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02-22-2007, 08:43 PM
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| Trust me it won't Hurt  | Switching from Lightwave to Max OMG . . . . help . . .  ok so here is the deal . . . . The 3D boom is about to hit Montreal in a big way, . . . Good for me  . . . . Bad for me.  Good for me beause I have a chance to do some good work . . . Bad for me 'cause unfortunately Montreal is a 3d Max kinda town, and I am a die hard Lightwaver. So without saying . . . . I need to learn 3D Max if I want to get in on the party. . . . I have like 2 Months Max (no pun ) to get to a reasonable level were I can walk into ubisoft and feel comfortable about my skills. Sure I can show all the rockin Lightwave stuff I have done, but the hard line is I need to produce in Max. Does anyone here have an idea of how hard this transition would be? has anyone done it . . . I am sure there are a few SFM'ers out there who have made the change . . . tell me of your experience with the move. gp |
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02-22-2007, 09:00 PM
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| SFM Obsessed  Realname: Michael Join Date: May 2006 Location: Regensburg, Germany Age: 24
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    | Sounds like a question for Matt.  |
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02-22-2007, 09:06 PM
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| GRRRRR!!!!   Join Date: May 2006
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it'll be a pretty tricky switch from LW to max, some things you'll love, and the rest you'll probably hate | |
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02-22-2007, 09:11 PM
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| Better Dead Than Red   Realname: Andy Join Date: May 2006 Location: Syracuse NY USA Age: 24
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| you've got a good grasp of the various modeling techniques that work in just about all the programs out there, the big thing will be to figure out how to do what you already know how to do, but do it the Max way . . . did that make sense? that probbably didn't help at all  |
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02-22-2007, 09:44 PM
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| Mr. Speedy   Join Date: May 2006 Location: Montreal Age: 42
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| i would'nt be caught dead working for ubisoft in montreal..lowsy pay..stupid hours, and seated in rows like caddles for work. no way in hell. |
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02-22-2007, 11:01 PM
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| Administrator   Realname: Diogo Vincenzi Join Date: May 2006 Location: Brazil Age: 22
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| ^^^^ What al said. Haven't heard good things from Ubisoft at all...or EA for that matter. If possible, I'd avoid them and try to get a better job somewhere else. As for the switch, I have a very limited experience of LW, so I can't really help. I can say that I had a very hard time trying to make anything in LW after a few years of 3ds max. I dunno if the other way around would be the same. |
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02-23-2007, 12:57 AM
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| A little help here...  Realname: Mark Join Date: May 2006 Location: Virginia Beach Age: 48
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| If you're set on learning it go to Learning @ Your Own Pace® - lynda.com. For $25 a month (and you can do just 1 month) you get a decent video course on how to use Max 6 and 9. If you have the skills all you need is where the tools are and how they work in relation to LW. Otherwise you can google tuts and get the same ones over and over and half of them suck... edit: this isn't an ad for them, I just had good luck with them... |
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02-23-2007, 01:48 AM
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| Trust me it won't Hurt | Quote:
totally helped . . . and you are right. That's what I pretty much figured. As long as I grasp some of the techniques the switch should be a matter of association. I was just wondering if the modes of using the software were completely different from Lightwave. Quote:
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so I would be still looking at learning the software. . . . I just want to do 3D . . . . get better at it and who knows . . . maybe make a couple of dollars while I am at it . . .  gp | |||
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02-23-2007, 09:34 AM
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