Best tool for space battle's?

[Lukemax]

Hi all, I was wondering what in your opinion was the best tool for the 3D space battle's animation and so forth, 3DS Max or Newtek's Lightwave 3d or another program, I currently use 3DS Max and have reasonable experiance with that, but i thought as Newtek's Lightwave 3d is used quite alot i thought maybe its easier sort of format to use?

Thanks
Joergen

[L2K]

and what about particule flow ?

for a big scale space battle, i think you might want to have a try on massive.
you can set the AI to move, behave shoot poursuit like space fighter pilot would.

[Guerrilla]

Your brain-mousehand-interface and knowledge of cinematography. Organisational and analytical skills help. Computing power will probably be a limiting factor.

Application has very little to do with the end result, if you know how to use it.

[Darkness]

Just use the "addSpaceBattle" button in Max, it's in the "awesome effects" menu ...

[spudmonkey]

Originally Posted by Darkness

Just use the "addSpaceBattle" button in Max, it's in the "awesome effects" menu ...

It's a bit overused though... Scenes that use it now appear very generic mate. I'm working on V2 of the button which will have a pew-pew-pew-BANG option

[Northern_Mind]

Ey Darkness it's under scripts right ? i've been searching all day and can't find it....

[L2K]

no. you just need to customize your UI to have access to that fantastic function.
the only thing about it is thats random and who wins is random as well.

[JeffrySG]

Originally Posted by spudmonkey

It's a bit overused though... Scenes that use it now appear very generic mate. I'm working on V2 of the button which will have a pew-pew-pew-BANG option

I've been waiting for that update!!! sweeeeettttttt

When you get some time can you update the "Fix original crappy script" plugin as well??

[spudmonkey]

I'm a button maker, not a miracle worker!

[Berkut]

so you're just going to change the button and not update the script with a pew-pew-pew-BANG function? lol