3ds max poll

I'm curious as to which versions of 3ds max the community has access to and/or uses in modding. Doesn't matter if you're modding CE or whatever-the-fuck-other-engine.

Also specify if your license is perpetual (good forever) or student (good for only 3 years) based

Votes are public, as I really don't see why anyone should be worried about privacy with this, and if I poll on other sites I want to be sure I'm not double counting people.

Thanks

edit: Just assume the "3ds max 9" option implies 9 or earlier (i.e., 8, etc)

Student I have:,2014,2015

Perpetual 2011, 2013

maya :c

Gmax. 10/10

I technically have max 7 and 8 on a perpetual license... If perpetual means stolen.

I've got 2013 on student licence and 2009 on perpetual, someone put a copy on Ebay thinking it was student...


...it wasn't :iamafag:

I used to have a perpetual license for 3ds max 2008 but now the damn thing just shits itself on windows 8.1 x64. Recently I was able to obtain a student license for 2015. Plus, I sucked horribly at making portals resulting in tool bitching at everything i tried. Everything was a bit on the high poly side so nothing could make it ingame without portals. I never released anything under my name except Esther that was modeled by a friend (did all the tagging/scripting and debugging for ghost bsp). Fairly old map that could of had potential for those that like very large maps.

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Plus, I sucked horribly at making portals resulting in tool bitching at everything i tried.

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I could give you a hand, I've got it down to a science. PM me

ON TOPIC: Max 8

Student, I use 2012 and 2014. I only use 2012 because unwrapping isn't completely broken like it is in 2014.

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Originally Posted by stunt_man

I could give you a hand, I've got it down to a science. PM me

ON TOPIC: Max 8[/COLOR]

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That would be nice but it'll be nicer if you sent me a tutorial. I've been dealing with some temp problems in my computer with the already hot days here. Plus, I'm in the process of handling a university transfer and some shitty medical issues.

Oh fuck I think I screwed up. Max 8 is not Max 2008, right?
Ugh you wanted us to put it as Max 9 mother fuck I saw the 8 and said "YEAH THAT ONE."
Weird seeing so many people with Max 2014/2015. I really don't see much of a difference after 2012 with things really.

Max 8 on a perpetual license since 2008 or so.
Max 2012 on a Student license I have from 2014-2017.

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Originally Posted by ODX

Weird seeing so many people with Max 2014/2015. I really don't see much of a difference after 2012 with things really.

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A lot of us have student licenses. There's no reason not to upgrade when we can get a new 3 year license every year for free.

2014 in my experience handles high poly models a lot better than 2012. That's the biggest reason I've been using it. But yeah, being on a student license pretty much lets us upgrade any time.

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Originally Posted by Rentafence

A lot of us have student licenses. There's no reason not to upgrade when we can get a new 3 year license every year for free.

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Max's 2k series brought about a wave of huge stability fixes to get things like Graphite working. Since then, there's not as much of a stability increase over, say, Max 6 -> 7. The glorious workingness of Max 8 is found in all the 2k versions, except say the first one. Unless you see some new feature you want (such as python in 2015), it's not a high priority as it once was. If you've got it, yeah there's no reason but then again there's no reason to immediately grab new versions; especially when add-ons/plugins are done through the SDK and need to be compiled on the new version's SDK.

The biggest immediate reason to grab 2k14 is that you can use C# to interface with their sdk (they've licensed a wrapper from ephere). I was going to make an exporter for JMS's using my C# JMS classes from 3+ years ago, but like in typical autodesk fashion they suck with their documentation. Thus, I am using 3ds max 9 but I also have access to 2014.

I use 3ds Max Design 2013 for CMT work, but I think I have 2012 as well. Both are perpetual licenses. I haven't bothered with 2014, but if the uv unwrapping really is broken then I might not worry about it.

MAKE A FUCKING PLUGIN FOR MAYA YOU SCRUBLORD.

I love you.

#bump

Would that make you come back to TCE:Evolved? :3

Maya is for differently abled people and genderqueers.

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Originally Posted by Dwood

The biggest immediate reason to grab 2k14 is that you can use C# to interface with their sdk (they've licensed a wrapper from ephere). I was going to make an exporter for JMS's using my C# JMS classes from 3+ years ago, but like in typical autodesk fashion they suck with their documentation. Thus, I am using 3ds max 9 but I also have access to 2014.

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2015 integrated Python support, I believe.
Didn't know about the c# bit. Link to what 'little' docs there are?

I still had the bookmark: http://www.ephere.com/autodesk/max/

Downloads haven't changed since Jan 2011, so...

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Originally Posted by Kornman00

I still had the bookmark: http://www.ephere.com/autodesk/max/

Downloads haven't changed since Jan 2011, so...

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Remember, .NET SDK integration in current 3ds max- Autodesk purchased the license to use Ephere's wrappers and have updated/modified it accordingly. Try this here:

http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX...2BB25B9C23_htm

Edit: Apparently they updated the docs for 2015. I haven't looked much of the updated sdk up, but hopefully the documentation is more useful. Though, from what I looked at, it's as cryptic as ever.

I kinda want to try out 2015.