#TOPAS vs 3DS
Not meaning to jump all over you, or anything, but… as I mentioned
some time ago, I spent SEVERAL hours (days worth) at a high end
animation house that uses primarily a $40K version of Wavefront, and
was surprised by the revelation: bugs, crashes, clunky user
interface (as far as I'm concerned) you name it. There is even a
binder notebook devoted to listing bugs. And Composer crashed the
SGI it was running on twice. I still think Wavefront is incredible,
and if I had the market and resources, would run out and buy a copy
tommorow. I'm not quite sure your standards for $3000 software are
very realistic.