Re: FLASH: studio max vs. strata 3d studio (now shockwave3d)

[Michael@BTW]

While Pulse's player is very nice, their licensing is completly unaceptable,

IMO. I should own and be able to post content I create anywhere, anytime,

anyhow. If Pulse had aped Macromedia's successful stratedgy of selling the

authoring tools at a reasonable price and giving(!) the artist free control

of the publication of their content, they would indeed have owned the coming

web3d market, also IMO.


It may be too late now, as it appears the mothership is finally(!) making a

move in this area:


"Intel is teaming with Macromedia to deliver 3-D technologies to the

Internet. Intel's dynamic 3-D rendering engine will soon be included in

Macromedia's Shockwave Player, so you'll be able to view real-world 3-D on

the Web with a bandwidth-friendly solution."


http://developer.intel.com/ial/3d/index.htm


However, I do agree that Max is the first program that various Web3d tools

create importers for, and (despite its many flaws;-) the best one to learn

to get ready for this field--assuming you have the capital to buy it and the

horsepower to run it.


----- Original Message -----

From: "Wayne Townsend" <

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To: <

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Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:08 AM

Subject: Re: FLASH: studio max vs. strata 3d studio....Which is better???



> Max.

>

> The other thing to consider is that Max is the program of choice for

> Pulse3D (www.pulse3d.com).  It outputs models for Pulse to use.

>

> Pulse is the "Flash" of web 3D, IMHO.

>

> For streaming animated 3D characters and scenes over the web, nothing

> else comes close to Pulse, IMHO.

>

> /w

>

>




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