New releases not only bring new features, sometimes they may also throw existing features off the ship and into the water. Max users express their irritation at Reactor’s sudden disappearance from Max, and Autodesk’s lack of timing in replacing it with other tools that could offer all of its capabilities. More at Autodesk’s Area.
What happened to Reactor in 2012?
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Autodesk really dropped a bollock on this one – I can understand the reasoning but it was premature, and all the reasoning they give regarding licensing surely apply to nvidia/physx as well.
Who’s to say we won’t be in the same situation down the line, if nvidia jacked up the cost of the licence?
If they are that flakey about dropping features based on external tech, it doesn’t bode well for anything else bought in.
I think Autodesk are monopolists and have all the applications they do not care about the future of 3dmax because they have other applications like XSI and Maya.
Obviously if they had not bought their competition, 3dsmax would be much better than it is today.
It seems incredible that an application like 3dsmax can not simulate softbodies when free applications do that and much more. It is an insult to all 3dsmax users that will have to find other uses without gaps for certain jobs.
All this without mentioning the dozens of bugs and inconsistencies of the latest version. It was the worst release of all versions. Autodesk sucks
you are right. On the other side, hey, almost each version of 3dsmax has had some minor or major nuclear accident and we have survived. I have here on my bookshelf following wasted capital:
Bought with Autodesk 3dsmax 3 (or 4):
– Hypermatter (the older here will remember)
– RadioRay
– LightScape (anybody still remembers this product?)
– Combustion
… all dead.