Hi! Thumbs up and keep trying! After some 5 years with Realsoft I couldn't use any other 3D software anymore. The object/material hierarchy is probably the best invention since sliced bread (I'm not sure if other 3D programs use the same kind of interface).
-Jouni 2009/7/10 Henry Tjernlund <[email protected]>: > I really like Cinema 4D. Back about 5 years ago I was teaching at a > community college (part-time) and was looking for a better program to > suggest to the school to teach. (They were using Bryce at that time.) > I tried several try-out programs and tried to see what I could do > purely by intuition without a manual. I couldn't seem to do anything > with Lightwave. Same for another program which i can not recall > anymore. But Cinema 4D I could figure out part of it in a couple > hours. Back then Maxon was nice to its prospective user base and gave > all kinds of discounts (like C4D 6CE version for a small fraction of > its original price.) But they don't do that anymore. Also I now don't > teach any longer. The school downsized its part-time faculty after > budget cuts. So I no longer qualify for academic discounts. > > My experience in 3D is that I am self taught. I am 50 now and when I > was in college I took the one and only computer graphics course. > (about 1980) In that class we shared a single PDP-11 machine and drew > lines, boxes, and circles using a graphics oriented version of BASIC. > We stored our programs on 8" floppies. :-) (Hey, at least it was a > step up from punch cards.) > > Yes, RealSoft looks to have some power, but it looks like you have to > be somewhat of a motor-head and open the hood to fiddle with torquing > bolts and otherwise get your hands greasy to access it. For teaching > 3D I would not use RealSoft. For personal (and maybe professional) > use, Im still going to give it a try. > > Be prepared for many more questions. And please, do not take some of > my criticisms as an insult. > > -- > -- > Henry Tjernlund > http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?username=henrytj > http://www.modelmayhem.com/HenryTjernlund > http://imdb.com/name/nm2519729/ > http://www.myspace.com/henrytj > http://henrytj.deviantart.com/ >
