For soooo many reasons. The root of which is them trying to do things the way they did 10 years ago because “there are some people that are used to that” (IE the user interface is a complete mess). That and Max crashing all of the time when it doesn’t know how to handle what you give it. So yeah, terrible user interface and poor stability.
However, I really like maxscript for the power it gives you and for all the sweet utilities.
Looks like I’m going to have this love hate relationship with it for quite a while because our studio is using Max as its principle modeling package.
Why can’t we just use Maya, Softimage, or even Blender *sigh*
October 21st, 2008 on 8:20 pm
Yes, I am right there with you, I like to say , I hate all of the 3d software equally.
I like maxscript for UI and its more OO like ability, but it sucks that its not consistent and its running on top of MAX.
Maya has its share of issues and often simple things are just not there with out scripting and knowing the software but at least MEL commands are named exactly what the script listener prints out.
November 3rd, 2008 on 6:01 pm
Wow Mike, you’ve been a busy blogger recently!
I hate Max more than you. I’m finally starting to do something about it. I’ve made a couple threads at my forum about it:
http://tech-artists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=181 and http://tech-artists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=206 , please check it out if you have time.
I don’t know if I ever told you I started a forum for technical artists- if I haven’t, I’ve started a forum for tech artists!
You seem as lively and active as ever.
-Rob
December 30th, 2009 on 10:53 am
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