but it has very few tools to control it… do anyone says it´s a fully fledged particle system? NO! because it´s not, and you won´t see anyone telling you the contrary, on the other hand, theoretically particle flow is one of the most powerful systems, but it does not work as expected most of the time, it´s pysics are unstable, and well… people go over to thinking particles for a reason… ir well, better Houdini of course.

Max is full of theoretically fully fledged tools that are replaced with plugins as soon as you start to use them in prouction… does this happen with Blender? NOT AT ALL!

It´s been a while since we made the shift, and I can say with toal confidence that Blender is giving me much better results than max, and man… I was a max fanboy, I even have an “I´m Max” video in youtube that I made for Autodesk, I know max to the bones, and I´m a lot happier with Blender, this is one fo the few cases that you are happier in the other side of the fence and you don´t look back.

Cheers!

I did not say that Max crash a lot, I say that max is filled with half working tools, and I asked some questions to you regarding your assumption that Blender is filled with half working tools.

I also had very successful projects using 3ds max, why not? but how many plugins do you use? do you use Particle Flow or do you use a different plugin not included with max? do you use CAT or do you use some different plugin, or do you animate in maya or other package? do you use scene states to divide your scenes in render layers or do you use some other render layer plugin out there? and how do you simulate fluids when you need to?

Of course if you just model and render arch/viz, do very few animation and that´s it, then you may not need plugins… oh well, now you need network rendering licenses if you use Arnold… but maybe you weren´t using mental ray because you use a third party rendering solution.

My time is not wasted here because I pursue several targets:

1.- Counter fight the licensing madness of SAAS to help people scape of markting material that is not telling the truth or that is convincing new artists and people to enter in this madness.
(wich BTW a software installed in your computer is not a service, maybe the bugfixing and new features, but you don´t pay for that, you pay for the software because it´s rental…)

2.- After making the switch I´m so happy, and I´ve been a memeber of cgpress community for so long that I want to share my experience to help people to investigate further and shift to other solutions that don´t enter in all this SAAS madness and that can help them complete their projects in the same time or even better time, as better economic solutions and not like if they were cows made for milking since all this SAAS is planned to keep your work as hostage, or you pay or you don´t access your work anymore…

3.- Also, talking specifically about Blender, I want to help people overcome the idea that since Blender is open source and it´s free it means that it´s an uncapable software that don´t have support and that cannot handle big professional projects, wich in reality is just the contrary because blender is evolving inside productions were artists and programmers work together, that means that the tools are much better designed, with no “investor” targets in mind, with no marketing language designed to make you belive something that is not as sold, etc… it´s just software made by programmers ann artists for artists (and whoever is a programmer can also enjoy developing for it)

I hope all this answer your question, and brace your self… I´ll keep coming here, I´ve been here since the first ages of maxunderground and I´ll keep coming back every time the situation requires some ping back to the communitty, feel free to ignore my comments, but if this help someone to clarify their mind and choose C4D over Autodesk, or Houdini or Modo or any other package, or specifically Blender, then I´ll be happy and I know people would be happy, specially their pockets.

When the time comes that you don´t have a package installed in your computer and you can´t access your software online without paying and the paycheck of artists gets reduced because this type of costs, will see if people is still happy with Autodesk (the few they are right now), and that will come, just like Rental only came after Autodesk said “we won´t shift to rental only”, after that they acknowledged that they were planning this “cloud” change for years, and their latest goal, by words of their CEO´s, are that their target is to remove desktop software and use only cloud accessed software, some big companies may ignore this and may not affect them, but if you are a small artist, a medium studio or a self produced studio… then you will be hit as well, and we´ll see if you are happy then.

Until then… keep asking me why I keep coming here and be happy with Autodesk 🙂

Cheers!