hehe, let's see what's happen with the aquirement of maya by Autodesk...
BTW, it depends a lot in the country or region. Where I live, is all bout Max. Yet to work at one where they ask me for Maya, for games. It's even forcedly Biped when aiming to an animation job...
I guess in other places would be all bout Maya.
I saw some stats long ago and was yet max dominating in games, but sincerelly I dunno (and if now it's all a single company, go guess what'll happen...) Maya and xsi allways dominated the film and tv fields... Look, some google finds :
"at companies working primarily in feature film and high-end commercial production (jobs not primarily focused on interactive media or games"
http://www.3drender.com/jobs/jobcount.htm
lol, can't find charts for games companies...
BTW, I do allways in jobs use max for animation...for level integration...lightmaps...
but mainly I use other faster organic modelers. Other uvmapping soultions. Usually free or cheap.
BTW, Max 8 has certain very interesting improves, spacially in biped...Go download the video, is quite self explanatory...Or well, those interested in max animation.
If you'd ask me I'd LOVE to animate with XSI at work..
Who knows if even Blender when final oficial 2.40 is released, indeed,was playing with alpha 2 automatic IK and ghosting (similiar to my xsi one, hehe) ...but go convince a boss. Ha! ;)
I think yup, Max is a bit crashy but not really something to worry about...
And is quite productive tool, a neck saver in games. I handled a bit Maya for level editing at certain company...I liked it too, but of course, I preferred Max as more knowledge bout it...and we had more free plugins and middleware...Though the coders made our own plugins and c++ stuff for both , by then...
For modelling, anything does, actually, is a matter of choice...though I think some tools are more capable than others, and some faster than others...
So, I like Max. And I also like XSI and Blender. Yet though keep prefering the viewport navigation of Max , or Wings...
Bout the zoom issue, doesn't hapen I think in User view, only in Perspective...
BTW, it depends a lot in the country or region. Where I live, is all bout Max. Yet to work at one where they ask me for Maya, for games. It's even forcedly Biped when aiming to an animation job...
I guess in other places would be all bout Maya.
I saw some stats long ago and was yet max dominating in games, but sincerelly I dunno (and if now it's all a single company, go guess what'll happen...) Maya and xsi allways dominated the film and tv fields... Look, some google finds :
"at companies working primarily in feature film and high-end commercial production (jobs not primarily focused on interactive media or games"
http://www.3drender.com/jobs/jobcount.htm
lol, can't find charts for games companies...
BTW, I do allways in jobs use max for animation...for level integration...lightmaps...
but mainly I use other faster organic modelers. Other uvmapping soultions. Usually free or cheap.
BTW, Max 8 has certain very interesting improves, spacially in biped...Go download the video, is quite self explanatory...Or well, those interested in max animation.
If you'd ask me I'd LOVE to animate with XSI at work..
Who knows if even Blender when final oficial 2.40 is released, indeed,was playing with alpha 2 automatic IK and ghosting (similiar to my xsi one, hehe) ...but go convince a boss. Ha! ;)
I think yup, Max is a bit crashy but not really something to worry about...
And is quite productive tool, a neck saver in games. I handled a bit Maya for level editing at certain company...I liked it too, but of course, I preferred Max as more knowledge bout it...and we had more free plugins and middleware...Though the coders made our own plugins and c++ stuff for both , by then...
For modelling, anything does, actually, is a matter of choice...though I think some tools are more capable than others, and some faster than others...
So, I like Max. And I also like XSI and Blender. Yet though keep prefering the viewport navigation of Max , or Wings...
Bout the zoom issue, doesn't hapen I think in User view, only in Perspective...