kenpimentel Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/ken/3ds_max_design_2011_announced-1 Also, this means that our product center is up and running with more info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 sweeeeeet thanx Ken maybe a typeO in post "any customer in the world with 3ds Max 2011 can cross-grade to 3ds Max Design 2011" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenpimentel Posted March 25, 2010 Author Share Posted March 25, 2010 sweeeeeet thanx Ken maybe a typeO in post "any customer in the world with 3ds Max 2011 can cross-grade to 3ds Max Design 2011" Glad you like it! What is wrong with that statement? It looks correct to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 oh, sorry, hehe, i see the word "design" in there. The excitement made me miss read! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianKitts Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 What is wrong with that statement? It looks correct to me. The problem with the statement was that it should have been made when Autodesk split the product line into two flavors. You have any idea the time you could have saved us???? all the thread posting on which one to choose.....and it would have avoided the autodesk bashing for spliting the product and making us choose! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Does that mean you can install both and flip-flop the license? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiXeL_MoNKeY Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 No, they are independently licensed now. It does mean you can have both installed, but you would need a license of each one. -Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 "any customer in the world with 3ds Max 2011 can cross-grade to 3ds Max Design 2011" Then whats cross-grading? You have to pay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihabkal Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Until May 1st, 2010, any customer in the world with 3ds Max 2011 can cross-grade to 3ds Max Design 2011 for zero dollars (excluding any shipping/handling costs). After May 1st, 2010, the cost of cross-grading will become 10% of the SRP of the software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter M. Gruhn Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 I gotta get me a video card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hunt Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Does anyone know what the new mentalray2011 features are? Looking forward to a package to arrive jhv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanGrover Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Does anyone know what the new mentalray2011 features are? Looking forward to a package to arrive jhv Seriously, the MR upgrades are the thing I look forward to most!! That said, a node-based material editor does sound nice. It'll also be interesting to know how well the compositor works. I always assumed the ones bundled in with 3d software couldn't ever be as good as standalone node-based compositors, but I have a friend who uses the Xsi one religiously and he really knows what he's doing, so let's hope Autodesk can prove me wrong! (Note, I've never used Toxic) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trick Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 I thought there wouldn't be much differences featurewise between the 2 Max flavours, but the privileges seem to take different roads: Exposure Daylight Analysis, Civil Viz Extension. This may not seem a big deal...yet, but for freelancers doing both Game, Development and Architecture, I really wonder how this will end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clanger Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 I gotta get me a video card. Just what I was thinking but which one on a tight budget? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyca Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 I thought there wouldn't be much differences featurewise between the 2 Max flavours, but the privileges seem to take different roads: Exposure Daylight Analysis, Civil Viz Extension. This may not seem a big deal...yet, but for freelancers doing both Game, Development and Architecture, I really wonder how this will end. absolutely!! this was a non sense to split Max since they could have push Maya for game and movies and architecture is not a market that will last forever, we all are doing other stuff to complete our revenues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenpimentel Posted March 26, 2010 Author Share Posted March 26, 2010 I thought there wouldn't be much differences featurewise between the 2 Max flavours, but the privileges seem to take different roads: Exposure Daylight Analysis, Civil Viz Extension. This may not seem a big deal...yet, but for freelancers doing both Game, Development and Architecture, I really wonder how this will end. The key word is "yet". The fear is of the future, not what exists and has existed for 3 releases now. If you don't need the SDK, then use 3ds Max Design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Just what I was thinking but which one on a tight budget? Well now that they're finally adding a GPU renderer, that question is a bit more complicated isn't it - a gamer card for Direct3D and GPU rendering. From Ken's page, it can be nVidia or ATi (so maybe it uses OpenCL?...) and can be a consumer card (but the pro cards will get priority for getting certified, for whatever that's worth) but I think it's going to take a while before any benchmarks become widely available. Maybe we just need to do our own benchmarks... "CGArchitect: We get kicked out of computer stores so you don't have to!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karuna.a Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Quick silver is better than Vray? looking forward the updates... cheers, Karuna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Buckley Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Quick silver is better than Vray? looking forward the updates... cheers, Karuna ha ha, a whole new argument now instead of mental ray and vray it depends what your trying to do. quicksilver is better at hardware based rendering yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 From the preliminary info it looks like Quicksilver would be better for quick stuff and Vray would be better for very high quality. You can never just say that one renderer is "better" than another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Remember that VrayRT is only using CPU's at this point, the GPU version is supposed to be much much faster. Unfortunately it doesn't look like the GPU version will come out until Vray 2.0 is ready and we won't know how it compares until then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Well, with Quick silver you still have to wait for calculation before you see anything and with vrayRT you see the changes take effect instantaneously but for now I don't care about these little battles going on, MAX 2011 IS OUT!! and we should be talking about the the cool new features. This release probably is the first one that I really can't wait to use, going in and digging around seeing what max can do for me. I'll probably dive into the painting features first -- Holding thumbs for if it is possible to double paint two textures (texture and texture bump) at the same time! Ken?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 I hope they have some good video tutorials for all these new features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenpimentel Posted March 26, 2010 Author Share Posted March 26, 2010 but for now I don't care about these little battles going on, MAX 2011 IS OUT!! and we should be talking about the the cool new features. This release probably is the first one that I really can't wait to use, going in and digging around seeing what max can do for me. I'll probably dive into the painting features first -- Holding thumbs for if it is possible to double paint two textures (texture and texture bump) at the same time! Ken?? Glad you're so excited! Unfortunately, the workflow is single texture at this time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Nuts..... (clicking fingers in the air!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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