How much is a 3D studio max??

[Duckers]

Has anyone heard of a program called softimage?

I heard this is a 'professional program' that you cannot buy at stores.

I also heard that this was the program used to create the movie Jurassic Park. Is this true? I don't know.

 

[BenSkywalker]

lupin-

It's worth the money, just IME people don't like to pay what it is worth. I'm not sure why e-bay shuts them down, though if you notify them in advance and can prove it is a legit copy I would imagine they wouldn't have a problem. It seems to be like the MS auctions, frequently shut down at the request of MS though I'm not sure if Discreet is asking them to or not.

Duckers-

Yes, do you have a copy you want to sell

Check out their website. I believe that they were at least partly used for JP, though I'm not positive on that. SoftImage is a bit higher end then 3DSM, comparable to Maya though most people like Maya a bit better. It started out as Irix(SGI) exclusive and then MS bought the company and ported it to NT then sold it(this was back when NT was laughed at for a 3D solution).

 

[Pretender]

I must admit something also........
































I can't find ISOs.

 

[Mday]

<< What's the difference between the retail and educational version?? >>



depends actually... some programs are exactly the same, differing in the license only... upon leaving the educational institution, it is illegal to use it, that is, a violation of the license...

others are different, educational\academic having some of the features removed...

sometimes there is also a difference in documentation, ie, the manual

 

[Mday]

lupin, if i had the cash, job, and knew more about anything, i'd make you an offer you could refuse... but i am under neither of these three categories.

i will probably wind up needing to learn to use it in 2 or 3 years...

 

[IBhacknU]

mmmmmmm SGI

 

[lupin]

Does anybody know of any newsgroup/message boards where I can find potential buyers for this thing?

 

[Duckers]

Yes, do you have a copy you want to sell

Ben,

I hope I did
I haven't seen this program any where but I know it exists !!!!

 

[DABANSHEE]

Actually for a while they had non-comercial licenses for 3DMax for nothing, in Australia. But it was a very strick license, it basically meant that Kinectix had the commercial right to anything you designed on 3DMax.

So really it was just for students/people/who ever to muck about with &amp; learn to use it, on their home computers.

I've still got that CD lying arround, I got it at a trade thingo. It was not date restricted, nore did the installation countdown &amp; stop working after 30 days or something. There were no non-working features in it either, as in it was definitly the full featured version, though it may have been one revision behind the then current commercial realise.

BTW, a mate of mine has a student version of some CAD program, &amp; every time you printed something up with it, it would print a little thing saying 'created with the student varient of autocad so this drawing cannot be used for commercial purposes' (or something like that) on the corner of the picture. Even if you saved the file &amp; printed it using another program, he reckoned the tag would still be there, yet it never appears on the computer screen. Its like its embedded in the file format or something.

 

[BenSkywalker]

&quot;Does anybody know of any newsgroup/message boards where I can find potential buyers for this thing?&quot;

Ivory Grail would be the best person to ask that I know of(not to mention knowing a lot more about the software then I do, that is what he uses). He hangs around on the 3D design boards and I know that several of them have sale/trade sections(though IME they are a bit slower to get responses then AT for obvious reasons).

 

[geno]

<< I pity the foo' who buy a PS2 for $1500! >>


Well, now you can afford it if you sell that software!


Seriously, take it to E-Bay, it'll catch a nice price there.

 

[Wedesdo]

ebayers won't buy it.

only companies buy software like this.

the rest rip off it from warez sites

 

[Wedesdo]

and besides, it has been opened, which dramtically decreases its value.

if it wan't opened, you probably could have returned it to Best Buy or Staples and got $5000 in store credit.

 

[BenSkywalker]

&quot;ebayers won't buy it.

only companies buy software like this.

the rest rip off it from warez sites&quot;

I have several thousand dollars worth of software that I bought out of my own pocket that I use at home. If I was looking for a copy of 3DSM, I would buy it for $1K from Lupin(and I have been know to purchase applications on e-bay when they are a good legit deal).

Already having a sh!t load of money tied up in another app and pug-ins(base applications are the groundwork, then you need several hundred to several thousand dollars worth of pug ins depending), I don't feel like dropping that kind of money on a different app and starting over again(unless it was real cheap, like say SoftImage for $50).

I did just run through e-bay's active auctions and found two plug in packages for 3DSM listed, both were shut down. I'm not sure if this is Discreet telling them to pull the plug, but they are even shutting down plug-in auctions so it may be a waste trying to get it sold(particularly if you are not an established trader).