3d studio

I do, check out my wacko-matic for wallpapers

accually, whydo you ask?

hey... I use it but it is the way old version. Mostly for Architecture work and animation. I am going to put it to use for some wallpaper (animated wallpaper for DX too!!!) making soon.

but yeah... why do you ask??? got a plan???

because i looked at it online at discreets website and it is quite expensive... i was wandering if it is worht buying . i'm starting college and i'm taking computer graphics and animation and i was wandering if it was really worth the money

I'm taking 3ds Max classes, its awsome software, but not worht the cash to just make wall paper.

Version 5 of 3ds Max is due out this fall. Editable Meshes will no longer be needed and version 5 will automaticaly patch holes on the polygons. I am hearing version 5 will rock......

I've got 3

get it, but don't buy it if you know what i mean...
hint hint kazaa hint hint

Hey, Vanilla, thanks for the hint.
I also need a new car but I don't have the cash for it. Do you know where I can get a stolen one?

Go to the car park on Staunton Island. There are lots to choose from there. The best ones are on the top level though and there is a good jump for getting insane bonuses.

Oops. Sorry. Wrong Messageboard.

/me runs back to the GTA3 messageboard.

no i don't steal. i just copy. nobody is losing money by me downloading games or apps cause i wouldn't buy them in the first place.

Oh sorry.
Anybody knows where I can get a Porshe without paying for it? It's not theft since I would never buy the Porshe in the first place...

Don't try to give yourself a good conscience Vanilla. As your mom probably told you years ago: taking without paying is THEFT. Don't kid yourself.

i use Hash's ANimation:Master, good solution, speedly, quality renders, incredible animation options, lots off addons (fur, particles, fisics, radiosity, the BEST cel shader on the market), good deliverance times if you purchase (4 days Canada-Spain!!!!!!)...
... and the most important reason: IT'S VERY ECONOMICAL.
Other great solution is Caligary TrueSpace (now in Version 6).
Try also OpenFX, it's free

Sure, MAX is AWESOME, but it's way too expensive, especially if you're a college student and your dad isn't George Bush Sr.

I've never used OpenFX, but it does look pretty dang good. Check it out here: http://openfx.org/news/index.php

Dig around share/freeware sites. There's some pretty nice renderers there. They may lack the polish and advanced features of MAX, but they're a great starting point

it's nothing like stealing a porsche cause i'm not taking away from anyone. for example i downloaded flash mx just to make one intro for my website which gets about 15 hits a day. the program is what, $300? now, i would never pay for that just to do that, but let's say someone has a business site and is getting tons of hits and making money from their site and they put the flash to good use, then yeah they should buy it. same thing for all the other stuff i have which is ridiculously overpriced, but i hardly ever use.

heads down! incoming!!

there's a lot of solutions for any graphics programs: For 3D there's free programs like OpenFX or 3dCanvas and others (including a Terrain Renderer like Terragen!!!!)
For photoretouching there's The GIMP and others
In sharewarte (low pricing), there's thopusands of solutions around the web. I use Swish for creating Flash animations and effects (i don't need to pay lots of money only for making some animations to my web, when Swish are excellent!!
miguellito: wich programs do you use for create this site?

*Sigh*
So rich people should buy their Porshe, but if I don't have a lot of money and I only want to go 5 blocks away, then OK I can steal the Porshe. Gotcha.

As Carlitus said, there are always cheaper solutions when you can't affort the expensive way. Heck, there are even some free solutions too. Go to Flashkit.com and check out the FlashTyper. You can create a Flash text animation with a bunch of different really cool animations for free.

well like i said about three times it's nothing like staeling a porsche cause i aint stealing anything. i wouldn't goto someone's house and still their copy of a program, but if they burnt me a copy then that's fine. people blow warez all out of proportion, like them saying that the gaming industry loses so many billions of dollars a year due to warez, but actually most people who downloaded or copied those games would never have bought them in the first place. if i bought all the games i downloaded i'd be blowing $100s of dollars each month and usually it turns out that either a)my computer sucks too bad to even play the game, or that the game sucks and i just delete it.

and yeah there are freeware or shareware programs that can do some of the stuff that the real expensive programs do, but why should i use crappy software when i can use the good ones? rather you all think it's right or not i don't care, but i think there's no reason why i should pay hundreds of dollars for these programs just to use occasionally for stuff that i don't even profit off of.

Stealing is stealing. Big or small. A little program, a big car. There is no difference. I guess if you can justify it in your mind then you can believe it is OK. I guess you missed out on that class.

ok, so if you didn't intend to BUY the game, it's ok to copy it and still enjoy the work of the people who made the game, and who rely on its sales to make a living? Nice logic there, champ.

Just because you don't physically take a copy of the game from a store shelf doesn't make it any less of a crime. I know it's hard for warez kids to wrap their ant-sized brains around this one, but: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS JUST AS PROTECTED BY LAW AS MATERIAL PROPERTY.

Copying a software program is just as bad as taking the boxed game from a store shelf. Yes, even if you "weren't gonna buy it anyway."

The people who make these games hope that the quality of the game will attract people to buy it, even those who "weren't going to." Making copies of it discourages people from buying, even those who "weren't going to" but who might have eventually decided to buy it.

well i can either not have the program and give them no money or i can have it and give them no money, so either way they aren't losing, but if i have it then i've gained someting so it's not a hard choice...

So is there ever a situation in which you WOULD buy the software rather than just use a warez version of it?

Or let me put it this way. Do you postulate then, in general, that a software company should not be compenstated for the resources they put into creating the software and compensated for its use by people?