At one of my gigs I have Cinema 4D and it works well with Director. In fact, learning Max got to be a little too much for me with my time restraints now, and I found C4D to be extrememly intuitive. I mean even today I kind of stumbled upon how to create splines form bitmap images and extrude them using NURBS and was able to create exactly what I wanted within about 2-3 minutes after using the help file for literally 20 seconds. (Although Director 3D does not support NURBS).
But also the exporting to W3D format for Director works very well. I have exported about 20 or so models into Director just playing with it over the past week and it is very easy and rewarding. The models, lights, textures and everything will be intact, although I have not tried exporting animations into Director yet, but the Shockwave export dialog options reveal that it should be possible. One caution: terrains export to W3D very very slowly and you should reduce polygons before exporting. As polygon count is always an issue, and they have a polygon reduction tool that you slap onto a model kind of like a child object and you can decrease the polygon count of a particular model, or you can decrease the geometry resolution for all models in the Shockwave export dialog options. Plus, as Grimmwerks pointed out to me, there is a 30 day free trial for Cinema 4D...I would highly advise that, then you can decide. Dag. I just remembered that this is really a lingo list, so this is technically off-topic. sorry yall but I hope this helps...maybe it will turn into a lingo question later. hth Nmuta _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
