should I upgrade to max 9...?

[swiss_cheese9797]

Within the context of the .smd and .vta exporters, I was wondering if it would be worth it to get max 9. I am currently using 6 and the exporters from Cannonfodder work like a dream. However, in the last few years, Max has had some additional features that I would like to make use of, such as pelt mapping.

For those of you who have used the max 9 .smd and .vta exporters, how well do they work? I would drive my car into a wall if I did a whole bunch of work on a model that cant export because of some obscure error. Plus, I hear that older versions of max dont take kindley to opening .max files from newer versions. Thanks.

 

[mindless_moder]

you could just upgrade to 8 it has peltmapping ... or atleast i think it does :S.

 

[swiss_cheese9797]

Are there exporters for max 8? Plus there are other features new in 9 I wanna try out.

 

[Shinobi]

max 9 is a godnsend


they fixed so much legacy stuff and it's way less ctrash prone..


thing is most of the stuff I love about it are for work and not games... like the final gather speed up and preview etc


but if you have to upgrad then go for max 9.. I dont even thinjk you have the option of buying max 8 or previous versions

 

[Stormy]

I dont know if there are any smd exporters for max 9 yet. Wasnt last time i checked.

 

[Shinobi]

I dont know if there are any smd exporters for max 9 yet. Wasnt last time i checked.

www.wunderboy.org


you can get them there

 

[Stormy]

Oh, fantastic

Only came out a few days agow! woot

 

[Shinobi]

they've been around for a couple motnhs.. that is an update to fix a normal problem that people were having with it (it worked fine for me)


also there are some other cools tools for source on there