Advanced Member spacepainter Posted April 13, 2016 Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 13, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Alemar Posted April 13, 2016 Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 13, 2016 amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted April 13, 2016 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted April 13, 2016 Yeah, all these cool Max Plugins make it hard to leave/switch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor TimmyZDesign Posted April 13, 2016 Contributor Report Share Posted April 13, 2016 So many cool plug-ins for Max, but buying so many plug-ins must be expensive, plus you have to pay for Max too. The plug-ins lock you into a payment scheme because you have to buy Max to use the plug-ins, and you have to buy the plug-ins to use Max (because Max doesn't natively give you what you want). I guess maybe it's worth it if you make enough money and you can consider it as a legitimate business expense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member spacepainter Posted April 14, 2016 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Yes can somebody please make this a requested feature in 3dcoat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted April 14, 2016 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 So many cool plug-ins for Max, but buying so many plug-ins must be expensive, plus you have to pay for Max too. The plug-ins lock you into a payment scheme because you have to buy Max to use the plug-ins, and you have to buy the plug-ins to use Max (because Max doesn't natively give you what you want). I guess maybe it's worth it if you make enough money and you can consider it as a legitimate business expense. This is true and with AD being so coercive in the upgrade policy the past few years....now going to rental only...it has me learning Blender. However, a lot of plugins, such as the ones I shared above, are very low cost. PolyFX was about $60 I believe and definitely worth it, if you do any sort of Motion Graphics work. Really brings a lot of the same capabilities as MoGraph in C4D. There is another one, called ATK, that is really powerful as well....for only $25. But the biggest thing for me is not only the AD pricing/upgrade policy, but the fact that after all these years, it STILL has no native volumetric effects tools. Not even an old, obsolete manual toolset like Afterburn or Pyrocluster. It's the only major 3D app where you can't even do a decent set of clouds out of the box, and instead you HAVE to buy a $900 plugin like FumeFX or PhoenixFD. Blender at least has decent set of fire/smoke/liquids simulation tools (would like to see them kick it up a notch or two, so that the tools are legit film/game cinematic quality), and you can now render those sims on the GPU (Blender release 2.77). You cannot render FumeFX or Phoenix FD on the GPU, so it's not even possible to do in Max, plugins or not. So, yeah...it's tough to leave, but Blender development is making it worthwhile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted April 14, 2016 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted April 14, 2016 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Not sure why the previous post didn't embed the video, but here is another try https://youtu.be/kY51pu6r4xA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor TimmyZDesign Posted April 15, 2016 Contributor Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 and you can now render those sims on the GPU (Blender release 2.77).Wow! That's great! The last time I did a smoke sim with Blender I had to send the render to Rebusfarm because it was way too slow on my machine. Rebusfarm rendered it really fast, but it cost me like $50 I think. I wonder how much faster that same scene will render on my GPU? I'll have to check it out...Anyways smoke and fire on the GPU in Blender is great news! Thanks for mentioning it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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