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Maya
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19 Jun 2007been working with nothing but maya for 5 months now. i'm homesick for 3ds max! i find myself in lectures gonig you could do it so much easier in max!!! but maya has more customizatino and such. i dunno i guess 3ds max is a hella lot more user friendly and maya.......not so much.
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19 Jun 2007I disagree, I have no idea how to use max, maya is swift and easy.
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Will J 215 posts20 Jun 2007Hehe, I'm in the completely opposite situation. I want to use maya in college! I suppose it all depends on which one you started out with and are more comfortable with. I dont like the way max is layed out, I can't find half the menu's. But then I haven't really attacked it properly yet, I'm going to work through all the tuts over summer. But at the moment, I prefer maya. -
20 Jun 2007i'm starting maya next year at uny, but i am scared
i like 3dsmax, and it's only when i start having fun with it that i have to switch.
your post, dear clone, is not making me feel better! -
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Will J 215 posts21 Jun 2007
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21 Jun 2007I did the switch to Maya almost 2 years ago and haven't looked back since. That doesn't really mean much though, it's simply because that's what I use at work. They both (all) have some great features - and you'll often find yourself wishing a certain tool from one package was in the other.
I think Z really nailed it though... in terms of approachability Max wins hands down and I'm glad I popped my 3D cherry with it (oh, actually it was TrueSpace 3... but I was just an innocent kid, led astray at the time), I think I would have been overwhelmed and lost wth Maya. But now, having got to a far greater depth in terms of character setup I don't think I'd want to go back to Max and use the wire parameters and reaction manager (I always got a little lost with the wire param thing...)
But at the end of the day it's just a tool. I don't go worrying about the make and model of a hammer when I'm banging in a nail
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Will J 215 posts21 Jun 2007Thats very true, it's like learning languages. Once you learn how to learn a language, you can learn many.
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21 Jun 2007HAHAHHA...........Zack your killing me dude
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Jonathan 480 posts28 Jul 2007Just wait, soon Maya and Max will become Mayax!
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Will J 215 posts04 Dec 2007I know this is slightly necroposting, buuuuut:
I've really been going at max lately, and I am totally gobsmacked at how different they are. It really is a totally different way of thinking! I'm having a bit of a hard time with it, also I've picked a suicidally hard project for my assignment. Things I like so far: all tools are accessible from the objects menu. Dislikes: each object exists in its own little bubble and HATES interacting with other objects in the scene. Its going ok I guess, and the switch has not been as painful as I thought, but I still have a long way to go..... -
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Will J 215 posts05 Dec 2007Yes I also discovered that, its pretty handy. Everything in max is super organised I'll give it that.
But there has to be a way to extrude faces in the world axis, surely? The only way I can do it is to eyeball it, which to a physical modelmaker seems nausiatingly innacurate. You just can't get away with that kind of thing in rapid prototyping and such. There doesn't seem to be an option in the extrude option box, have I missed something? -
05 Dec 2007Yep
...you just missed it....
Apply an "edit poly" modifier to your object, select your faces, within the edit poly options (with your faces selection) find the "Extrude" button and click it....now you've got some settings to play with
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05 Dec 2007Just wait until you start discovering things you like about it, then it gets easier. The first couple weeks are spent complaining and being upset that Maya does it better, than it starts to shift into, "Oh whoa, Maya can't do that..."
Navigation was the hardest thing to grasp for me, but it's easy now. I can use Max at work then come home and use Maya with no trouble. Just practice a lot! -
Will J 215 posts06 Dec 2007Thats the plan!
I have a virtual modelling assignment to do, for everyone else its just basic basic stuff, but for me my tutors said I would never get away with handing basic stuff in because itwould only take me a night (which was flattering, in an odd way.) So I have to do some insanely hard modelling and mapping etc on max. Bah, I would have had to learn it eventually anyway.
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