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Originally posted by matt_vinoir:
jeff is right. i seem to hear a lot of lightsape users slag off viz 4.
Viz own lightscape and they aren't dumb.
lightscape will be gone the way of the dodo.
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More correctly _Autodesk_ owns Lightscape, and they may, in fact, be dumb. I have never gotten the impression that Autodesk is primarily concerned with providing their customers with the best software, just getting their shareholders the best dividend. They have a long history of buying companies that make better products and burying them. If Lightscape becomes a non-breeding population (as seems to be the case) it will not be because it was not good enough for its market. It's not extinction, it's murder.
I still have not been able to get a good look at either Viz4 or the new Max. It's too expensive for me at the moment, but I suppose I must get it sooner or later. But I hear that it does not have the robust 'blocks' support of Lightscape, which is important to me. What I want to know about is whether Viz/Max have viewing controls like Lightscape. Especially, can it do a panned perspective, both in the viewport and as a saved view file and rendered out without resorting to workarounds like the earlier versions of Viz/Max?
Finally, Viz had always been the little sister of Max, with a subset of features targeted at architects to get them the functions of Max they might need without the full Max price. In the case of Viz4 it appears it was a trial run for Max5. In adoptions, the little sister can come before the big brother.
Well, my horse is pulling the cart of my current rendering project through the backroads of my computer, I should walk over and deliver a load of images to my client.
Ernest Burden III