Jeff Mottle Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 http://www.cgarchitect.com/news/Article249.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 you americans always wake up too late http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/showthread.php?t=6574 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted August 2, 2004 Author Share Posted August 2, 2004 The Press release was embargoed until 8am Eastern time here. (BTW I'm in Canada not America.) ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 i stand corrected. i mean you Canadians (it's probably like calling a Welshman an Englishman ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jurX Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 I think for a complete version update the new features are not soo good. Yea,..but I am not a max user,...and so I dont know how a maxer think about it,.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 The Press release was embargoed until 8am Eastern time here. (BTW I'm in Canada not America.) ;-) I have always heard people in South America get tee'd off when the U.S. is referred to as where Americans live. Technically the term Americans refers to everyone living in North/South America. Although it could have been my High School geography teacher making things up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 I think for a complete version update the new features are not soo good. Yea,..but I am not a max user,...and so I dont know how a maxer think about it,.... I guess I hope they worked on refining the code, and any known bugs as well as adding a few new features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzzy Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Not for architects looks like . May be edit poly modifier but not worth for 795$ upgrade. If they integrate Nvidia FX realtime rendering support with Mental Ray 3.3 which I want to see and read more.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisE Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 it dose support the quadro rendering, but there not much else in this release. the list of new features seem to be getting shorter and shorter with each new version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbr Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Very disappointing updates, at least for me. Pretty much NOTHING to warrant an upgrade. What sucks is that I still have 5.1 so it'll cost me $1300. I am really losing faith in Max. No backwards compatibility (that is in every other program costing more than $25) so I am screwed unless I cough up the cash. Does anyone know anything about the Bionatics plugin that came with 6? Does anyone use it? I hoped to see some stuff on here, but it looks like no one uses it. Does it still come with 7? OR should I buy 6 now to get the plugin for free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Alexander Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Waaaaaaaaaaaah, Whine cry b!t Always when ever any AutoDesk new version is released. The solution is simple- don't buy it and stop torturing yourselves. Other possible solutions -Discreet can outsource (overseas) the programming or the rewrite of the entire program -Stop focusing on the demographic that buys 50-1000 seats at a crack using it in a cutting edge environment -Do an Enron Side Step and stop obeying the SEC regulations to please it's customers & cut costs -Give the program away for a year, tank the stock and it's ability to fund it's operations, just so the entire world can use it-not that Discreet (div) or AutoDesk would be around after to service the software. -Maybe some government could help us pay for it, yeah the "Starving CG Viz artists grant so they can but Max7 upgrade" Bill. Now all we have to do is lobby the politicians........ :rolleyes:Think I'm trollin' a bit here. The price is hard to swallow but what can you do? WDA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 we have a subscription plan, so we will get the upgrade for free. lucky me. now whether i notice a difference between my current version and the new version is another story. it wil probably be minimal if it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Mann Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 we have a subscription plan, so we will get the upgrade for free. Same here, but I think that once it arrives I will probably just stick it in a drawer until the plug-ins that I use are upgraded too. I jumped straight from v5 to v6 becasue I thought that I would be doing every job using Mental Ray forever after but it didn't quite work out that way. I could just as easily be using Max 5. The one interesting point that I noticed were the improved snaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Same here, but I think that once it arrives I will probably just stick it in a drawer until the plug-ins that I use are upgraded too. I jumped straight from v5 to v6 becasue I thought that I would be doing every job using Mental Ray forever after but it didn't quite work out that way. I could just as easily be using Max 5. The one interesting point that I noticed were the improved snaps. will the plug-ins need upgrade? ..i thought the reason they needed upgraded for version 6 was because discreet changed the way the were coded or something like that. max 5 was the first version i used, so there game of upgraded is not familiar to me yet. do you typically need to upgrade your plug-ins with each release? vray gave its users a free upgrade of its plug-in from 5 to 6, but onyx tree charged its customers for the upgrade from 5 to 6. any idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abicalho Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Plugins for 6 should work on 7 without the need of a recompile. Alexander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Eloy Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 I have always heard people in South America get tee'd off when the U.S. is referred to as where Americans live. Technically the term Americans refers to everyone living in North/South America. Although it could have been my High School geography teacher making things up.Indeed. America is the whole continent, not a country. Even north-americans is not 100% accurate, since canadians also live in North America, for example. Anyway, for the new Max, I'd risk saying it's a tremendous leap for the game industry. Unfortunately, not for us, folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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