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Miscellaneous
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General Discussion
Single App crap
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28 May 2007How come zbrush and other progs have come up with lets be honest incredible modeling tools and brushes, yet the major cg animation apps have us still fiddling around with single verts.
these days if I had to do it all from the begining I would just get zbrush and animation master and have $3000 to spend on Sub D's and a renderer and prolly a carribean cruise.
Just 'cos all them tools are under one roof dont make it easier and better.
What D'y'all think
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29 May 2007Agreed! (sort of)
Although I love my max animation tools, I definitely wish they'd implement some sort of painterly z-brush style modelling tool (oh and I'm sorry...although polygon painting in the edit-poly settings is cool, when compared to z-brush it just doesn't cut it
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29 May 2007I hope they don't even try to do that. There is no way they can compete and max wasn't built to handle that kind of job.
I say leave it to the ones that do it best, and I for one welcome this idea of modular software. I just wish standards would be set as far as scripting languages and file formats. This would make things so much easier, and eventually it would be really easy to jump from one program to another. -
29 May 2007
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29 May 2007Well, if you take a look at a program like Lightwave for instance, they have gone for the "one modular package" type of thing, and it sucks. I hate having to go from one program to the other within one package, it's too much like Adobe, because in 3d, your assets should be readily available to you to model, texture, and animate. Most programs nowadays have python support, and that is good because it's a robust, easy to use language that is capable of plenty. I think that there would be too many problems with interoperability if they mixed zbrush into max or maya or whatever. It uses an entirely different way of reading your screenspace, and runs on java. So you'd have a tough time getting stuff to go back and forth within the module, and it would take forever for it to work correctly within another program. I don't know, I think its great as a standalone application and it would be a waste to package it inside of another one so that only users of one package would be able to use it. Because that's the way that i'm sure it would go, not that it matters, because Autodesk owns everything. lol
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