#NT, 3ds, and DEC Alpha
18-Jul-95 01:27:13
Sb: #180618-#NT, 3ds, and DEC Alpha
Fm: Bradley J. Artigue 75352,3716
To: Dennis Good 72260,1014
To be honest, I am disappointed in the lack of progress in 3D Studio.
Let's face reality; most of us used Release 2 and now use Release
4…and what has improved? You may say "a lot", but Autodesk markets
3DS as a stand-alone modeling environment (I used to be a multimedia
reseller). But without AutoCAD, I find 3D Studio to be quite a
burden…for example, I can't even snap to a line, or do a trim (know
what I mean?)
What I find with 3D Studio is that we have a very good system for
applying materials and creating animations, but what I would like to
see is a complete modeling system. I may be overstepping "reality",
but I would love to see a robust 2D to 3D modeling environment…a
kind of CAD to 3D environment. Just some sort of standardization
between AutoCAD and 3D Studio.
Most of all, I hate being left in the dark…I make part of my living
with 3D Studio and to be quite honest, if they don't announce a
future to the package soon, I will start looking at Lightwave and SGI
for results.
It costs a lot more to wait for results